Do you get mad when you know you're right, but people don't believe you?

@Zalvor (727)
Turkey
April 25, 2007 4:18pm CST
Today I showed my mother the software Google Earth, and I wanted to show her where our relatives lived in Croatia. Both of us know the place pretty well, she used to live there and I spent my childhood there. Recently my uncle moved to his new home and my mother has been there a few times. I've been there last summer. I wanted to find where he lived by using Google Earth, which I did, but my mother was not convinced. She pointed to an entirely different direction, which I know is not the case. I kept explaining her over and over again and she nodded at times, more to please me, which just got me angrier, because I saw she was not convinced! I became frustrated. Finally she was convinced, but I became tired. What do you do when you know you're correct, but people just don't agree with you? What is the best thing to do? What's true is true, but is it worth proving? Or is it a waste of time and effort? What do you think?
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@kyran_12 (643)
• India
25 Apr 07
no never, i just hang up sometime there, and then if someone is ready to accept its ok or give some time everyone will accept.........so just stick to your things and let do not change anyone your decisions or stress you just be you try to change others , bend them your way..........cheers
@Tanya8 (1733)
• Canada
25 Apr 07
I try not to, but I get irritated when people do that false-agreement nodding too. I'm completely happy to admit I'm wrong, but I would rather someone continue to try to convince me than end the argument by pretending to agree. I can agree to disagree if it's purely a matter of opinion, but if there are facts involved, it's important to me that we end by agreeing on the facts, no matter which one of us is right. My mother used to do that to me too.
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• Indonesia
25 Apr 07
Nope. Because sometimes what the best for us is not the best for the others. The point is we have give they some ideas.