[There's the briefest fumble of his words that has his looking away before he frowns at himself and continues on in a mutter.]

Just because you're strong enough to take the hit doesn't mean you have to.

[A modified version of advice he'd been given before. He hates that it's not the first time he's repeated it in this place, when he'd done his best to brush it off in the moment.]

Besides, you still wound up with a busted up horn and taking a weird break in the streets that's gotten you stuck with an annoying kid that won't mind his own business.