1. "Well, yes. As a matter of fact, I DO mind. A LOT!" 2. "You are now officially in the dog house, as far as I'm concerned." 3. "Well, let's see. You stole some of my ideas without asking me and got me to do the work that you should have been doing. Goodness, why should I MIND!? [After which you could add "YES I mind!" - just in case your friend is dense and doesn't get it.]

This one is backwards; here are some examples. Do you mind if I open the window? No, I don't mind, go ahead and open the window, it's OK with me. Would you mind (also commonly used) if I smoked this cigar in this room? Yes, I (would) mind, please smoke outside and don't smoke in this room, it's not OK with me. I hope my examples show how to answer the "do you mind" questions and how to show your feelings. About being critical or sarcastic or witty would take more than the available space here and all I can say here is once you have the language skills built up to a point you can be witty or funny or whatever you want to be and that would be developed by you just as a comedian develops a routine or a musician develops a repertoire of songs. My Skype: brian.madden4

1- when someone says "If you don't mind..." - if you mind, so just answer: "Indeed I do mind, maybe you should have told me before, don't you think so?" (I know it is a shock and it is not easy to say it, but we should be honest about our feelings any time it may be possible). If you don't take position... it will happen again and again in your life (own experience). Your friend was not polite about you, didn't even respect you. Show him that you are not like him, be direct and honest. 2- when you want to show that you don't like a person's behaviour - There is a special, invisible energy in charge of such answer. If you feel so, he will know... besides it, if what happened was really bad, maybe you should not say anything, just make yourself a part of such kind of people. Otherwise, open your heart and clarify it talking about it sweet and carefully... maybe you will get an apology. 3- when you just want to show sarcasm / criticism / wit? Smile and give a question back as an answer. As in this case, if I were you, I would smile with sarcasm and answer: - "Why is it important for you to know how I feel or if it matters or not to me now?". Don't forget that we all take some time to learn how to impose ourselves, but if we don't do it, there will always be someone trying to take some advantage of us. Take your brightness, little diamond!