An action that serves no purpose other than showing someone you can do something, regardless of the financial, physical or emotional cost. The offenders name is usually Chris or Mandy.
Chris is such a point prover! He tailgated 5 feet off that truck’s bumper, traveling 80 mph, to show his anger for being cutoff!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)