To give someone a hard time, just for fun and pleasure. Or if someone if is you is constantly "mouthing" off at you. You would deal with that person in a profound way.
1. Every day I would come in to work and look forward of giving my boss "Rich" a quick run for the money. That really made my day.
2. A customer was very rude to me, and she was giving me a headache, so I had the store director take care of her ass. PROBLEM SOLVED.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)