"Shut up!" He snapped. All he wanted to do was punch him right in the face just then. Even if it wouldn't be as gratifying as he wanted, it would feel pretty good for a moment. "Don't project your issues onto me." Zacharias surely had enough of them on his own with whatever Ernie was adding to it, even if some of it might hold truth.
"You are right about one thing, you can't imagine it." For their similarities he wouldn't willingly admit to, their differences were vast. Ernie had something of a decent life of it, Zacharias was...well, he was treading water. He balled his right hand into a fist. Resisting the urge to punch the other man for the moment he settled for pulling a punch at the space between them.