Insults
Being blessed with wild curly hair myself, I'm used to various comments about hair, curls, eating my crusts etc.

Every four weeks I used to visit a local barbers shop for a haircut and the same semi-geriatric used to utter "Curly un't it?" every single time he held a pair of scissors to my hair.

After twenty or so instances of "Curly un't it?" I kind of flipped, looked in the mirror and screamed "Aargh! I had flat top when I left the house this morning!".

Sometimes sarcasm in its most acerbic form is the only antidote to these idiot.

BTW - Enzyme: I quite agree, it is often the most socially gifted who feel a need to bully people. I had a guy in my last job who harrassed me non-stop for four years, although socially accomplished, he claimed in his disciplinary that he needed someone as a target in order to feel secure enough that he wouldn't be a target for bullying himself. When confronted directly by me, he'd be polite and sickeningly nice, yet would instigate another obsessive campaign of harrassment the moment I was no longer a direct physical threat to him. Being socially capable does not necessarily mean this guy didn't have some serious issues going on...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 22 Apr 2008, 11:38, Reply)