sky: mind games....
in my experience, if I encounter people like that and think of ways to annoy them, I tend to be way betzter at shrugging them off. sometimes, I actually do stuff like that - if they try to play that game with me they shouldn't be surprised if I play it with them. Made my civil service OK, as the assholes learned to back down from harassing the newbie - the newbie was better at harrassing them after all