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> "What have you done to your hair!?

How about "Hey man, where's all your hair?", which is bad enough, except it was said to a HUGE, bald Police officer.

He was NOT amused.

It was 4 A.M. back in 1971, going through a small town on route 6 on the way to Cleveland from Toledo. We had just finished spending a week as roustabouts with the circus and were coming home tired and dirty. We had a passenger with us, a member of the circus, who had even less sleep we did.

The driver of the car got pulled over and could not produce his driver's license, so the policeman said to follow him to the station where... the guy who was with us, still groggy from just being awakened, saw the bald officer and proceeded to ask what would have been a perfectly reasonable question under different circumstances. My friend and I tried to make ourselves invisible while the half-dozen officers present expressed their displeasure with our ride's remark. We fully expected to get our butts whupped, but lucked out because they were changing shifts and we were effusive in our apologies, so they let us go in the end.