^^^ Do people really say things like that to acquaintances? If I did, I would probably conclude it was the explanation for why I don’t have many friends. It sounds gratuitously hurtful. I do have an acquaintance whom I run into every few years. He went through a period where he would say, “You’re looking great! Have you lost weight?” I knew he was being glib and insincere but at least not hurtful.

”Fork is bent,” as a supposedly good-natured jibe seems particularly malicious if said publicly and indelibly when the fork’s owner is trying honestly to sell an undamaged bike.