Long story but will try to keep it short. Met up with some friends yesterday for coffee and one of the girls really upset me. There's four of us, all ex work friends who usually meet up a couple of times a month for coffee and we all get on really well. We were talking about the torrential rain and storms that we had a few weeks ago and one of them was saying about how her fence had blown down and roof tiles had come off etc, so I told them about what happened to me. Driving in this awful rain with dd and we saw a woman walking along a very very busy duel carriageway with no coat on in this horrendous rain. Drove past and I remarked to dd how awful and I bet her car had broken down etc etc so we came off road and drove back round and pulled in a lay-by to offer her a lift, or the use of our phone. Turned out she was a 12 year old girl ( hard to tell with the rain) who had run away from home and was going to meet a man she had met on the Internet in a town 40 miles away. Obviously I couldn't then just drop her off somewhere so I called the police and then took her to my home to wait for them. Police came and took this girl home and then followed up with a lovely call to tell me what had happened, as did her mum to thank me for stopping. My friend then said in a very bitchy way " oh your a proper Samaritan you aren't you" I asked what she meant and she said " well only you would stop fgs everyone else would have thought aww what a shame and gone about their day, but your always adopting waifs and strays" ( I have an adopted dd as well as fostered children over the years). I didn't tell the story to receive any kind of praise but was just telling them what had happened in the context of the conversation. This comment has really upset me, as it was the way in which it was said.Dh has just said ignore it and that she can be a real bitch sometimes with everyone, but I can't get over the WAY it was said, in a sneery, bitchy way.Aibu to want to phone her and speak to her about how much it upset me or should I just ignore this comment as she has never been like this to me before and we just carried on as normal after it was said.
AIBU?
It would have been better if you'd pulled her up on it at the time, it looks a bit 
if you phone her up now.
Next time- there will be one- just say something there and then.
Vicky, you showed her part of herself that's missing, kindness, empathy and thought for a child in distress. She had a shock so tried to put you down but ended up showing everyone there her real character.
Ignore her and be proud of what you did, you saved that little girl from an awful experience. 
And well done for using your instinct and stopping for that child. You could have potentially avoided a horrific incident happening to her. You should feel very proud
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