I'll try and be as brief as possible! We moved from London to the city I grew up earlier this year. DD and DS started at a lovely infant school in September in Reception and Y1 respectively.
On the first day I clocked two women I'd been at secondary school with in the playground. They were good friends, 2 years above me. I remembered both as being very nice indeed.
Turns out one of them has a DD in DS' class. She's very nice and friendly, just as I remembered her. The other has a DS in the adjacent Y1 class. To start with I tried a few times to say 'hello'. She seemed not to see me so I thought maybe she had bad eyesight (!). Then I thought she was being a bit furtive. But it has become increasingly apparent that she is actively trying to avoid me as whenever I appear she moves quickly away, pulls faces at me and mutters to whoever she is with. I know this all sounds as though I'm being a bit paranoid but it's happened several times now. What's worse is that DS and her DS go to football club and are friendly with each other. Often on the way to school they start running together and she pulls her son away!
I'm completely at a loss as to what I could have possibly done 20 odd years ago to provoke this reaction. We weren't friends, didn't move in the same circles, just went to the same school. I've asked a couple of classmates if they remember anything and they don't. I just don't get it. I have been told that a member of her family did something that 'really embarrassed' her but can't see how that could make her like this with me.
Part of me just thinks it's not worth worrying about it all but I'm so intrigued. I've contemplated asking the nice one outright but I don't want to make her feel awkward. The thought of several more years of this isn't too appealing... WWYD?