I met another gym member for a coffee after a class and thought she seemed pleasant enough. Bumped into her again a week or so later and she said she was going to a garden centre for a coffee and shopping and would I like to come too.
So I went and OMG this woman is pretty awful in her attitudes and beliefs. It’s like she let her guard down. When we got back to town I walked home and felt almost in shock, like I’d been subjected to her awful verbal diarrhoea. Then again a week later I bumped into her and was put on the spot about coffee and stupidly I met up with her - but never again! I would have walked out of the cafe I was so aghast but again we were back at the same garden centre in the middle of nowhere (and I had a lift from here).
She has now text me twice within a week to meet for coffee but I never want to be in her company again. I’ve ignored the texts. She is just awful and I find I have been avoiding the gym on the the days I know she doesn’t work to avoid bumping into her.
What is a polite but firm thing can I say to say to coffee? She seems persistent, tone deaf, and doesn’t take a hint? I’m not a confrontational person and don’t want to be rude, I just simply cannot bear this person.