To think this was bitchy - or am I being too sensitive?

[JaneS]

I had coffee with a friend of my DH's today because she is thinking of doing a postgrad degree and wanted to know what it's like in terms of workload and finances and so on, and I'm in the middle of my degree. I don't know exactly what her job is or earns but she graduated two years ago.

I started explaining how you go about applying for funding, and explained that the funding works out as basically like minimum wage, but as you don't pay tax, the lump sum you get is less than that, and you get money into your account quarterly - all of which is true. She started shaking her head at me and giggling and basically being very strange and then said 'I could never live like that. Ever.'

AIBU to think that she was very rude? Or am I being a bit touchy? I am aware that it's not exactly private information in the way a salary is, but I still feel pissed off.

FJ - have had lots of younger women at work come out with similar corkers but the irony of it this women is older than me!

Can't see how it was bitchy or rude. She was seemingly exploring her options and when you laid out the truth of it she said that 'she couldn't live like that'. Surely it says more about herself than you and is no criticism of you at all.

For example I know people are very organised and have very fixed routines but I'm more of a fly by the seat of my pants sort of person. I know I couldn't their lives because of the sort of person I am however I am secretly jealous of people who do live like that as it seems much less stressful overall. However I know people who couldn't cope with my way of working and I certainly don't see it as criticism if they may make comment (although maybe I'm just very thick skinned ).

I think you just have to accept that everyone is different and that's what makes the world go round.

I know everyone is different. As I said, I wouldn't have minded her saying it wasn't for her - it was the falling about laughing I thought was rude ffs!