Argh, playground thread which I can't talk about in real life as I will feel bitchy and DH says I take these things too seriously.
There is a mother who was at DS's school last year. I am new to the area and I got to know her briefly and she was a friend of some of the new friends I had made. However, it became clear we weren't really going to get on. I tried, invited her for coffee, chatted on the playground etc.
However I later found out that she had been telling various friends how upsetting I was. I'm very much a call a spade a spade person and quite straight talking. She asked my advice about something (seemingly innocuous) and apparently I didn't give the right answer and she was really upset.
She didn't really go out of her way to speak to me much after that, nor I her. I can't help the way I am and am not going to lose sleep over someone who doesn't like me very much.
Except she keeps telling everyone how horrible I am. That I ignore her or, if I don't ignore her, that I am insulting (I'm not - she just takes me the wrong way).
She has never gone out of her way to be friendly towards me, doesn't appear to like me very much, but seems to have a real issue that I haven't bent over backwards to be her best friend.
aaarrrrgggghhhhh. Right, feel better now, as you were 