The other day I was driving home. I started turning into my close when I saw an extension cable across the road and my 2 neighbours with a lawnmower on the grass verge on the other side of the road opposite their house, not the one immediately outside the house. I slowed down and was concentrating on making sure that driving over the cable wasn't going to pull on the lawnmower. I heard a little noise and the man looked up and looked absolutely daggers at me. I parked on my drive and immediately went closer to see what had happened.
It became apparent that Mrs had left a dustpan and brush on the road at the side as she had been sweeping the road! I had driven over this (but hadn't noticed it when I turned in because I had just been worried about the cable). She made a big thing of looking at it to see if it was broken. I apologised, said I hadn't seen it, that I'd been looking at the cable but that if it was broken I would replace it. He ignored me but just shouted over to her to see if it was broken. I think she said it wasn't (she replied to him, not me). I apologised again, felt really awkward so asked how they were. She said 'all right' very curtly and then they both ignored me and carried on.
I felt as if I'd been dismissed so went in the house and got really upset. AIBU to think that it was only a dustpan, not something really valuable/precious, that it shouldn't have been in the road anyway (who sweeps the road??) and to think that they could have made light of the situation. Now I don't know whether I should get a new dustpan anyway to show willing even though I don't think it was broken or forget about it. The problem is that I am really angry at how they were with me and feel that I don't want anymore to do with them if they are so awkward. My husband passed Mrs a day later and said 'hello'. She did reply but was apparently quite strained towards him and he hadn't done anything. What should I do?