I went to a university reunion dinner at the weekend. It was a lovely do, and I got to see a lot of friends who live all over the country, which was fantastic.
After dinner, I wandered over to speak to someone I hadn't seen during the evening. He had to dash because he had a taxi waiting, so it was a very brief chat. He had been sitting next to a woman from my course. I've never been friends with her, simply because we're very different people. She's the very glamorous, gregarious, 'popular' party girl, whereas I'm very much more introverted, prefer small groups of people etc. Nothing in particular against her, we just don't really have anything in common, other than field of study and work.
As we were both standing there, I started a bit of general small talk with her. She suddenly exclaimed in (what I took to be) a rather disingenuous fashion about how excited she was that I'm expecting and immediately reached out and felt my bump. Not just a touch, but properly grabbed with both hands and felt around. Bearing in mind that I've not seen or spoken to her for about 7 years, we hadn't had any physical contact at all (no hugs or handshakes), and neither of us would consider the other to be a friend.
I didn't say anything at the time (just recoiled slightly) because I didn't want to make a scene at a nice do, but part of me wants to send her a message asking her not to do it in future - if she wants to touch someone's bump, she should at least ask first.
What do you think? Try and stop it happening to other women (because I'm absolutely sure she'd have no qualms about manhandling any pregnant acquaintance) or just let sleeping dogs lie and avoid her if we're in the same room together again?