First time poster. Really need some views on an experience at the gym today as going back and forth in my mind as to whether I was wrong or not.
I took my two small boys (aged two and three, almost four) swimming today. We had a lovely time, they were both well behaved and not to noisy. I was negotiating them out of the pool to the changing room when my youngest boy knocked a sign by one of the swimming lanes (one stating it was the slow lane) it toppled over and I couldn’t catch it before it fell into the water. I apologised to the lifeguard who was very smiley and all ‘no problems’ about it. A nice man in the pool lane lent down and picked up the sign. At this point a lady swimming towards us exclaimed her glasses were on the sign and were broken. The nice man dunked down and picked up her glasses and declared all was well with them. She took them from him and began looking in earnest for a fault. The man in the pool said something along the lines of ‘come on!’ and I started walking away with my children (bearing in mind their ages i wanted to herd them away from the swimming pool) I could also tell this lady was just that type. You know, spoiling for a fight. Anyway the long and the short is she declared the glasses to be ‘loose’ and although I pointed out she could tighten them very easily herself with a small screwdriver she declared she didn’t have one. I walked away. I just felt she wanted money out of me/ an argument and I was not A. In a position to discuss it given I had my two children in a swimming pool and needed to solely focus on them and B. I don’t want to engage with negative/ poisonous people like that.
So what do people think. Was i being unreasonable to walk away?