This happened a few days ago.
I usually walk my dog in the morning between 6 and 8.
I never see this neighbour at that time, she lives a few doors up from me but I do know who she is, I've seen her at other times sitting in her front garden.
She questioned 'if I even lived on this avenue' a while back when I asked her to please move her car as it was blocking my exit from the avenue. I just replied that yes I did, and I know she questioned another neighbour about this as she seemed to not beleive me. Nothing negative from her since.
Anyway I was walking my dog the other morning and neighbour appeared outside of her house as I walked past and called to me to 'remember to pick my dog sh1t up next time'.
I stopped and turned and said that I always picked up (which is 100% true).
She argued with me, said she'd got me on CCTV and that it was at 13:30 (didn't specify a day).
It was 2 minute exchange that went something like;
'I always pick up after my dog'
'What you lying for!? You're meant to be a respectable lady!! I've got it on CCTV so you can't try lying, do you want to see it?!' (I declined, did not want to go into her house, and I know It's not true, plus she has a large dog and my dog would have likely got into an altercation with it had I gone up to her).
'It was you and X and your two dogs and neither of you picked up!!'
I asked her to stop shouting at some point in the midst of this and she continued. In the end I told her I wasn't shouting in the street, and walked away.
'X' is a friend of mine who, at this point I hadn't walked dog with for at least a week. It seems odd that neighbour wouldn't have mentioned this before a week had passed, if indeed it were true, which it absolutely isn't. Plus, friend has two dogs, we'd always have all 3 of them when we walk together. Not two.
My dog also doesn't ever, ever poo in our street, for me to pick up-she always waits until we're on grass. The whole scenario makes no sense.
Why would someone make this up?!
Or perhaps has she just got her wires completely crossed and truly believes it was me she saw? There is always a smell of cannabis from her house-and I am not someone who's particularly bothered about people doing that, but could it make her perhaps paranoid and/or think irrational things about things like this?
I am not sure how to approach her now. I am likely to see her again. She's not been out at that time of a morning before but I often see her in her garden if I walk past later on in the day. I don't want to avoid it in case she's saying this purely to try to intimidate me, and avoiding her may make her feel she's 'won'?
I don't know. I am not the best at this sort of thing.