Am I reading too much into it?

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I recently started a new job and I work with a woman I went to school with over 30 years ago.

We were great friends back then…going out to do’s and parties etc but then life has happened and we’ve all moved on with families and husbands and new lives etc..gradually drifting apart as you do.

We were all talking in the office about words we disliked and we had the usual ones of moist etc and I mentioned that I didn’t like the word bitch…no rhyme or reason - I just don’t like it.

Fast forward to today. It happens to be my birthday and this work colleague/old school friend has sent me a card. All well and good until I opened it. (See images below)

I guess my AIBU is

a) am I reading more into this than necessary and it’s just a card
or
b) has she hunted it out especially from all the cards in the shop she could have chosen and is there an underlying message?

I would be interested in your reasoning for your vote also?

TIA

I really doubt that she even made the connection between that conversation and the card. She probably just thought the card was funny.

Even if it was intentional, given that you were first discussing words like "moist" which people dislike due to its sound/feel rather than any moral objection (I assume🤣) and given that you didn't say any particular reason for disliking the word bitch, maybe she thought you meant you just didn't like the sound of the word? So even if she did it deliberately, she may well have thought it was just an innocuous joke.

In any case, I really wouldn't worry about this again!

I don’t think she would have made any connection between the conversation and the card and I am sure she didn’t go hunting down a card with the word bitch in it.

That said, I nevertheless would not really like to receive a birthday card with offensive language in it.

YABU I'd see as a joke. If you didn't like the word moist and she got you a card with it on, would you be so upset? She probably saw it and thought it would be funny after the conversation.
Or Otis completely unconnected and she just got you a birthday card.

Assuming you weren't offended by bitch and saw it on the same ick level as moist, I'd say she thought it clever, alluding to an in joke.

Quite clearly a joke based on you not liking the word

That card would take some hunting down.
It really wouldn’t. And if she hated OP that much why the ever loving fuck would she spend ages “hunting” down a card with a word in she dislikes a bit? Even on MN level batshittery no one would do that.

Thanks for all the insights as outsiders looking in. I guess I was reading too much into it and should just appreciate the gesture.
Cheers!

Its a phrase usually associated with someone coming back to something so I would take it as a reference to being back in each other's lives and thus a nice connotation rather than anything else.