I had a confrontation this afternoon with a neighbour I barely know. I don't even know her name.
A neighbour's son (aged about 5) and 3 friends had found a piece of wood and put it on the curb to make a ramp, only a foot or so away from my car. I nudged it further away from my car with my foot, as I was worried about one of them crashing into to my car and hurting themselves and/or damaging my car. I was also putting my 1 year old into her pushchair (stored in the car) and would have had to block the ramp to do so as it was so close, and didn't want one of them to hurtle into us.
Next thing, my neighbour has come out of the house and is screaming at me for moving it. I tried to explain that it was too close to my car, but she started calling me a bitch and acusing me of all sorts of things, including throwing her son's bike into the road (which is completely untrue - I have never been near his bike).
When I denied it, she then yelled at me that everyone round here hates me and that I "have it coming. Just you wait". I asked her if she was threatening me, and she said "its not a threat, its a promise". I told her she was wrong and that she'd clearly got the wrong end of the stick and we should sort it out, but she told me she "knew all about me and the things I've done" and repeated that I'm a bitch. She wouldn't elucidate when I asked her what I was supposed to have done. She then told me what my job apparently is to confirm that she knows all about me (but getting that wrong too), and then stormed back into her house.
I'm feeling physically sick. What do you do when somebody is wrongly and publicly accusing you of doing things you havent done. It seems this crazy woman is going round bad mouthing me to my neighbours. I feel so shocked, intimidated, and helpless. I don't know what to do. Was it really such a bad thing to move the ramp? What would you do?