Just after christmas I was talking to one of the dads at school (who also happens to be my gym instructor) and he mentioned that he was due in work at 9.30am at a neighboring village. He doesn't drive so cycles and it is a fair distance, especially in the cold.
As it happens, I also work in this village on the day he does. I drive. So naturally I asked if he'd like a lift on these days. He accepted.
We have been doing this now for the past few weeks. Conversation tends to be limited to gym and gym ... and then perhaps a bit of gym.
So, I didn't see anything 'untoward' about this at all.
Anyway, last night I was approached by his wife at the gym who told me (nicely) that she wasn't happy with the set-up and had spoken to her husband about it who had agreed to cycle to work again instead. She said she wanted to tell me herself so that it didn't look like she was being nasty behind my back.
I'm a bit by it, surely she didn't think I was trying to steal her husband?? this is how it has come across and I'm mortified that anyone would think that of me I'm now wondering if I should find another gym which is a shame as I have made friends there now
Is she over-reacting or should I have known better?