Recently in the office there was a very boring, innocuous conversation about gardening. It was a nothing conversation, no drama or aggro. There were 3 of us all joining in and chatting.
Woman A brought up a plant and I replied saying “I just found out x y z about that plant, I never knew that before”.
She then replied “no way, I had never heard that before, I have some at home, that’s good to know”. The conversation ended a few mins later. As I said, super boring and innocuous.
A couple of days later I’m at my desk, woman A says to another colleague “Did you know x,y,z about plant?” Colleague says no never heard that. Woman A then says “yeah my friend told me, but she has a habit of being full of shit and if it’s true she probably googled it so she could say she knows something we don’t”.
I was/am very confused as I had told her this thing. of course someone else could have told her but what are the chances of that?
I’m surprised at her comments. We have always gotten on well, no cross words, just polite water cooler chat. And given the subject matter I did raise my eyebrows at what she was saying about it. It was very forcefully said given the boring subject.
so should I tell her I heard? Do I ask her to ensure I’m not around if she’s going to speak badly of me behind my back? Or do I let it go and stop giving it head space
sorry it’s long I didn’t want to drip feed