Last week I went to visit one of my oldest friends (male) who was unwell. When I visit people I don't like to go empty handed - it is the way I was brought up. I took with me six iced buns I had made and handed them to his wife. The conversation went like this:
Wife - "why have you brought these?"
Me - "they are a present"
Wife - "but I don't like icing"
Me - "sorry, I didn't know that"
Wife - "you can get them out of my house now"
Like an idiot, I then meekly took them back to the car. I am still seething at her rudeness.
Mrs. O., has the thought ever crossed your mind that she might be jealous of your friendship with her husband? Clearly she sounds ignorant and intimidated to me.