@mowens both.
edit: Pandorra: no I haven’t. I would have to go out of my way to even find her now, and truthfully I don’t think I have to apologise as she decided to take it the wrong way, never giving me a chance to explain myself. I persoanlly hate it when someone who knows you – even a little – decides to misunderstand something, and feel ‘insulted” or offended by it – walking away rather than “confronting” – I would’ve simply said something on the spot, like, “what did you mean by that?” or simply, :you know, that could be interpreted as… – which would have allowed me to explain.
Even good people make mistakes in language, especially in an ESL environment, which is extra sensitive (ESL= English as a second language); she should’ve spoken up.
@pd = I am not ocd – saw the movie As Good as it Gets – and I am not like that. ;-)
I just felt bad that it was a miss because of something silly – but it’s all hers – not mine. I’d apologise in a New York minute – to anyone – that I have offended, either inadvertently or even intentionally – if the situation arose and was required. In that, I prefer not to “offend.”
If I think someone is an a-hole, then I’ll tell him so – or just ignore him – but I do not believe in insulting or offending just for its sake.