Thanks Ali. I really appreciate that, I'm all right -- honest!
I'm the kind of person who likes to get things out of my system -- so I'll write things down as a way of letting them go. I was really more bewildered than upset by the neighbor, and meant my OP to be more "WTF?" than it seems to have come across I have plenty of happy things to share, they just seem so cheesy and saccharine once written I tend not to post them.