How are you? Part 2

I did not actually forget to walk when I came around the corner, this morning.  There was no warning for what would happen next.  I keep replaying it in my head.  As I turned the corner I saw Bear coming my direction still a bit away.  I gave her my signature beauty-pageant wave and she waved back, clumisly and over-excited, like a somewhat mentally challenged girl watching Sesame Street.  It was one of those moments that you feel both the embarrassment for knowing the gimp, but then the glory of being the person who is nice to the gimp.  Anyway, what happend next literally came out of the darkest of thunder clouds.  Bear, looked at me with her eyes crossed, as usual; I try not to not make it an awkward moment for both of us and look at her forward and then it came...

"Wow, you have some enemies!"  I was like WTF?!?!?  She must be kidding.  She is clearly jealous...let it go; but after I asked her 37th time, I realized that she was not lying, nor could she have drummed this up in that small area of her brain that is still funtioning at full capacity.  She continued to tell me that the taller man, who I know works on the 11th floor (and he is NOT my friend), said to a man of small stature, "Here comes the girl you don't like!"  Bear turned around, because she hears this a lot; she is not very popular.  This is what validates her experience, because Bear did turn and look at the men after waving to me and the men were looking right at me.

I have to admit to being puzzled.  How could someone NOT like me when they have not spoken to me?!?  It is like someone NOT liking me after they talk to me-it just does not happen.  Later in the afternoon, Bear and I board the elevator and who should appear?!  The man who gave the heads up to the little bastard that does not like me.  It was obvious to him that Bear ratted him out, she glanced at him and looked back at me.  I looked at him and said "How are you...."