Using your husband as your personal secretary....

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the tone of your message. He may have interpreted it as a call to the household with an offer of furniture. That's probably how my husband and I would have interpreted it. And if he had waited until I got home to give me the message and expected me to call back I would have been annoyed.

But if you made it clear in your phone message that it was part of your friendship with her, I see your point. Perhaps they misunderstood your intent.

Yeah, this was weird (based on your post). If I left my number for a new neighbor and they called asking if i wanted some use furniture - I would have been somewhat annoyed and I probably would not have called back at all. How did you know they needed a bed.

PP here. Sorry, what I actually meant is that if my husband were home and picked up the message and could have returned the call, I would have been annoyed at him for waiting for me to get home and expecting me to return the call. (What you can't dial a phone, I would have thought.) But OP, that's based on me assuming that it was an offer to the whole family. If you had called my house leaving a message about going for coffee, I would expect to return that call and then I would be annoyed with my husband if he did call you.

If I were your neighbor, I might want to get to know you better but if the message is about getting a bed and not going for coffee, it would be easy to misinterpret your intentions -- which I'm sure were only the best. You might want to call her again and invite her to have coffee and see what happens.