How would you explain this away?

I was sitting with a banker today, telling him all about my landscaping business that was growing enough to justify a business account, when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up, and it was an instructor at a class I take at the gym, who waved at me as she left the bank.

She's a nice lady, and has a history of chatting up people before class starts. I don't know how much of my conversation she heard, but I want to have something ready in case she mentions my 'business'. For the life of me, though, I can't think of a way to explain it away. Suggestions?

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"I was actually asking for Louise. You know Louise? She has been intending to get into the bank but is just too busy so I told her I would check around for her. Banks work daylight hours M-F and so does she these days. I just tell them it is my business because otherwise they tell me Louise should be in to ask for herself."

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

"Was the area where you met with the advisor private enough to share personal information?" Um, nope.

You don't have to explain your life to anyone or what you do in it.

It is none of her business "at all" about what you talked to your banker about. You owe her nothing.

Sadly, that's not a question on this report.

@LGRM wrote:

"Was the area where you met with the advisor private enough to share personal information?" Um, nope.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

Logically, I don't. However, saying it to someone that way could be viewed as offensive, and I like to keep things on a positive note.

@SunnyDays2 wrote:

You don't have to explain your life to anyone or what you do in it.

It is none of her business "at all" about what you talked to your banker about. You owe her nothing.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

My reply: Oh, nothing important. And how are you doing?

@KathyG wrote:

Logically, I don't. However, saying it to someone that way could be viewed as offensive, and I like to keep things on a positive note.

@SunnyDays2 wrote:

You don't have to explain your life to anyone or what you do in it.

It is none of her business "at all" about what you talked to your banker about. You owe her nothing.

The proper response to a nosey question of what you talked to your banker about would be: "That is private." Or "I would rather not say." Your answer is not offensive....the person who asked what you talked to your banker about .....is being offensive. It's none of her business and she should not have asked you that question. It's like someone asking you, "How much money do you have in the bank?"

I always talk in a whisper, and I always tell anyone that asks about why I'm whispering that I have to keep it quite from the guys at the NSA. Though now that I think about it the last time I went into the bank with my tin foil hat on I was looked at rather strangely.

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