One of the things about showing sincere affection – whether you are conscious of what you are doing or not – is that there will always be those people who turn it into something it definitely is not.
I remember in 2005 inviting a plumber round to take a look at my heating system because it needed work done to it. This was someone I met at a BNI breakfast meeting so the assumption is that you are pretty safe in their hands. He came over and immediately picked up on my energy and decided to turn it into an excuse to get way too familiar.
I took him to court for “sexual assualt” and lost because when the Police came round to take a statement the original two officers who visited made no notes and went back to their office and wrote up our conversation. Turns out in his notes he put something that this man had done to me that I didn’t mention (because it didn’t happen). Because of that I was made out to be the one lying – after all the Police never make mistakes, right….! It couldn’t possibly be that in the journey from my house back to the station he made an error and put down something I didn’t say.
