Some Weird Random Woman Accused Myself And a Mate of Perving/Leering on Her

Right so this week has been a somewhat eventful week for me...

I was out for a drink with a few friends for a charity shindig in a local pub, had a great night, even won a bottle of champagne in a raffle, was delighted with myself, anyway the shindig finished up and most of the group I was with went home but myself and one mate of mine left this pub and went to another hangout of ours nearby for another one or 2 pints, had a game of pool and had a laugh with the usual regulars you'd see in there.

I told this mate of mine because I considered him a close mate, I said that I had a date tomorrow night in the same bar, and I tell few people about my personal life so I told him because he's a mate and I confide with him about general trails and tribulations and I've personally had a difficult couple of months due to a horrible relationship break-up I had a few months ago and he knows all the bad details compared to everyone else.

Anyway I told him that I had this date and that I was feeling weird getting myself out there again due to the affect the break-up had on me and we were chatting and my mate made me feel better about seeing this new girl tomorrow and I'm going to go ahead with it because it's probably the best thing to do.

Next thing another mate of mine randomly comes into the pub and my other mate starts subtly taking the piss about my date tomorrow and saying to the other fella "Man we should come here tomorrow night for a few pints" in this sarcy funny tone if you follow me, the other mate was like "Why what's going on tomorrow?" and I was trying not to smirk and nudging the other lad to shut up, it between me smirking across the bar at the mate that said "Why what's going on tomorrow?" there was this woman in her mid 30's maybe at the bar, about 8-10 years older than the three of us, she seen the stupid grin I was trying to hide from my mate across the way and she got all bitchy and paranoid and thought I was leering at her and that my mate and I were talking about her.

She had a number of bitchy comments and making us out to be the horrible men for looking at her and when we denied it because we weren't, I was looking at my mate across the way and wasn't remotely attracted to yer one and my mate and I had some words and I eventually said "Don't flatter yourself" and her saying not to mess with her and warning us and all this bulls**t, creating a load of drama in front of the staff and the few people at the bar on a relatively quiet Thursday night in the pub. She walked off in a huff anyway and was being loud and bitchy to the rest of her friends.

My mate and I were sitting there afterwards and were a bit shocked because we're harmless enough and we drink there often and we were like "What the f**k?, how dare she paint us in that light" she completely misunderstood what was going on around her. My mate who asked what was going on about my date, actually sort of knows the woman as he worked in the pub for a while, she's a regular and he has no time for her, because she often starts s**t in pubs and she told my mate and I where she works, which is a local place.

My mate and I feel like we can't go to this pub anymore if she is a regular because we're sort of afraid she will slander us in front of people for apparent gawking/leering/perving at her when no such thing happened, we were thinking about going to her place of work to straighten it out and "retain our honour" (sounds a bit stupid) but still like it's our credibility and reputation and it's one of our local hangouts and we shouldn't be talked to and treated like that when she hasn't a foggiest what was going on.

So what do you think of that? Anything like that happen anyone before? It's never happened to me anyway, it's not nice at all, feeling very uneasy about it.