Please excuse any major texting errors, I'm on mobile.

A few days ago, I was returning from walking my dog. I usually do a final loop around the front of my house before I head home, so in the loop I saw a car park on the side. I didn't think anything of it and continued down the shared driveway that heads to my house when I hear someone speaking. I have one headphone in so I pluck it out and turn around when I see an older woman.

To give some background, I live in Northern California and although the area where I live is known for its beautiful locations, robberies and break in have gotten much worse within the last couple years and we've had a couple of major items stolen from our vehicle and windows shattered. My trust level in giving information out is pretty low and I'm not feeling the safest as it is. 

So, the woman comes super close to me and says "hello, how are you??" I back away a little because my dog can be too friendly at times and tries to give hugs and say "hello, good thank you and yourself?" She then asks if I live around there. The way I am standng, I am inbetween two houses so either one could be my home or I could have simply be using the gate at the end to leave. I say "yes I live around here" and leave it at that. But she insists, "what house do you live in"? 

At this point, I'm kinda nervous because I'm not very confrontational so I tell her "oh, sorry I'm just not used to telling strangers where I live" and laughed to try to make a joke out of it. She goes off and says "This is my fault, I forgot I was in so and so county, I'm from New York where you can say Hi to people!! I'm just a neighbor trying to say hi!! I'm an educated person!!"

After she said the educated person part, I had it. This lady was yelling at me in the middle of the day outside because I didn't want to tell her specifically what house I live in? I said "oh, so are you insinuating I'm not an educated person because I won't tell you where I live? Thank you and have a good day" and I walked through the gate so it seemed like I lived in neither house. She kept yelling after me but I didn't really catch what she said. 


If she had said, "oh, I'm a neighbor, just want to say hi." I would have apologized and moved on. But she simply asked me where I lived. However, I feel guilty now. Am I the asshole??