Do People Assume Really Bizarre Things About You

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I was just relating this story elsewhere but wanted to share it here about some of the bizarre ideas people seem to assume about me...In this case maybe not such a bad assumption and is actually funny. First let me give you a bit of background. My mother and grandmother always claimed that my personality was more a cross between my father, but particularly my great-grandmother. My great--grandmother was the type that could radiate a rather "rich" aura about her even if she only had two cents to rub in her pocket...Well I guess I inherited that trait...LOL Last year, as many of my friends here know, I was going through, shall we say a "fun" time..NOT. I had just been notified that my SSI benefits were to be completely cut off, and all I had to my name was $5.71 to my name...thankfully in about a month's time I was able to get my benefits reinstated...record time for SS only because I had gotten the inspiration somehow to contact a representative of my Congressman who helped me out. Anyway, around that time, all the apartments in my building were getting rewiring work done...the electricians were in and out of our apartments working on the wiring. A neighbor of mine (a real nutcase..hehe) came into my apt to chit chat. We're talking about this, and that. Out of the blue she says, "Well, it looks like you're doing very well for yourself. Your mother must have left you at least $100,000 when she died." I nearly fell over in a heap...like WHAT? I didn't let on as I didn't think it was any of her business...The truth was when my mother died it was a mad, frantic scramble to find out if there was ANY money around..she didn't have life insurance, no checking or savings account, nada. The week she died I was living on the phone contacting everyone imaginable to find out if there was any money around...When my mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 I started asking her, "Uh, mom, is there any money around so when you make the grand transition I can make proper 'arrangements'?" She wouldn't answer me and just stare into space. When she died ad after much searching around, it did turn out there was about $5,000....most went to her funeral cost when she died in August 27, 2006, pay more bills and what I had leftover I grabbed the opportunity to get my own computer. In other words I got that money in October 2006 and by December 2006 it was all gone. So how my neighbor came up with the idea I had inherited $100,000 is beyond me..like I said maybe I radiate a "rich" aura. I didn't let on how much I had gotten, but instead said to her..."If I had inherited that much money, would I be sleeping on a 47 year old bed frame, with a 25 year old mattress, have a 15 year old stereo, heck would I still be living here?" Maybe I should have said, "Oh, no you got it wrong...I actually inherited $750,000, and tomorrow I pick up my customized Lamborghini, next week I pick up my yacht, and also my Lear Jet, and then I'm moving to my estate in England"...hehe So folks,...do people make really bizarre assumptions about you...is it a good assumption, bad one, outlandish as in my case, or what? How do you deal with it? Do you set people right or just let it slide?