Does it infuriate you when people make wrong assumptions about you?

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This is an incident that occurred a few weeks ago and I'm still fuming about it. There's this neighbor of mine that lives next door to me. We're not "buddies" or anything but if we do bump into each other we'll chit chat. Well one day I ran into her and we starting yakking about this and that and somehow in the conversation she said that I seem to be doing very well for myself even though my mother had passed away...now she had known I was getting SSI Disability...well that was until recently--if you've been following my story about this you know what I'm talking about--my benefits were completely cut off this month--well I didn't let on about this fiasco I'm going through..with the exception of close friends I've kept my mouth shut about it cause to be honest..my entire apartment building is surrounded by gossipy nosy bodies. So like I said she's saying how well I'm doing for myself and gee, your mother left you a lot of money when she died...didn't she leave you about $100,000.00--My mouth gaped opened--$100,000.00?? Don't I WISH. I didn't let her know the exact amount left me but it was far from that...only enough to take care of my mom's funeral costs, other bills related to her, and with the rest invested in finally getting my computer system...hardly anywhere near what this neighbor assumed I had gotten...I wanted to tell her what I did get but thought no...she'd tell this other nosy neighbor, and that nosy neighbor would blab to someone else.. Like I said common sense told me to keep my mouth shut about all the current problems I'm really going through with money because of this SSI benefits cut off I'm going through But what kind of idiot is this woman?? If I had inherited so much money would I one, still have my fifteen year old stereo system? Would I still have my dinky 13" color tv? Would I still have my od bed since I could use a new one...Would I still be living here?? So I'm just so infuriated by this jerk making such an assumption that I'm well off...why cause I'm not begging in the streets or borrowing money?? Yikes! So does it infuriate you when someone makes some stupid and false assumption about you? What do you do about it?? Do you correct their assumption or do you just keep your mouth shut about it?