Some back story:
About six months ago, the boss of one of my best friends (let's call her Stella, just for fun) sent me a friend request on Facebook. Now I'd never met Stella, but when I saw her work affiliation and that she was friends with my friend, I went ahead and added her. A few days after that, my friend revealed that Stella friended me because she thought I was cute. We've never sent each other messages or wall posts, but I don't really care about that sort of thing and so we remained connected on Facebook.
Two weeks ago, I came out on Facebook, put up a new profile pic, and changed my name. Stella never commented.
Fast forward to today.
I popped in unannounced to my friend's store five minutes before they closed, as I was in the neighborhood running an errand in the adjacent mall. Stella was there... the first time I'd ever seen her in person. She asked if I needed any help and I said I was waiting for my friend, but I didn't introduce myself because I wanted to see if she recognized me. My friend finished with his last customer about 15 minutes after the store closed, so only my friend, Stella, one other employee, and I remained in the store. My friend went into the backroom and Stella chased him. I remained on the floor.
When we got to the car, my friend said that when Stella got to the backroom, she told him, "She's SOOOOO cute! You should date her!" To this my friend replied that it would really be quite difficult (not only does he have a girlfriend, but we've known each other since our second year of high school, nearly 20 years ago).
My friend also informed Stella that she had friended me on Facebook (obviously under my old name and gender). She had no clue and said she didn't recognize me at all.
So my friend told her to look me up again. Stella's a Facebook fiend so is no doubt going to follow the suggestion.
My friend promised to update me on Stella's reaction when he sees her on Monday.
This should be good...
