Ugh, do you sit in the bathroom stall right next to someone, even when there are lots of empty ones? Give people a little space if you can. This is a common courtesy.

Just because you're the only two people there doesn't mean that she should have to sit by you. Just because she moved doesn't mean that she necessarily has a personal problem with you, not that it isn't a likely guess. Grow a spine, OP; it's not your problem... unless you had something "more" in mind, in which case, I might act the same way that she did.

I'd probably have done the same. Have you never noticed that at conferences people space themselves out around the room as much as possible? There's a reason. It's easier to listen when you don't have someone sitting right beside you irritating you with their moving and breathing and annoying habits.

With the people assuming over interaction in a conference, there is no way based on the wording to assume either that assumption is right. I have actually been to a work-related conference where they have told us after to move around and partner up, but most you don't need to interact with others there, just listen/general discussion. I was at one once where we were graded without knowing it until later on where you sat and how you interacted. There was a woman in the room "setting up" but what she was doing was observing how we behaved on entering the room. Those that sat down right next to someone else, when there were still plenty of seats (it was set up to have 4 extra chairs per person there), and did not try to interact with them lost big points. If you sat next to someone and tried to interact you were still okay. But in general, for my company, when there are seats available, you should sit with an empty between you, management believes that those who sit next to each other are more likely to talk inappropriately during the conference, and will ask that you leave space.

I would do the same. I mean, if the room was empty and you sit right next to me I would have thought you were psychooooo 

She probably felt threatened (sexually) by you because you decided to sit next to her when you could have sat opposite her...

lmao

Wait. So you walked into an otherwise empty room, and sat right NEXT to the only woman in it? That's just double-plus creepy. No wonder she moved. I'll bet her FML is in here somewhere. "Today, I was sitting in an empty room waiting for a conference to start, and some creep ..."

idkweird and twinklestar.....get a fking room!

that sukks man