Subversion: Everyone seems to see something with this troper and a girl I met during a band event. But we really ARE JustFriends -- I'm busy crushing on someone from my own school while she's had 2-3 relationships of her own since we met. But I suppose these things are subject to change--when I informed her of the former, she said something like "she's missing a great guy in front of her". Whether this is a stealth compliment or an indication that she's okay with / not bothered by it is probably the RealLife equivalent of DependingOnTheWriter.

This troper and her now-ex-boyfriend were subjected to the "everyone sees it, including one half of the couple" variety of this before we started dating. Apparently we didn't act that different from before--people still asked us if we were dating.

This Troper continues being asked when she will go out with her friend, of whom she's apparently good with. Neither of us think that, just everyone else.

Holy crap, yes. There was this one girl I know whom I thoroughly despised, and the feeling was mutual. She and I genuinely hated each other, or so we thought. Everybody else we knew thought differently, much to our chagrin. Eventually, our antagonism cooled, we started talking to each other civilly, and eventually became very good friends. Turns out, she and I had liked each other for a very long time, even while we hated each other, and we had never told the other person. We dated and broke up eventually, but according to all of her friends, we still have our moments.

This troper and her lifelong best friend grew up spending most of our free time together, but only dating other people. We often introduced each other as brother and sister. When we walked around at our ten-year high school reunion, no one even seemed to REMEMBER that we'd been 'brother/sister' best friends in school, in fact, the first words out of almost everyone were 'Aww, you guys are still together!' Turns out that yes, everybody but us DID see it, and that reunion was eight years, a wedding, and three children ago.

This trooper had quite a nasty shock when she discovered that her sports team had been shipping her and a male teammate for several seasons. She doesn't dislike the boy in question, but a)she doesn't like him like ''that,'' b)she's something like a Kinsey 4.5 (bi, but pretty damn gay) and, most of all, c)she's been madly crushing on a ''female'' teammate all the time she's been oblivious to his advances. (Would this be "discussed," or something?)

This troper encountered an instance during a get-together when two online friends met in person for the first time. Flying tackleglomp upon first sight? Not romantic. Cuddling while sharing a bus seat? Totally not romantic. Lying with her head in his lap, running his hand through her hair? No romance going on here!

Subversion: Exactly two people were unaware that my father and a co-worker were having an affair: my father, and the co-worker.

Subversion: This Troper has been shipped with various boys in her class up through the years. The thing they have in common is being annoying, immature douches in one way or other, and this behavior in others often make me purposefully avoid them and get away from them. Apparently, me avoiding people and yelling at them at times when they are especially bad means I like them. What.