I [21F] made the mistake of adding a customer [20sM] on Facebook, but unadded him after awkward posts. He came to the store twice to confront me.

I work at a store that attracts customers that are into pop culture, so I often meet people with similar interests and I like to chit-chat with them about it. I am absolutely obsessed with Harry Potter, and one day I had a customer come in head-to-toe in HP merch - legitimately, he was even wearing a pair of HP glasses. I sparked up a conversation with him and we immediately began ranting and raving together, so much so that his friend suggested we add each other on Facebook and I obliged. A couple hours later he messaged me, called me cute, and asked if I'd like to see Fantastic Beasts with him when it came out. This happened a month before the release date.

This guy ended up being a frequent, nearly constant poster who regularly invited me to FB lives and videos he'd make about whatever ramblings were on his mind at the time. It got to the point where it was kind of weird, but not enough to really remove him, until his ramblings would turn religous. He'd make posts about how you can pray your depression away, and some of his posts were teetering on the verge of homophobic. The final straw for me was a post about the recent shooting that happened in Florida, which essentially he was saying that people didn't pray enough or thank God enough during disasters like these. I unadded him, and almost immediately he messaged me just saying "hey". I was weirded out because I didn't know how he'd know I removed him so soon, so I didn't reply.

I was off the following week and when I got back, a coworker told me he came in and started ranting to a coworker about how unfair I was for unadding him so abruptly and claimed that I was the one that insisted he add me. She said it sounded like we were really close and talked often, which wasn't even the case. She said that he seemed pissed, and that he said verbatim "I'm just really upset with her right now.". I was uncomfortable but was able to joke about it, but two days later the same coworker told me he came in again and asked her when I work next, but by policy, we're not allowed to tell customers when an employee will be working next to avoid harassment. He told her that he'd be back, because he HAS to talk to me and figure out why I'd unadd him.

I'm not necessarily scared of this guy, but I really just want to avoid an awkward situation if he comes in when I'm working, because it's inevitable. Should I message him to let him know why I unadded him but assure him it wasn't anything personal, or should I just block him and hope for the best?

tl;dr: Added a customer on FB but had to remove him because of weird posts. He took it personally and has come in twice to confront me, and stated he will be back because he "has to talk to me". I want to avoid a weird situation.

Submitted November 18, 2018 at 05:50PM by bratzdoll2000 https://ift.tt/2Kd1iEs