The popcorn is a lie! All we have is hours of frustration because authors love dangling hints of romance rather than actually getting into it sometime before the end and also love to fling cliches like a caped crusader flings novelty shaped boomerangs in the night.
You know, even as a man, if some random dude i'd never met said goodbye using my name when I never gave it or was wearing a name tag that would be really freaking creepy. Even more so if you are a girl I would imagine. O_O