Art you are not pathetic at all. Human yes. Clients can be human, therapist can't.

I hope you get to talk about what transpired yesterday and you come away with the understanding it would have been perfectly okay to sit and chat with her. Asking her why she was their would not be appropriate and her asking you calls for the same privacy etiquette.

Knowing therapy ethics and what she said years ago about seeing each other in public, how would you have felt if you were tongue-tied and she didn't greet you first? I would have been pissed. I am glad she made the first move.