Mashallah you are getting so much savaab for this great post.... I do have a question about Sunnah #1... Is it ok for a sister to say salam to a brother first?

I do try to follow this sunnah but whenever I do say salam to a sister (usually she's in hijaab so it's fairly obvious) she's pretty much shocked and stares, trying to remember if we had met somewhere....it's funny sometimes that we forget this sunnah so often