By SHAUNA ANDERSON
It’s a modern day love story.
Man meets woman.
The fall in love on a plane.
The get separated in customs.
They weep, moan and feel total anguish that they have lost their one true love.
A hashtag is created.
Twitter finds the long lost lovers.
They begin a cyber romance via Skype and have virtual babies.
(Well, that last bit is yet to happen…)
An Irish man has made the twittersphere swoon after his worldwide search for a woman he met on a flight from Barcelona to Dublin last week.
Jamie Kelly says he noticed the woman when he boarded the plane — so, as you do when you’re 24, he offered her some free seats in his row.
Her name was Katie and the two hit it off. However after the plane landed in Dublin, they became separated.
Jamie then turned to Facebook and Twitter to find this Katie.
The hashtag #loveatfirstflight was created, and a search ensued.
The young man’s search hit the mainstream media and he told Irish national radio:
“See, I was so engrossed during the flight and being the gentleman that I am I didn’t want to go to the toilet in front of this beautiful girl so I used the time I had at the passport control to nip to the loo.”
The news then hit Canada and Katie’s friends and family realised who he was searching for.
Katie told CBS News that she was surprise to log onto Facebook and see the fuss.
“I was obviously very surprised and flattered,” she wrote in an email to CBC News. “When I was on the plane I talked to him incessantly because I had just been travelling for two months in Italy and Spain and it was just so nice to be around English speaking people, plus I’m a talker. We had lots in common plus he was very easy on the eyes.”
The two have now connected via Facebook and are meeting up for a pint tomorrow in the Irish town of Waterford.
Will it be true love?
Will they become Facebook friends?
We will keep you posted.
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If I saw his Tweet I would have pretended not to know it was me... "canadien" [SIC!]
Years ago, before the internet. I met a young man while having a coffee in a cafe in South Yarra. I had been in Australia for a grand total of 3 days and was about to start a new job that day. He and friends were in Melbourne from NZ for the Cup. The place of my employment was mentioned in our coffee chat. Imagine my surprise when several weeks later I received a letter at work. The envelope was addressed to the manager and contained two letters. One to the manager, stating that he had met a woman who was starting a job at the company, a woman with very long brown hair who had enchanted him. Would, the manager, he asked, please the second letter to that woman?
We stayed in touch for a few years, caught up once or twice. It wasn't the romance of the century. But it was fun.