I think everyone has a story of the one that got away. Since my story took place in Britain, I thought I'd post it here.

On a flight over to Heathrow from NY, I had a brief chat with a stewardess as I was boarding my plane. Didn't think much of it beyond small talk and the encounter quickly escaped my mind as I got onto a connecting flight to Manchester. I check in to my hotel and take care of business for the next few days. Gloomy weather, but the food wasn't as bad as some say. Not sure why fish and chips are so popular. This was my first time visiting Britain, but I was there on business so I didn't have time to take in the sites. I was hoping to visit London on my last day before departing, but the bombing in Soho kept me away. So I looked into Liverpool instead, which was pretty close by train. Home of the Beatles and all that. Plus, the maritime museum and the Tate was right next door.

So on the last day of my visit, I was walking around Picadilly Manchester station to kill time before boarding my train to Liverpool when out of the blue, a petite woman with flowing brown hair comes up to me and asks if I live in Manchester. I have no idea who this girl is, except she's really hot. I tell her I'm from across the pond and that I'm on my way to Liverpool for a little site seeing before returning home. The conversation goes on for a few more minutes all the while I'm asking myself why this woman chose to pick me up in the middle of a crowded station.

Sensing my bewilderment, she reminds me she's the stewardess from the flight into Heathrow. I didn't recognize her without the cute uniform, so I'm all apologetic as I had completely forgotten about her. What an incredible coincidence running into her like that.

It turns out she lives just outside of Manchester and that she had the next 3 days off from work. Hint, hint. Alas, I'm leaving later that evening and I'm just about to get on the train. She hands me her mobile number and tells me to call her if I needed anything. Such a sweet, petite girl with beautiful brown hair. Eventually, we say our goodbyes and go our separate ways.

I never did call her, but every once in a while I think about what could have been had I decided to go with her instead of getting on that train. Serendipitous moments like that are rare, although I didn't recognize it until it was too late.

Has anyone noticed Virgin Atlantic has the most beautiful stewardesses?

It is not too late to call her, if you want to.

Just need some tight verbal skills and a relaxed, fun and confident attitude.

Some of the members here could give you specific advice on this, that I cannot.

Just suggesting the possibilities.

Beautiful story... Maybe you should try to call her, these things happen for a reason ya know.

Go phone her...!!! im sure she's kicking herself cos you walked away.

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LOL give me her number, because I m a student studying in manchester :P

Thanks for the comments guys. It's been over 5 years since this story took place and I lost that number during a move some years back. But it's not something I'm kicking myself over since I've had some great girlfriends since that time. I wanted to post the story since it was such a serendipitous moment, something I may never experience again in my lifetime. What are the chances of that girl even recognizing me in a sea of people in a completely different city at that exact moment in time? Makes you wonder...

Anyways, I thought the story would encourage others to post about their "The one that got away" tales.

In case you guys are curious, she looked a lot like that actress Kristin Kruek from the tv series, Smallville. Hapas are hot!

Well you win some, you lose some init... And maybe it'll happen more than once in your lifetime..

One thing is for sure - and its been proven to me time and time again - that lucky encounters like this are ALWAYS random and happens when you least expect it.

Yeah i had one. Kinda

Long story short.

Me and my friend went to this shopping centre to do some shopping . Anway we told ourselves that i was wingman and he was captain if a hot chick caught our eyes. Not long he saw a fairly short blonde, with a killer body. Anyway so i said lets go for it but he felt unconfident was intimated by her. So i decided with my asian 'prowess' to seize the oppotunity to break the ice. When i said hi to her, her face went blush red and had a smile on her face (i think i'm in the game), anyway then i tell my friend to do the rest...it was a disaster. He was so shy that he bascially could barely talk. She kinda of lost interest. she gave him the wrong number and after that event i kicked myself for the next 48hrs...

tis true. Hmm maybe i should daydream my days from now on...put myself vunerable to when i least expect it...

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