Just last week I had an experience related to this. I travel east coast to west coast almost weekly for work and have experienced my share of delays, but up until last week I never thought of it as a good thing. Last week I arrived to LAX at 8pm to wait for my scheduled 10pm flight home. Upon arrival, I was informed that the flight was delayed until 11:40pm. Frusterated, I went and sat in the general terminal area, dreading the next 3 hours. The terminal was slowly filling up since all the flights were delayed and a guy on a cell phone sat right next to me. After overhearing his conversation, I found out that his delay was worse than mine and because of it, he was missing his connection and would have a 5 hour layover (after a red-eye, yikes!!). So when he got off the phone I looked at him and said "I don't mean to eavesdrop but i'm not gonna lie... a 5 hour layover is gonna suck." Luckily, he laughed. From then on, we spent the next few hours talking non-stop, enjoying a beer (and a shot) at the airport bar. The time went by so fast, I was almost wishing there was more of it! We laughed and shared stories, he was the most friendly, entertaining (not to mention good looking) peerson that I have ever met at an airport. We both agreed that this was better than we thought since we had eachothers company. He walked me to my gate and exchanged contact information. I got a nice email from him the other day and am curious to see where things go? If nothing else I have a new friend, but honestly..I can't wait til work sends me back out there just to see what may happen (which should be in the next few weeks)! It's not love, but I believe things happen for a reason and you just never know!

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