How Austrian Men Pick Up "All the Single Ladies" in the Airport

January 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

And now with her very own personal story of a Missed Connection, is HotelChatter's Jenna. This one involves an airport, an Austrian man, bad pop music and the savvy use of Facebook. Enjoy.

Love is in the air — and it's floating over the Airport WiFi Network. Utilizing a killer combo of Boingo Wireless, iTunes and Facebook, a young Austrian lad has proven that a tech-savvy European can school any humble American in the fine art of meeting someone at an airport.

Here's what went down: after a trip to Vail, I'd headed back to New York through JFK on December 29th without any major issues. After grabbing my luggage, I parked myself in a seat inside the baggage claim area to finish up a post on HotelChatter. Naturally, I was connected to the Boingo wireless network and had my iTunes open so my girl Beyonce and her jam, "All the Single Ladies" could come through my headphones as I worked.

A little over a week later (January 7th), I received the following message in my Facebook inbox:

Hi Jenna,
is it possible that you were at JFK airport on Dec 29th. If so, thank you for sharing your iTunes Library on the Wifi Network...I enjoyed your music greatly!!
Since you're 1 of 3 Jenna Brombergs on Facebook and the only one from NY I thought I'll give it a try and write to you ;))
Greets from Austria,
Stephan

First of all, you're welcome for sharing the music, sir. Secondly, a girl can't help but wonder: what was it, exactly, about my music collection that prompted this lovely Austrian gentleman to think of me days and days later? Was it the Hilary Duff? The Ashlee Simpson? Or the inexplicable presence of three different versions of that song "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" from 30 Rock?

Of course, I wrote him back immediately and through a series of messages I found out that he'd been on his way back to Austria from Cancun, and he'd been sitting at JFK on a long layover when he'd seen my name on the list of shared iTunes libraries over the WiFi network (in the form of "Jenna Bromberg's Library," of course).

While this could be the start of either a modern-day romance novel or an up-to-date slasher film, we gotta give the dude credit: this is definitely a much more creative way to meet someone than, say, scooting up next to a lady who's already three sheets to the wind at the sports bar in the terminal.

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· Missed Connections Coverage [Jaunted]
· Airport WiFi Map [Jaunted]

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