This happened to me about 35 years ago, when I was around 20.
The announcement came over the tannoy, all flights from London Heathrow were delayed. The fog was settling in. I reread the same newspaper page again and sighed. So close to leaving, I'd even made it to the departure gate for my trip to Paris.
Across from my gate was another clutch of passengers waiting to depart for another destination, their flight also delayed. It looked like being a long night on uncomfortable chairs.
A blonde woman much older than me waiting at the adjacent gate caught my eye.
Twice.
Then again. Her smirk wasn't exactly a wink but it said the same. Excited and nervous, I stared down at the paper. Her destination said Copenhagen, and she looked pretty Danish. Pretty and Danish, in fact - blonde hair bunched up on her head, white blouse, dark jacket, long skirt, brown knee-high boots. And that mischievous look, lasered onto me.
I felt targeted, in the best possible way. We played the staring game, both smiling when one of us looked away first. She looked in her mid-40s, and so mysterious, so overwhelmingly attractive.
We stared and played and smiled and grinned and after around 20 minutes of the distant, no-talking flirting, she just stood up, and imperiously nodded her head for me to follow her.