One such story is about Darcy McGaffic and Scott Germond, who met by chance on a plane in 2000. Despite having a boyfriend at the time, Darcy was drawn to Scott, a stranger she ended up sitting next to after switching seats. They shared a five-hour conversation filled with laughter and connection. However, Darcy had to say goodbye abruptly as her then-boyfriend was picking her up from the airport.
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Darcy couldn’t stop thinking about “the plane guy”. Encouraged by her mother, she placed a call-out in a local paper, the Sacramento News & Review, hoping to reconnect with Scott. This practice, known as “missed connections”, was popularized by the classified ad site Craigslist in 2000. It offers people a second chance to connect with someone they had a brief encounter with.
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