Plane Passenger's Note Exchange With Stranger Leaves Internet Invested

Life & Trends Reporter

Tired of dating apps, but too shy to approach anyone directly in person? Why not break the ice with a friendly game of tic-tac-toe instead? One woman did just that on a recent flight after she spotted a "very attractive" passenger aboard the plane.

The woman shared a glimpse of the interaction in a viral video from her TikTok account @skyneverfalls. The clip has had 5.4 million views since it was first posted on March 22. According to a subsequent video shared by the poster, the encounter took place on a flight to Dubai.

A caption shared with the post reads: "Imagine this being how you I met my husband." The video shows the woman passing a note saying "I'm bored" with the tic-tac-toe grid drawn on it, along with a pencil, to the man seated in front of her.

In the later video, the woman explained: "As I was walking on the plane, I caught eyes with this guy. I found him very attractive, [with] good energy and I was like 'why not?' I wanna talk to him or at least get his attention to talk to me."

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The woman's bold approach to dating comes as no surprise as there has been a wave of Gen Zers ditching the apps in search of someone in-person.

More than half (65 percent) of dating apps were found to get deleted within just a month of instalment, according to a recent AppsFlyer survey. And of those who uninstall the apps, the vast majority (90 percent) do it within a week.

"Deleting dating apps is a rebellion against the digital dating scene that feels superficial and exhausting to so many people," Morgan Anderson, a licensed clinical psychologist and relationship coach, told Newsweek in February.

"The trend of returning to 'dating in the wild' is a breath of fresh air to so many daters who feel burnt out from endless swiping, and failed connections."

'Good Vibes'

According to the later video shared by the poster, the woman was speaking to her friend on the phone when she first spotted him and "I said out loud, on purpose, that I need someone to put my bag up."

The woman noted "I acted like I was looking for a flight attendant but, I really wanted him to help me," which he later did. "He was very polite," she said.

She then took a three-hour nap and woke up "bored as hell," according to the subsequent clip. "I thought why not just send him a note to show that like I'm interested in us...sometimes you need to do something to show that you're interested," she wrote.

She asked the flight attendant for a pen and paper and thought "what's something sweet that I could start with?" She said, "you can't go wrong" with tic-tac-toe and "everyone can play that game," so went ahead with that.

In her previous clip, the woman is shown receiving the pencil and note back from the man seated in front of her. The note shows a few boxes from the tic-tac-toe grid filled in, with a message asking, "What's your name?"

The woman is later seen smiling and holding her hand up to her face while looking at the camera and having a drink. She later flashes the note in front of the camera, with its contents blocked out by a graphic overlaid on it. A message across the clip reads "Too much information about him but a light-hearted conversation."

She is later shown handing the note back to him before later receiving it again with a message saying, "Yeah, you can join me."

In their previous note exchanges on the flight, the pair asked about their ages, as well as why he was in Dubai and what they were each getting up to there.

According to the woman, "A lot of that conversation was going so smoothly, I just ended up saying should I come join you? and he said 'yeah.'"

It's unclear where the pair went after getting off the plane, but she said they started drinking and "hit off with such good conversation."

So, what happened after they had a drink? "There wasn't much to it afterwards," the woman said.

She added: "But we did leave the airport with each other. We were staying, practically, in the same place. So we got in the cab together, still in good vibes, I was definitely drunk. And then we ended up chilling...as of now, that's all that's gone on.

"I feel like sometimes we need to realize that whatever happens on holiday [vacation], stays on holiday, and it's just a holiday thing, you know? I'm OK with it just being a holiday thing. With that being said, I don't want to just be spilling all the beans, because you never know," the woman said before the clip ended.