Uptown Affairs is a column for The Tulane Hullabaloo, addressing sex, hookup culture and all things dating. If you are a Tulane student, you can submit an anonymous story to be featured here.
There’s something about a meet-cute that is so irresistible to me. Maybe it is innate, or maybe it is the result of consuming 90s-era rom-coms like they are going out of style. Nonetheless, I experienced one recently, and it made me wonder why old-fashioned dating is no longer in vogue.
Two hours into the flight, he outstretched his hand across the aisle of the Boeing 737 and said, “I’m so sorry to interrupt whatever you’re working on, but I need to know your name.” Lucky for him, I had forgotten to charge my AirPods and was struggling to finish an essay on the choppy Wi-Fi. I looked up from my laptop, perplexed and turned to face him from my aisle seat. I quickly surveyed him from head to toe — Chuck Taylor sneakers, a nice outfit and a cute smile. We got to talking…