Beautiful young woman gets a charge(r) from columnist

I’m looking for a beautiful young woman from Fiji. Which, if you’ll let me explain, isn’t as creepy as it sounds.

This particular beautiful woman sat next to me in the coach section on an American Airlines flight last Sunday. There aren’t a lot of perks in coach, but sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with beautiful young women definitely would be one.

We don’t speak. She’s busy studying information in a binder. I’m busy trying to make the over-the-ear headphones I just purchased sync with my iPhone. The salesman — who probably was moonlighting from his day job as a junior high student — had assured me it would be simple.

So I spend the first 50 miles of the flight swiping and tapping my cellphone, trying to make it sync. At one point it does and “The Winner Takes it All” by ABBA pours into my ears. I sit back hoping to enjoy it and many of the other similarly groovy songs stored on my phone. But then the same song plays again. And again. No matter how big a fan of ABBA you may be, a hundred miles of “The Winner Takes it All” gets old.

After another 50 miles of swiping and tapping, the beautiful young woman turns to me and asks, “Would you like some help with that?” Obviously she’s noticed I’m having trouble. Or maybe “The Winner Takes it All” is pouring into my ears, out through my nose and driving her crazy.

Whatever the reason, she determines the headphones need to be charged. She takes a tiny charger out of her purse, attaches it to a cable that came with the headphones and solves the problem. Then we have a nice conversation and I learn that her family came to America from Fiji, she lives in Greensboro, N.C., and is flying to Dayton for flight attendant training, which means she’ll be spending a month in a local motel.

At the end of the flight I thank her for her help and we go our separate ways. Unfortunately, she inadvertently takes the charger cable with her, which means I can’t charge the headphones and what I basically have now is a very expensive set of earmuffs.

I’ve tried calling the motel where she said she’d be saying, but you don’t get very far calling a motel and asking, “Hi, do you have a beautiful young woman from Fiji in any of your rooms?”

So if you happen to encounter this woman, please have her contact me. I swear I have no ulterior intentions. Besides, my guess is she wouldn’t have much interest in a guy who has ABBA on his cell phone.