On The Big Breakfast Blaa, we love a Love Story, and particularly when a potential love story involves the ultimate ‘what-if.’ Rory contacted WLR in an effort to find a woman he had met in Waterford City two weeks ago.

When Rory Met Ariana

Joining Ollie and Dymphna on air, he reflected on how he saw her just after the HSE building on the approach to the SETU campus in the city as he was en route to work.

They didn’t know one another, and had never met before, but in the way of these things, she caught his eye.

Normally, he said, he would say nothing, but something in him told him to be brave and tell her she was beautiful and to introduce himself.

They walked together towards the bus stop, chatting all the way, as Rory was on his way to work, and she was on her way to catch a Local Link bus, he believes to Dungarvan.

Plagued with Thoughts of the Bus-Stop Farewell

He says he contacted WLR at the risk of sounding a little ‘creepy’ but he said he just felt like the connection was something he can’t get out of his head, and he needs to know if it could be anything more. 

Rory says he is filled with regret for just walking away from the bus stop and not suggesting the possibility of them seeing each other again, or if that would even be something she would be interested in.

Rory believes her name is Ariana, or something close to that, and that she possibly cares for family members full-time.

He acknowledges that she said she didn’t have a phone, which he is aware may be a gentle brush-off, but he’s also hoping maybe it was true, and that the connection he felt was mutual and reciprocated.

Apart from those details, he has no more to go on, but says he is torturing himself wondering ‘What If?’

Maybe ‘Ariana’ was interested, and maybe she really wasn’t. Either way, Rory said this was his way of trying to be brave and say how he feels.

Could this be a love story set against the back drop of the local bus and the bus stop? Or will Rory chalk it down to a nice conversation and a chance meeting and move on?

You can listen back to the interview with Rory here.