From Qatar to New York

"You need to tighten your shoe-lace, you might fall because of it", said the young man wearing large, dark, black glasses  to the beautifully petite woman standing in front of him in the queue waiting to check in to the UAE bound flight that was just leaving in couple of hours or, perhaps, a little later, as some people said, due to some issue on the runway. 
"Oh, ok. Thank you very much", replied the beautifully petit woman. The man, who had been waiting for quite a while, to find some genuine excuse to talk to the woman was initially happy to see the woman's loose shoe lace, but was again left awry, since the only option he had had been exhausted, and he could not light up a conversation. He started again to think of some other, genuine excuse to restart a conversation. "She seems friendly," He thought to himself, "Let me just asks her where she is going". But he instantly scolded himself silently  for letting such a stupid idea run through his head, obviously she was going to UAE, that is why she was in that very queue. "But what if she plans to continue her journey, like himself, to another destination?" His train of thought was momentarily disrupted by the man behind him in the queue as he asked him to move forward. 

The young man wearing large, dark, black glasses was an executive in a pharmaceutical conglomerate. He belonged to Egypt and was on a business trip to New York from Qatar where he worked as the zonal manager. He hardly looked his age, being 35 he hardly looked more than 26, thanks to his shapely features. He had the looks of quite a first class gentleman and had an air of innocent cuteness about him. From the glossy leather shoes that he wore, the suitcase and the formal suite he was wearing, it would seem he was dressed to be photographed as a business man.  

The beautifully petite woman belonged to Greece and had been working in Doha as a public relations officer for a five star hotel. In her case, age did not seem to be so kind. She did look something like 30 years, her real age being 29. She too was wearing a rather formal dress. She appeared rather cold and stern, despite being beautifully petite. 

When the lady's turn came to get the boarding pass, the man behind was so desperate. He could not talk to the lady who had impressed him so much. He just wanted to see if the lady would travel beyond UAE. He tried to look over her shoulder to see if she would get a second boarding pass but a sick look from the man standing beside the lady issuing the boarding passes stopped him from peeping any longer. As the lady left, his gaze followed her, and only stopped doing so when the lady issuing the ticket asked him, in a rather high tone, "Excuse me, can I help you?" He instantly turned to the lady, with a smile of embarrassment  shining on his face for a few seconds, and handed his ticket and passport to the  lady.