Taurus that got away

I have been taken to task by somebody on one of the other boards for initiating too many "boring" (in her opinion) discussions on these boards and she suggested that I talk about "ones that got away". Well I suppose that this is kind of a story of a Taurus I once met who got away.

About 20 years ago I was taking the night train from southwestern France up to Paris (a distance of perhaps 400 miles). This would have been OK except that apparently due to some administrative mix-up or something I did not get an actual seat on the train and therefore had to stand out in the corridor for basically the entire journey. As I say it was night and I was dead tired and I only managed to stay awake by chain-smoking (I used to smoke at the time but have since given up). Anyway a woman who seemed to be in the same position started taking to me though she did not speak or understand English and my French was limited. However I did my best and we had something of a conversation (and she gave me cigarettes when my own ran out!) Apparently her name was Leila and she was half-Tunisian and was a single mother and enjoyed weight-lifting (as many Tauruses seem to) but the strange thing was that she kept on telling me that she was a Taurus and that her birthday was May 11 (which also happens to be my father's birthday and corresponds to the position of my Mars in Taurus). The funniest thing was that I hadn't even raised the subject of astrology with her so this was obviously an interest that we happened to have in common.

I think that there was a mutual attraction between us but even if we were going to Do It there was nowhere really to go for privacy and in the end she got off at Valence her hometown. But obviously I still remember her.