Why can't serendipity happen to me?

So you see this dashing man. He's tall, got salt-and-pepper hair. He's standing 2 people away from you in a queue. He's reading. He wears glasses. He's not terribly good-looking, but yet he's very attractive. He carries himself well.

Then he opens his mouth and speaks too (not to me) and you hear the voice, the accent. It's fine. Very fine. You check out the luggage and make an assessment.

You go to google the next day and you actually manage to find out. He's some hot-shot at some media channel.

You wonder, you shake your head and you say, naah! Serendipity is meant for others, and in story books and films.

Sigh! But it can't be that difficult for it to happen right? I've been praying hard. I've been visualizing. But what does my heart and mind say? It asks, how can it happen to you?