Airport lounge bbq attendees

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I was in the Club lounge in Johannesburg airport chatting to an Afrikaaner when our flight was called. We went to the plane, only to be told it had gone "tech" so we returned to the lounge where I sat down to read my book (having managed to lose the Afrikaaner en route!). The English chaps next to me (I'm Scottish so no connection there) asked me if I had read the author's other books. Then one of them said "were you at Martin's bbq last year?". Yep, I was and he had, obviously, been there too. We had never met before, or since, and we only met because the plane went tech - weird eh?!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:05:08 +0000Coincidence ID:4358