Argentinian encountered
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I'll try to do this as briefly as possible.
Two years ago a friend and I took a trip to a beach in Mexico (we're both Mexicans but we live in the city) where among the people we met was the hostel's night watcher, a young argentinian man.
We went on with our lives and a couple months back we decided to go out for some beers near my place in Mexico city. We were there for a while and eventually we started chatting about that trip we made to the beach and about the night watcher among other things, we were sitting in the second floor of the building in a terrace that overlooked a park, when my friend saw something behind me down at the park and interrupted me to say "is that him?" and lo and behold there was the argentinian guy we met two years ago at a little town that we just happened to be talking about sitting in a bench.
We called to him and he came up and we talked and we all agreed it was a weird coincidence to meet there but it was even weirded to my friend and me because we were JUST talking about him.
Date submitted:Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:56:43 +0000Coincidence ID:7959
