Arriving in sync

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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My future wife and I were moving from rented accomodation in Clapham, south London, to the same in Nottingham. The idea was to get all our meagre possessions in an old Renault. We did, but unfortunately there wasn't then room for the future wife. She went back in the house to get her handbag, etc before going to get the tube and a train, without knowing what the train times were. I set off to drive across the river and up through a busy London on a Saturday early afternoon and then negotiate the M1 up to junction 25 and into the centre of Nottingham. Some 3-odd hours later, my wife was just opening the gate to the new front garden as I pulled up outside.
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:29:16 +0000Coincidence ID:5330