Bus Stop Coincidence

In 1976 I travelled from Liverpool to Sheffield to attend an interview for a job as a teacher. I had recently qualified and, prior to finding a full time job, was enrolled on a Knowsley Council scheme at Huyton. This involved project work working with other recently graduated (though, as yet, unemployed) teachers from Liverpool colleges. Sat opposite me in the Huyton office was a femail student who hailed originally from Sheffield. Other than this aquaintance, I had never had any other link or association with that city. While queuing at the Sheffield bus stop for the bus (to the school where I had the interview) I got talking to the person next to me in the queue. It transpired that she was closely related to the student I knew in Huyton (who now lived in Liverpool). At the time I was amazed that, in a chance meeting, and in a population pool of some 2 million (1.5m for Liverpool and 0.5m for Sheffield), that this connection was made. Barry Roberts (Norwich)