corsican coincidence

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My husband and I (we live in UK) were on our first four week holiday in Malta and asked the rep to organise several trips - he booked us on a catamaran trip to Corsica. On arrival in Corsica we were told to board any one of three coaches for those speaking English.<br /> My husband noticed a man wearing a baseball cap with a derogatory name on it. Tongue in cheek (as we know the American jokes about this name) he asked if that was where the wearer came from. No he said I come from a small place an hour outside of New York - oh said my husband, we were an hour outside of New York a couple of months ago. The American said he was from Carmel, New York - we said if we said the name Douchkoff would it mean anything? He said he would be in court with Kevin (my husband's cousin) on Monday. He was an attorney and the cousin a detective in NYPD. There are very few Douchkoffs in USA.<br /> The meeting was even more coincidental because he was supposed to do the trip a few days before but high winds had prevented the sailing - we almost missed the trip because our previously arranged transport did not come and we only got to the catamaran minutes before it sailed.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:38:45 +0000Coincidence ID:4537