Crossed Paths

In the week after Christmas 2014 we went to see Peter Pan, a Pantomime in Dartford Kent, The venue was some 60 miles by road from our home in West Sussex. Whilst waitiing in the theatre's foyer for admission to the auditorium were were standing close to a family which included a young man who I guess would be in his mid twenties. Unfortunately he was "not all there" and repeatedly pulled an old mobile phone out fo his pocket and had a fairly loud but incoherent "conversation" with no-one as the phone was obviously not switched on. This happened probably half a dozen times whilst we were waiting and was tolerated or ignored by his family and friends. The doors opened and the family merged into the audience and we enjoyed and couple of hours pantomime starring Craig Revell Horwood, The following weekend we took an hour long train ride to London to visit the National Portrait Gallery and wandered round for an hour or so admiring the high quality paintings. As we were leaving we took a short diversion to get back to the main staircase/escalator. And who was coming up as we were going down? None other than the young man from the previous week's theatre trip talking into his phone and accompanied by members of his family! I wonder if they recognised us?