Crossing paths with close friends
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We hadn't seen, or exchanged news, with some close friends in some months and had just arrived at our hotel in Menorca. We stepped out onto the main road and walked straight into our friends. The same thing happened, with the same friends, when we went for a day trip to Eastbourne - we walked into the same coffee shop as they were sitting in. The husband of the same couple worked for an electricity company and my husband and I went for a day trip to Marrakesh. There were a couple of hundred people on the plane/trip and we found we kept getting sat next to a particular couple, just by chance. In the end, we shared a horse carriage with them (just the four of us) and found out he worked for an electricity company and, guess what, was a close colleague of our friend, who he had been drinking with a couple of nights before the trip.
Date submitted:Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:44:22 +0000Coincidence ID:5933
