Fifty mile walk coincidence

Fifty mile walk coincidence In my late teens President Kennedy suggested that a fit person would be able to walk fifty miles. The local paper - the Kent Messenger - took up his words and organised a challenge for its readers; - to start at midnight from Dreamland, Margate and walk through the night and the next day to the destination fifty miles away in Maidstone. A few friends thought this sounded a good way to spend a weekend. So: on a social trip to Maidstone I visited the bus station to work out the way to get to Margate at the right time. A friendly young conductress was happy to give the information and wished us well. The evening of the walk came and we took the double-decker bus for Maidstone . . . and the same blonde conductress was selling the tickets; this seemed like a good omen. The walk started, we walked through the night, past Canterbury, dawn came on, we sang to our portable transistor radios and plodded on. Getting pretty tired and footsore, by afternoon we were near Lenham, ten miles or so from the finish, when a single-decker Maidstone and District bus pulled out of a side road, turning on to our road . . . and standing at the door at the front of the bus was 'our' blonde conductress, waving and cheering, amazed as we were at the triple coincidence!!!