Holiday coincidence

In October 2010 my husband and I decided to spend a week in a rented cottage in Wales. Just before we left I bumped into an old friend, Mildred, whom I hadn't seen for some time. I told her I was in a hurry as we were off to Wales and as I left her she called out "did you know Zara (her daughter) was expecting a baby?" We arrived in Wales late in the evening and decided the following day to make a trip to Snowdonia. As we passed through a small town I mentioned to my husband that we needed to buy a few things and asked him to stop at the first shop where he could find a parking space. He went in to do the shopping but because he was rather a long time I went in to see where he had got to. There were a couple of items that I had forgotten to mention that we needed so I picked them up and went to the check-out. As I went through the assistant said to me "oh, you look different today", to which I replied that she must be mistaking me for someone else as I had only just arrived in Wales. She looked puzzled and was obviously trying to think where she had seen me before. I heard her mention Seaford to another assistant so I told her that is where I had just come from. It turned out that she had lived just half a mile from me ten years previously and remembered seeing me at the local post office and at my son's school. What was even stranger was that her daughter knew me and my son very well and had been the girl friend of my son's best friend Alex. It was this friend's sister whom I had been informed, only the day before back in Seaford, was expecting a baby and once again as I left the store I was asked the question "did I know Zara was having a baby"? How very strange that I was asked the same question by the last person I spoke to in Seaford and, after travelling several hundred miles, the first person I spoke to in Wales!! What a small world it is indeed!!