Marine engineer

Firstly, I have quite a few personal coincidence stories and I put most of them down to having had a variety of jobs in my life meeting a lot of people. This is my favourite. A couple of years ago I was staying weekly in an Hotel in Ely, Cambs, for maybe threee weeks. there was a marine engineer in ther same hotel and a couple of times we passed each other on the M6, all the way from Cardiff on a Monday morning. Which once, is hardly surprising and twice, also not surprising either. The third time, and not on the same bit of the M6 in a hundred mile journey, I said to my colleague 'What's the chance of us seeing that Marine engineer a third time?' My colleague said 'What? Him?' as he was just passing us. I can see spotting the same marine engineer on a shared route as probable. On a Monday more so. But these were the only three occasions we did this trip and there were variables such as traffic from Wales up to the M6, stopping for fuel, stopping for a cashpoint and stopping for a fag break which would make the third passing less and less of a probability. That we mentioned him seconds before we saw him makes me wonder. I have a few other similar stories such as meeting a chap in Italy who turned out to have his garden backing onto mine in a Cardiff terraced street and all the people I meet who seem to have visited. lived and worked in the small town I live in outside of Cardiff from Aberdeen to Uttoxeter. I met one the other week in Stonehaven in Scotland who was a young lad who pipped me to the post when I said i was from Wales by telling me all about my home town which he's visited many a time. I travel a lot. This is not unusual.