Meeting friend on holiday
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During a holiday in Swanage Dorset when I was about 15 my family drove from the house we were staying and past the seafront when my father needed the toilet so we stopped on the promenade in swanage and sat in the car looking out to sea across the beach. A dingy full of sea cadets was just reaching the shore, they clambered up the low sea wall directly opposite where we were parked and one of them was my best friend Micheal. He didn't even realize it was our car. I jumped out and said hello and he said they cadets were on a trip on a royal navy frigate, but it had devoted a gear box problem so the cadets were given shore leave, at the same time we happened to stop for the comfort break. So same place, same time, both locations unplanned.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:03:01 +0000Coincidence ID:5427
