meeting the neighbours

we were on holiday in florida and we were in a q waiting to get a table in a beach cafe when a couple came up behind us and were told it would ta ke about 30 mins for a table i suggested as we had a table in 5 minutes they could join us which they did.we then discovered that they lived 6 doors away from us on a golf course in an out of the way road,we also had many joint friends. several years later in florida i went shoppin g to a mall 30 miles from our flat.i left my wife and sat on a bench as i was tired and started talking to a lady who wa s staying in the same flats as us,not only that we went for a meal that evening about 5 miles frm home and met the same lady and her familly. about 10 years ago when in china my wife persuaded me to meet her in hkong.we met and when shopping and a friend who i had not seen for 30 years was walking behind me with a customer who i met 2 weeks before in portugal. there are many other time when these things have happened to me where the odds seem millions to1 but obviously they are not .