Mrs. Pat J

Three coincidences that occurred during the 80's and one very recent one. 1. At that time we owned a lovely chocolate and cream Morgan car. One day we parked it at Treyarnon Bay, North Cornwall. Returning to the car, a family were admiring it and we chatted. Spur of the moment, on the way home, we decided to make a detour so we could buy some fish and chips from a favourite shop in St. Columb. We parked close to the shop and, by chance, exactly opposite the home of the family we had just met. They were waving at their window, "We thought you might be delivering it for us!" 2. We attended Speech Day at our son's school, Bryanston, held in a large amphitheatre in the grounds, seating many people. I knew that the grandson of family friends who lived in Australia was a pupil, but we had never met him or his parents. I said to my husband "I wonder if Ronny and Ian's daughter-in-law will be here?" At that the woman directly in front of us turned round, smiled and introduced herself. It was her! 3. For many years we lived in Qatar and I worked for the local radio station. There were very few 'Brits' working full-time in the radio and television department. Our family were on holiday in New Zealand and in Auckland airport, on our way home, we bumped into a British colleague and his family, not knowing they would be there. (At Heathrow we often saw people we knew travelling to Qatar, but in a small airport the other side of the world, I felt the chances of casually meeting a colleague were remote.) Then, very recently, I had this experience. Our son bought us a new television set as a Christmas present. We put our old set upstairs. Later I went on to the John Lewis website and was seconds away from ordering a table for this, but, a ring at the door halted my doing so. It was an unexpected delivery of a television table, also from our son, which arrived in the 'nick' of time.