A Question of Timing 1

I spent my honeymoon in Venice. In the hotel we were staying in, my wife and I saw a couple with a very young baby and we commented to each other on how difficult it must be taking a newborn on a holiday like that. That weekend, the day after we got back from the holiday, we were invited to dinner by friends. They told us another couple were coming but were held up because they had a new baby. They also said this couple had just been to Venice too. When they arrived we had the obvious conversation. "Oh, we've just been to Venice as well. Where were you staying?" Same area. "Which hotel?" Same hotel. Light bulb moment. It was the couple we had seen. Had we been invited to dinner with the same people say a month later, the conversation might have been "Oh, we were in Venice at around that time. What a coincidence" but the connection might not have been made.