The Truck, the Date and the Brother-In-Law
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Happened yesterday.
Awhile back I set up a blind date for my brother-in-law, who is a truck driver, with a colleague. The one date they had fizzled and that was that.
Two years later (yesterday) I was walking to lunch with the colleague-cum-date, and as we approached a zebra crossing we stopped to allow a truck to pass by. However the truck stopped for us - it was driven by no other than the brother-in-law!
What are the odds for that?
This happened in Israel, on a small side-road entering a kibbutz and a small industrial park. It's basically a dead-end road.
There are about "The available figure for 2010 is 272 passenger cars per 1000 Israelis." - http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.VEH.PCAR.P3
Israel's population is about 8 million.
Date submitted:Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:00:11 +0000Coincidence ID:7487
