Urinary coincidence

We have experienced two remarkable coincidences with a couple who are our closest friends. We now live some distance apart, they are south west of Birmingham and our home is north Oxfordshire. In the first coincidence I was driving down the M1 returning from a meeting in Harrowgate and needed to take a comfort break. This was the only time I have used that motorway in years. I pulled into a service station north of Leicester and went to the gents. Looking to my left, a few stalls away, also relieving himself was our friend. They were returning from a short break - which we were not aware of - and he also had the need for a comfort break. The M1 is a road they also rarely use. On another occasion, we were on holiday with relative in the Lake District and knew that the friends were away on holiday in Europe. We were driving back to our holiday home after a walk and stopped at a zebra crossing to see it was our friends crossing the road. They had to cut short their European holiday because one of their children became ill. When they got home the child wasn't as sick as they thought and to salvage something of their holiday they came to the Lakes for a long weekend.