Advance meeting

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One day I was travelling from Lewisham in SE London to South Ealing in W London to visit a friend. I changed from the Northern Line on to the Piccadilly Line at Leicester Square Station. As I got on the Piccadilly Line train I noticed that the carriage was full, apart from two empty seats next to each other in the middle of the train. I approached the nearest seat from my end of the carriage; meanwhile, someone else sat in the other seat. The other person was the person I was on my way to visit.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:47:43 +0000Coincidence ID:3734

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Sat, 14/01/2012 - 9:51am

Returning home from a holiday in Turkey, for some reason I was flying on a different flight to the rest of my party. I was going to end up at Gatwick Airport at midnight and wasn't sure how I was going to get home to Lee in SE London from there. I was put in a taxi transfer from the resort with a couple on a different package who I didn't know. As we got talking, I discovered that they lived about half a mile from me and had a hire car waiting for them at Gatwick. They kindly dropped me off at my door.