BRENDAN C

When on holiday in the island of Minorca I bumped into a co-employee of the same large company. We had only minimal work contact and he worked in Bedfordshire and I worked in London. We had no forknowledge of each other's holiday arrangements. Coincidence 1: We booked the same week. He stayed in the north of the island. I stayed in the south. Coincidence 2: On the Thursday morning of that week we both decided to drive to a large town on the east of the island. Coincidence 3: On walking back to the car at the end of my visit I passed through a small plaza. I heard someone call out my name. My colleague had decided to buy a coffee and was sitting drinking it before walking back to his car. If he hadn't done that we would never have met or ever known of each other's presence on the island.