Bumping into Son

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I was driving home on an unusual route (for me) at around 3.45/4pm, listening to a Radio 4 programme about 'Coincidences'. As I drove past a bus stop, someone leapt out of the crowd and it was my son (aged around 15). I asked him what on earth he was doing at that bus stop (which was quite a long way from his school and in the opposite direction from home) and he said that he often went to that bus stop in order to get a seat before it would stop at the 'normal' school stop. Had he not leapt out of the crowd at the precise moment I was driving past, I would not have seen him there. It seemed even more of a coincidence bearing in mind the programme I was listening to at that moment!
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:35:08 +0000Coincidence ID:3454