Flight neighbour

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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It was about 1995; I was about 55 at the time. I was on a family-related trip to Aus (NSW), decided to go up to Queensland (Airlie Beach) for some SCUBA on the Barrier Reef. Signed on to a 3-day boat trip, with about 10 others, all of them total strangers in their 20s or so, origins from all over the world. Amongst them was Roger from (I think) Amsterdam who turned out to be a real Pain in the A**. About 2 weeks later, time to return to UK, flight from Sydney to Bangkok for a 2-day lay-over, back to Bangkok airport for the BA Jumbo flight to London, boarded, sat down, next seat-but-one to my left is Roger! (To be fair, I had spotted [and avoided!] him earlier, waiting in the airport lounge, so the coincidence maybe isn't that huge?)
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:48:54 +0000Coincidence ID:3738