Jetsetting in the Lake District

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I was brought up in Malaysia, and as an ex-pat our family were regular fliers to and from the UK. We once had a family holiday touring the north of England, and one of our stops was the Lake District. Having dinner at the hotel that evening, my mother thought she vaguely recognised someone sitting at a nearby table. After a while she went up to this man and after a few moments conversation they worked out that they had both been standing in the queue for the loo on the flight over from Malaysia a couple of weeks earlier, and they had struck up a casual conversation at the time - and here we were two weeks later in Windermere!
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Date submitted:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:19:26 +0000Coincidence ID:3376