A Rainy Day Coincidence

A couple of years ago I made a train trip from Haslemere in Surrey up to London on business. When I reached Victoria Station I realised I lacked a vital piece of information and the only person from whom I could obtain that information lived in Southend. I rang his landline and his mobile but both were on answerphone. Undaunted I took a taxi from Victoria to the Old Brompton Road. It was pouring with rain, really hard. When the taxi arrived at my destination I paid the driver while still in the cab, got out of the cab a\d with my head down against the pouring rain, I sprinted across the wide pavement into the bulding. Half way across the pavement I collided quite violently with someone walking along the pavement. Yes it was the man who I had been trying to call in Southend who was in London on a different mission. Two seconds either way and I would have missed him. It made quite an impression on my brain!