Networking - Natalie

[jack]

OK, I know most people don't care about my sorting entries into types, but it still amuses me. Hmm, I should probably put the categorization in mood instead. Anyway, I decdied "stupid coincidences showing cambridge is too small" should have its own category. Soon maybe "stupid coincidences in the carlton" will, and meeting someone who wrote a program I use doesn't count unless it's obscure :)

D: I don't think you've met my other half.
Me: Wait...
???: You do look familiar.
Me: Did you used to dance?
???: Yes.
Me: Did you used to have long hair?
???: Yes.
Me: Natalie?
???: Yes! Jack? How are you, it's been so long.
Me: In the dining room with the dagger?¹

Apparently I even met them together about two years ago, and forgot all about it till (gr?)² now.

Other coincidences include meeting my best friend in London with no prior arrangement; another friend meeting half of his coursemates on a field trip in london, with no prior arrangement; forwarding an email forward from mum to a mailing list, and having someone respond "I know who started that"; and stumbling into a school friend's ex in a Newnham corridor.

What are your favorite stories?

[1] Punchline altered to protect the conversation from being too boring. No girlfriends were harmed in the creation of this post.
[2] I adopt the convention of (sp?) representing an unknown spelling I can't check easily, and (gr?) an unknown point of grammar :)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

True. Rosy's explanation is that there's only a few thousand real people in the world, and a lot of 'crowd' that looks like people but isn't truly sentient. So when you *meet* someone, it's quite likely they know other real people.

When I met Natalie I thought she was very nice, but not having met her since thought I must have been mnistaken in assuming she was real, until now :)