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Weird Coincidence

I’m up in Boston visiting my brother and sister-in-law and also attending the Extreme Beer Fest this weekend. On  Friday night we head out to dinner to this neat all you can eat stir-fry place named Fire+Ice (near Copley Square). I enjoy a good stir-fry so it all sounds good to me. We get there, find our seats and move on to deciding which ingredients and sauce will be first. Erin and I are standing at an open place amongst this large circular area where they fry our food on a large circular flat-top stove. Our waitress brings our margaritas. We look to our left and see my roommate Kevan standing next to us waiting to get his food cooked. We see each other and have a startled hello.

I had never mentioned to Kevin that I was going to Boston this weekend until I left him a note on Friday morning asking that he give the cat some extra food if she needed it. He had never mentioned to me that he was going to visit one of his friends from college who was on a work assignment in Boston. We had certainly never spoken about how all you can eat stir-fry would be a great dinner on Friday night around 8pm. I hope you can understand how strange of a coincidence this was.

It is one thing for us both to be in the same city without realizing it and another thing for us to be in the same random restaurant at the same random time. It is another completely ridiculous level when we realized that Kevin and his friend were seated directly next to us in the restaurant. Interestingly enough, the reservation had originally been for 6 in the event that Derrick and Holly wanted to join us but they decided to take some alone time. Perhaps Kevin and his buddy ended up taking the two seats we gave up.

It is a small world.