Saturday, July 08, 2006

It's a small world...

I had to attend a work function on Thursday night - black tie, dinner suit, the works - and I found out an amazing coincidence...

It was a printing industry awards night, and as my company had been nominated to pick up one of the twenty one awards, we booked a table and invited a few clients too. I'd been to similar functions before - all the men in dinner jackets, looking very James Bond-ish, and all the ladies in their ball gowns or summer dress glamour. The food was reasonable, and service very good. The comedian/compere was OK - an Irish fella whose name I didn't catch - Domnall someone? - and at least he admitted he knew absolutely nothing about print! He pushed the ceremonies along, and handing out twenty-odd awards went very smoothly (sadly, we did not win!). At the end of the evening, the options were to trundle home, or chat, or go up to the mock casino with paper money laid on to play with.

I then heard a colleague, whom I've only met on a couple of occasions (as we don't work in close proximity) mention that he was sharing a cab back to the offices (to drop off two colleagues who had left their cars there) and then to his home in Orpington. He asked how I was getting home and where I lived, and offered to drop me off too as Bromley wasn't far out of the way, and he didn't think it wise for James Bond lookalikes to be wandering around London late at night (I didn't see the problem...).

We therefore all left together, and after dropping off the other two guys, I asked where he lived in Orpington.

He told me Sevenoaks Way, which I know very well as I went to senior school there.

I then asked for him to be more specific, and he told me near the Broomwood pub. I raised an eyebrow, so he asked if I knew it. I said yes, as I used to see a girl who lived almost next door in Broomwood Road. Amazingly, he now lives opposite that house, and knows her parents who still live there! In fact, he'd had a chat to her mum just a couple of days earlier...

It's a small world!

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