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[OleLarssen]

So everyone got these stories of far-fetched stuff happening to them. I certainly have a few way more out there than what I'm serving tonight, but since this is fresh in memory ...

It's eleven at night and I'm thinking about my girlfriend. I write her a little letter and go out and about two blocks up to get a taxi. I bring tape, knowing that there is no mailbox and I have to plaster it to the back of their front gate. I tell the taxi where to go (in my ace Spanish) and eight minutes later we arrive. Telling the driver to hang on a second, I get out with my tape and after some fiddling, fix the letter to the gate (I hope). Returning to the taxi, I note that there's now another guy in it. The taxi driver must have though I was done with him, which I wasn't, since I've no wish to walk anywhere in San Jose after eleven o'clock. I glance at the passenger then look again, and he looks back at me. "You look familiar," he intones in his broken-ass English. "Yeah, so do you," I reply, getting into the taxi with my former student. "Where do you live," I ask. He's two suburbs off so I tell the taxi driver (who is very confused at this time) to take me home first. My former student had been visiting his girlfriend who lives two houses down from mine.

So that's my "what are the odds" story for the night. Tienes una? Do you have one?

[JAppleby]

Several weeks ago I subbed for a company class in Pavas. A couple weeks after that I was at the beach, Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste, staying at Condovac La Costa. I was rinsing the sand off at the showers by the beach, when the lady next to me asked in Spanish if I knew English. When I answered yes, she pointed to one of the showers, and there was someone waving at me. He said, "Hi, you were our teacher at IDS, remember?" I was like, "Oh, yeah, hi!" We didn't really talk, though. Then a couple weeks after the beach trip I again subbed at IDS, for different classes this time. I was walking around with someone who was helping me look for students for my class, and there was this student again! So I got to talk to him a little and ask him how the trip was.

What are the odds?

[John Hall]

Happens here more often than you think. "It's a small world after all..." here in Ticolandia!