(Submitted by reader Steve Gray)
A woman friend and I were visiting Naples, Italy. She was on the faculty at UCLA and I live in Santa Monica. She wanted to visit the Naples La Scala Opera house and hear an opera. I wasn’t really interested so we agreed to attend only the first act. We left at intermission and began our walk down the street.
Suddenly a female voice yelled, “Sylvia!” It was someone she knew from UCLA. (Remember, this is halfway around the world and the meeting was completely coincidental.)
The woman who called out was with her husband and they were walking toward the opera house. They were hoping to catch the second act of the opera. (Why they were going to only the second act, I don’t know.) We gave them our ticket stubs and went on our way, with everyone’s plans lining up as hoped.
[EDITOR: I sometimes like to do the above-mentioned trick with movies. Maybe that’s the reason I’m the only person I know who thought Mulholland Drive made perfect sense.]
Amazingly, someone edited my submission and posted it in only a few seconds (!!) after I sent it in? This proves to my satisfaction that gnomes and trolls, who are obviously responsible for the editing, are as real as God.
Actually, you sent us this fantastic story months ago. It took us long enough to publish it that you ended up resending it mere DAYS after it finally got published. The odds must be… well, you know.
wonder what the odds are that you will meet someone you know when you are across the world. Just shows you that you should never try to hide out from your spouse with your lover. You will run into someone who knows you.