FREAKY FRIDAY, Part 713 (aka DOUBLE COINCIDENCE) — by Steve Nadis
It’s Thursday so it must be time for Freaky Friday. I know that sounds confusing, but that’s how I always put it. (Or maybe I don’t put it that way and am just confused.) So here’s the coincidence–or I should say the first coincidence. I was biking home with my daughter after soccer practice this evening, passing through the Cambridge Common. I commented to my daughter how crowded the playground was, considering it was 6:40 p.m. and starting to get dark. Then I realized that there was a party for our former preschool going on. I suggested stopping to say hi to some old teachers but then remembered our favorite teacher was no longer employed there. So we kept going.
A minute later, on the other end of Harvard Square, we ran into that very same teacher, coming out of a Dunkin’ Donuts. He said: “You’ll never believe it, but I was just thinking of _____ [i.e., my wife]. I saw someone ride by on a bike and it reminded me of her.” I told him, you’ll never believe it but I was just thinking of you a minute ago, explaining how I’d thought of him as we passed through the Common. So his coincidence was matched by ours, making it a rare Double.
