Yesterday at the gym I was in my usual Thursday 9am class and the teacher had us partner up. So I turned to my right and wound up in an unlikely paring up with an older woman. After the beginning awkwardness, she mentioned that this class was worse than labor - she had 3 kids. "Me too," I said. I won't go through our entire conversation, but it mostly followed that course of "Me toos!" Here are the things that I found out I have in common with this unlikely Conditioning Class partner of mine:
We both have 3 kids,
spaced 2 years apart,
2 boys and 1 girl (who's spoiled by their daddies)
Her son (and my husband and I) were both stationed at Fort Bragg
We both went to graduate school at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Her husband and I both studied Psychology.
Her first date with her husband, and my engagement to Ric both happened at the Carolina Coffee Shop on Main St. in Chapel Hill.
So basically, this random woman next to me, 20 years my senior who I'd probably never strike up a conversation with normally, and I both fell in love in the same restaurant in the same small town in NC 20 years apart and 1600 miles from here.
The world is small.
1 comments:
and yet, something pulled you to have this meeting... I say you had a 'sighting' (-:
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