the weird in the everyday

i met up with former workmates last night which wz nice

one of them, EM, wz delighted to be able to say she has a new bf

this is the bit she felt was quite strange

i. his flatmate is dating someone with exactly the same name as her, EM
ii. her bf had -- very briefly -- also dated this girl
iii. EM2 had applied for the exact same job that EM1 got

my theory which is mine: ok if you are called eg JOHN SMITH this kind of thing is merely not strange at all, but tiresomely workaday; and if you have an unusual name like mine (viz dubdobdee then this just NEVER HAPPENS -- however there is a Band of Potential Peculiarness in the middle, where it's just likely enough and just rare enough to spook everyone

(it also reminded i once had a conversation w.EM when she was at work -- and the world's most loveably teasable person -- in which she wz goin "OMG!" at some bit of actually-not-that-astonishing synchronicity and i was pointing out the amazing torrent of times that synchronicity DIDN'T occur, the REAL omg factor, and she wz ggettin very puzzled)

lovely kon tiki

:D