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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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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)
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)