it's a very small world

[dancingyel]

the weirdest thing happened to me today...i'm walking down castro, going grocery shopping, when i hear my name, in russian, being called. now, i had just passed someone who i thought looked maybe vaguely familiar, but i really couldn't place her, so i didn't really try. besides, i was looking forward to getting food and going home to nap. but i heard my name, so i turned around and walked over to the girl, and she says, "do you remember me?" of course, i don't, but to make a long story short, it turns out that we went to first and second grade together, in odessa. how odd is that? and she totally recognized me, too! apparently, i look the same as i did in the first grade photo. awesome. heh.

she was hanging out with her (gay) best friend at a bar called, very appropriately, the bar. i joined them for a nearly 2 hours, chatting and being generally amused. they're both very russian, but also quite nice. and at the very end of the conversation, i mentioned dancing, and the guy, leo, got really excited and said that he has a friend who's one of the top amateur dancers (rene is his name, i've seen him dance) and he (leo) wants to take lessons from him (rene) and do i need a partner and would i like to dance with leo? and i said yes and we exchanged phone numbers and we'll see what happens of it. wow! excitement! and weirdness.

so now i have a headache from the cigarette smoke and phone numbers for a girl with the same name as me from first grade and a gay boy who wants to dance with me. oh, and a business card from a salon where one of leo's friends, who ran into us, works. it's a strange world.

Comments

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

serendipity in action. Awesome. Also that 6 degrees thing. I've had some pretty amazing run-ins myself. I think one of the better ones was bumping into a friend from high school in the Marseiless airport after he got kicked off a Harvard singing tour. We were on the same plane back to London.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty amazing coincidence, running into the friend in another country. isn't it funny how these things work out? and to top it all off, it also turned out that leo (the boy) knows my old tennis teacher from when i was in high school and is good friends with his younger brother. weirdness!