I don’t know if it was that random. It may be that as *westerners* we tend to think of ourselves a individuals. Members of some cultures think of themselves and their communities as relations first individuals second. So to them this kind of connection is not freakish as normal.

If this had have happened in your neighbourhood that familiarity would have modified the event into the “guess who I bumped into today honey” category but because you were out of your day to day neighbourhood this interaction entered into the utterly WOW category.

Not withstanding this fireseide anthropology, still a great story.

Cheers
Taura
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