Four weeks ago at a football game in Athens, Georgia I sat five seats away from Katie Greene (@KatieDawg), an old college friend of mine who I now keep in touch with primarily through Twitter. It seems logical that we might cross paths since we both graduated from UGA and were in fact at a UGA football game. But she lives in New York City these days, and this proximity was entirely accidental and unplanned. It got me thinking: How many close encounters like this one happen probably all the time and we never even realize it?
Kinda neat to think about, especially if you’re active on social networking sites like Twitter or LinkedIn, where you may not have ever met a person despite frequent interaction or close mutual friends. So you share some degree of interpersonal acquaintanceship and yet you never even realize that you could be literally 15ft away from each other IRL. Weird.
Do you have a story about a surprise rendezvous with distant familiarities? Tell it in the comments.