About five years ago, someone told me a former co-worker of mine had moved to my neighbourhood, about four blocks away. If this was a friend, I would have confirmed this with the person in question directly but this was more of an acquaintance, so I didn’t need to confirm that badly. Plus, I figured with him living so close, we’d surely run into each other at the local shops or other locations.
Well, five years went by and I didn’t see him once. I began to wonder if that information I was told was wrong or if he’d moved away without me knowing. How close can you live to another person without those two people never seeing each other?
About three weeks ago, I was out on my daily walk to the waterfront park when lo and behold, I saw my former co-worker at the park. We exchanged pleasantries and I explained to him that I knew he had moved close by years ago, yet I had never seen him around locally until now. I half expected him to reveal to me that he’d been living as a hermit up until that week but he did no such thing. We said our goodbyes and I wondered when the next time I might run him into, since it took five years to even see each other once.
About two weeks later, I was having chat with a friend at my local market. He had come to have lunch with me and afterwards he was enjoying an iced coffee outside. We were chatting at a patio table when surprise, my former co-worker sauntered on by. Another sighting in less than a month?!?! Perhaps this was going to be a common occurrence now.
We joked that we were going to see each other everywhere now. It’s been another two weeks so far and I haven’t seen him again. When will the next sighting be?