It was 8 days before Christmas and my girlfriend asked me if I would play the piano for her nursery school students’ recital. I was there for 2 hours and she offered to treat me to lunch for helping out.
While we were having our lunch, a family walked by our table; dad, mom, grandmom and youngest daughter. As they proceeded to sit at the table behind us, the mom came over to our table. I recognized her immediately but she was focused on my girlfriend, asking her if she remembered teaching her now 22 year old daughter. That was 18 years ago and to her surprise, my girlfriend did remember her.
I knew the family from many years ago and once we said our “hellos” the wife realized who I was and couldn’t get over that I knew her daughter’s nursery school teacher.
It turns out that I have known the nursery school teacher for 30 years. And for the family who walked into the restaurant, I have known them for about 15 years or so as the dad worked for our family business and his daughter played youth sports with my daughter.
The weirdest part of this story is that just the night before, the mom had a dream about the nursery school teacher. Her daughter was coming home from college the next day and perhaps she was reminiscing about her daughter’s childhood. Who knows, but how coincidental was it that they walked into that particular restaurant at just the right moment.
My girlfriend was running ½ an hour late and asked me to pick the restaurant. The reason I chose that one was convenience to where we were and neither one of us had been there in awhile. It certainly was a coincidence; however, I think we were meant to end up there and at just that time to fulfill the mom’s dream!
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