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The Math Geek In Me

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I rather like math equations and oddities in this world. This book rather fascinated me and caught my attention. I was reading a chapter about long odds and coincidences..

An example was given, when a young woman was showing her new husband, a photo of herself when she was a child. At further inspection, her new husband was in the background. Somehow they concluded their marriage was destiny.

Coincidence Happens

I was walking by the lake the other day, and my brother was talking to a couple. It turned out they were from my hometown, which may or not be a coincidence because we were on the east coast and at a fairly popular lake resort.

My Off Hand Comment

I didn’t even break stride as I asked them if they brought any sandwiches from V&S. It was one of my favorite sandwich shops when I lived back east, and it carries a tad bit of nostalgia.

They looked at me quizzically and said.

“Our family owns that sandwich shop.“

Big Coincidences are Not Destiny

I asked them if they came up with a decent vegan hoagie.

They replied.

No

One response to “The Math Geek In Me”

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    Joel Dippold

    I absolutely love stories like this, probably because they show the world as a small and interconnected place, which is not usually how we see it.

    My sister was on a ferry coming back from Pelican, Alaska. Pelican is one of the more remote outposts of the Southeast Alaskan archipelago. She remarked to the guy standing next to her at the railing that waves were so big that it was right like riding a roller coaster. He said once he had a job operating a roller coaster. She asked which one, and it was the roller coaster near our house Minnetonka, Minnesota, and he worked there when we used to go there, so they crossed paths a half a century earlier. But the real coincidence, the really exquisite thing, is that they even found out about that coincidence.

    A friend of mine was driving across the country and stopped at an antique store in Montana. On a whim, they bought this picture of a wrestling team–a really old sepia-toned thing. Years later, her mother was visiting from the East Coast and said, “Where did you get that picture of Uncle Ralph?”

I would love to hear you opinion as well

Hello,

I’m Mark

His friends observe Mark seems wired a little differently. Perhaps it’s more likely that noticing little things often missed by others is a relic of a quieter, simpler time. He has a way with words, which he refuses to let be hindered by sub-par typing skills. People have great stories to tell if you sit and listen.

A belief dear to Mark is that there is certain beauty in the world. You simply have to look for it.

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