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▪ Coincidences (stories about strange, unexpected events and connections)
▪ Misunderstandings (stories about people getting the wrong idea)
▪ Unintended meanings (stories about saying things that aren’t quite what you mean)
To give you a quick taste, here are three of our recent favourites.
A One day, I noticed that some bananas, which I had bought about a week before, were going brown. ‘Let’s make some banana cakes,’ I said to my six-year-old daughter, Fatima. It took quite a long time, but it kept Fatima busy and we had fun making them. When they were done, we tried one and it was actually delicious, so I suggested taking one to Mr Aziz, the old man who lives next door. When Mr Aziz opened the door, before I could say a word, Fatima told him: ‘We had some old bananas that were going bad, so instead of throwing them away we made them into a cake for you. I hope you like it.’
B A couple of years ago, I was talking to an old school friend that I’d kept in touch with when she mentioned another person called Jan, who had been in the same class as us. Neither of us had heard from her, or even thought about her, for over ten years. I didn’t give the conversation another thought until three days later, when I was working in London for two days. As I was travelling to the office, I saw a woman on the train. Our eyes met and we seemed to recognise each other. ‘Excuse me,’ she said, ‘but are you Susan?’ It was, of course, Jan. As it turned out, she was only visiting London for a few days and was about to return to Italy, where she had lived for over five years.
C About three or four times a year, a company that I do some work for organises a day of meetings for those of us that work from home. They put us up in a hotel and it’s a good chance for colleagues who don’t meet that often to catch up with each other. The last time this happened, I arrived at the hotel quite late and went straight to bed. The next morning, I walked into the breakfast room and saw my old colleague Dan, a short man with a bald head, standing with his back to me. ‘Good morning, Dan,’ I said, patting him on the head in a friendly way. Unfortunately, the man who turned to face me wasn’t Dan at all, but a complete stranger. To make things worse, he was a rather formal man who didn’t see the funny side of the situation. ‘I’m sorry to say that you may have made an error,’ he said.
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