Oh no she better don't!

This story is just too good so I must blog and share. Two weeks ago over the San Francisco gay pride weekend I was out dancing on Saturday night with a bunch of my friends. I met this handsome guy, we danced and chatted a bit, when he left I gave him my card and told him I would buy him dinner. As crazy pride weekend raged on I pretty much forgot about giving anyone my information and didn’t really think about this guy again. Wednesday rolls around and while working I get an email from a stranger saying it was good to meet me and that if the invite for dinner is still open he would take me up on my offer. I had to jog my memory for a few minutes and finally I remembered who it was.

I was still interested in following through with my invitation so we set a date for a Tuesday night dinner at a cool restaurant in the Mission on Valencia. In our emails leading up to the dinner I learned he spent some time growing up in Boise Idaho just like me. He is one year older than me so I was thinking that day at work it was possible that he and I were in the same elementary school. So over dinner I asked him what years he was in Boise. They were similar years as myself, so I asked what elementary school he attended. Sure enough, it was the same school and he was one year ahead of me (If I had not failed second grade we would have been in the same class. Repeating second grade is a story for another day). I then asked him if he lived in the areas surrounding the school. Turns out he lived on my same street about ten houses up on the same golf course. We even had the same best lesbian girlfriend… they had become friends after I moved off to California.

My faithful readers… yet another example of how small our world really is and why we should be nice to absolutely everyone we meet. You never know when someone you hardly know from your past will show up in another place and another time, smiling from the other side of the dinner table or next to you on the dance floor. We are all connected by this amazing universe in ways we will never know or understand. Be good to one another.