Cosmic Twins?

Go ahead and roll your eyes at the title. Yes, I realize that it sounds awful new-agey and dumb, but I'm thoroughly convinced that some people are just linked in ways that we don't quite understand.

We have a friend, Mary. Way back when, we all worked together at Best Buy and we became quite close. But there's something odd about our relationship. You see, anytime something strange happens to us, a similar event is almost undoubtedly going to occur in hers. Sometimes they're just odd coincidences- you know, the ordinary quirky things like picking out the exact same birthday card for the same person. But sometimes they're just too weird to explain.

For instance, think back to April when hubby spent a week in the hospital due to a nasty infection in his foot. Yep-- very same week Mary was in the very same hospital having surgery on the very same leg. I wish I'd known, I could have maybe gone for a visit, or arranged little hospital playdates between the patients. (Do they allow such things?)

Ok, if that's not weird enough for you, how about this one:

Two nights ago hubby was robbed outside his job at about 6 pm. This morning, about 6 am, Mary and her coworkers were held up at gunpoint on her way into work. The bastard forced them to open and empty the safe and then, thankfully, took off without injuring anyone. In another stroke of luck. The genius took a wrong turn, was caught by the police, and the money was returned.

I don't mean to make light of the situation, and I'm not here to comment on how shitty it is that this area's crime rate is rivaling some of the big cities. I'm just marveling over the fact that our lives seem to be entwined in a scarily odd sort of way.

Maybe we need to just make a habit of calling each other at the end of every day to warn each other about impending doom.