At the Home Depot Sunday, picking up stuff for the garden, we passed by two people, one of which I instantly recognized as an acquaintance from MIT – another MechE, who I took almost all my classes with. I remembered she was from the area, but what were the chances of running into her at HD? Well, I figured I’d ask, and indeed, it was her. She introduced her husband, and we chatted for a bit. After a few minutes, I realized that I knew her husband from somewhere, and so I asked him if he was also from MIT. He wasn’t – apparently, he went to Stanford. But then it dawned on me that I used to commute with this guy to the Bay Area Wind Symphony when we were both in 8th grade.

So… yeah. It’s probably not so strange, since they were both from the same area, and may have in fact gone to high school together, but it was really weird nonetheless to find two people from totally different areas of my life at the Home Depot, married to each other.