Waterloo Station, London, by Terry Freedman via Flickr

London is a sprawling place and, depending on how you define its boundaries, is home to up to around 18 million people.

So what are the chances of this happening?

Yesterday I wrote an article called Is There a Place for the Barefoot Researcher?. This was in response to an article by Joe Nutt, called The value of real scholarship.

Bear in mind that I haven't seen Joe for months. But today, as I was going down the escalator from the mainline station at Waterloo to the Underground, I passed Joe going in the opposite direction, ie he was on the 'up' escalator.

"Hi, Terry!", he said.

"Hi, Joe", I replied. "I wrote a diatribe about an article of yours last night."

"Oh yes?"

"Yes! Look on the bloggers' circle."

And that was it! I wonder what the probability is of a chance meeting like that less than 24 hours after writing a blog referring to the person?

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