A Funny Thing Happened On My Way Out of Town

What a nice surprise and relief
from the cold. A hug from Miss
India!

This blog post is not bike related but I thought the story was humorous. Maybe the reader will chuckle too.

The young lady with the Hollywood smile is Ranjitha, my friend and former perio department colleague at Georgia. The funny part of this chance January meeting on Forest Edge Drive, Coralville, Iowa, is that, back in August, I thought I saw her look-alike on the putting green at Brown Deer Golf Course.  Because I knew that her husband Raj had a brother living in Coralville, I went up to the couple and sheepishly asked, “Any chance you know of a Raj and Ranjitha?” They gave me the blankest stare known to man and then an emphatic, “no”. When I emailed Jitha this story, she replied and said, “Glenn, there are only about four billion people from India! LOL.”

Ok, this sets the stage for the most serendipitous happenstance sightings I have ever had. It was a very cold Sunday afternoon in late January, snow falling with blizzard like blasts---muito vento. I was heading out of town to do some grandpa sitting for the grandiose grand kids, Ian and Alex. As I was driving up our street, I saw a couple, all bundled up, walking down our street. I thought, Goodness, those folks are tougher than me, taking a stroll on such a cold day! The minute I drove by them I noticed they looked familiar. Good gravy, that looks like that Ranjitha Clone, I talked to back in August!!!”  The lady waved and I waved back. As I shot on by, I thought, “Damn that looks like the real Ranjitha”.  As I waited for a car so I could turn out of the neighborhood, my cell phone rang. It WAS Raj and Ranjitha! “Ranjitha are you here in Coralville?” There was a big laughing YES as I did a U-turn. I felt badly I needed to get going to Des Moines ahead of serious snow and darkness and Connie was too sick with a norvovirus to have visitors. So we had a very short visit in a neighbor’s driveway, exchanging hugs and laughs.


What a nice surprise, a Krishna Scarf for
Connie and a Jones Creek golf shirt for
me --- now Old Man winter go away!

A nice outcome of the by chance meeting of Raj and Ranjitha on Forest Edge Drive, was receiving a limited edition handmade Krishna  Scarf and a golf shirt. Thank you Raj and Ranjitha!