On Saturday night we went to a party thrown by a girl that works at Vero's school. She invited a bunch of people from her work and her husband invited a bunch of people from his school -- yes, he's a teacher too.
So here I am in a house full of teachers, meeting teachers that mate with other teachers (we befriended Ben and Val who, you would guess it, are both teachers).
At some point during the night I overheard a guy talking to another about the motorcycle he just bought. I didn't hear much, but the word "bike" grabs my attention like no other (perhaps second to "naked"). So when that guy ended up alone I went over and asked about it.
Turns out he bought a brand new CBR last week. So we had a long conversation on the topic of bikes.
After we finally introduced ourselves, I asked him (Chris) which of our two hosts he was teaching with.
Chris: "I'm not a teacher, my wife is. With Pierre."
Me: "So what do you do, then?"
Chris: "I'm a programmer."
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So he's a software developer who creates web-based apps in Java. The whole "really? me too!" bit got old very quickly. The more we talked about work the more we realized we do the exact same thing.
So we befriended a software developer and a special needs teacher that are into bikes.
This world is just too darn small.
