Small World

The World, it really isn't that small and yet so many of us realize certain connections and associations that lead us to exclaim "it's a small world".  For instance, meeting the sweet old lady last week from Oakland who happened to be in a sewing class with Grandma Vi and was wearing a ring crafted by Great Grandpa Donovan J. Allphin.  She happened to come into our shop and we happened to get into a discussion about where she was from and wow, it's a small world.  Today I was talking to my customer Fred who schooled me on the art of drinking a Diet Coke and other Diet Coke trivia. the last time he was in.  Today we got on the topic of dinner and I mentioned our pork being cooked Hawaiian style.  Turns out he lived in Hawaii the same time we did.  A few minutes before our conversation he found out that we were Fontano's and he talked about looking at buying the folks house in New Harmony several years ago but instead buying a house down the road.  What are the chances he lived in Hawaii when we did and that he and his wife moved down the road from the folks in New Harmony?  Well, small world.  In our discussion about Hawaii we talked about food as food was what lead us to this discovery.  Anyhow, that discussion included chili from a certain establishment, Zippy's.  Well, he loves the stuff and said his wife had it shipped to them a few times a year.  I went and got some of our chili which is a very similar recipe with a few Fontano tweaks.  He absolutely loved it and bought a bowl to take home to his wife.  You know what they say, small world.  It is a neat thing to find connections with people, to discover things about people that you otherwise wouldn't know.  It is a pretty amazing planet we live on and though it isn't that small there are times when it really is a small world.