hungarians are everywhere

Gearing up for a show tonight at BCHQ (www.bullcityhq.org), I was sitting talking to a group of people who live in Raleigh when a man sat down and started eating hotdogs with piles of onions on top. We start talking, he tells me his name is Zsolt, and I ask, "Where are you from?," hoping Poland because I know about coincidences all too well.

"Hungary," he replied. Yep, the guy used to own a hostel in Hungary - he's definitely Hungarian. Lord, could you be any clearer?

This reminds me of the time I was stood up for my last tutoring appointment with this GRE student a few months ago at Caribou Coffee in Raleigh. A man named Iszti sits down and wants me to help him with song lyrics. After some conversation and my own private concert, I ask him where he's from: Hungary. He later came to open mic with his girlfriend, but we neglected to exchange numbers, so I may never see him again, unless he shows up randomly at open mic. 

Late for a post, but just can't help but realize that these are NOT coincidences!

And, on a completely nonrelated note - we've been experiencing spam in the Wake County School System email. You would think after decades of consistent email contact for professional purposes, people would be more considerate. Everyone in Wake County had about 600 emails over the last few days. Here's a sampling:

The original email was sent to every staff member at every school in Wake Co. When you reply and request that your name be taken off the list, that email is also sent to everyone in Wake Co. If everyone will simply delete all of these emails that they are receiving, this problem will take care of itself.

In other words, STOP REPLYING TO THESE EMAILS!!!!!!

(Just to note that this person also replied to EVERYONE. Shift. Click. Delete. Repeat.)

Szia!