St. Small

Funny story, on Saturday I went out for my buddy Ben’s birthday. It was interesting, he was the only I really knew—a few acquaintances too—so I got to meet a bunch of new people. I went home with two guys who I have met through Anglo-American who live right down the street from me. We went a way I had never gone before and we passed a nightclub near our apartments that I had heard of but never seen. I mentioned I’d never been and they said it was a cool place and I should see it, so we stopped in. On the way in the door I heard American (I hear English fairly often but it’s not often Americans speaking so I’m differentiating). There was a group standing around the door so I decided to say hello.

It turned out to be a bunch of girls from Dartmouth who just started their study abroad trip. Upon hearing I was from Minnesota, one asked me if I knew Danny. I was a bit taken aback, 5 million people in Minnesota what are the odd we know the same person? I told her I needed a bit more info. She said she thought his last name started with a G or a J. So I pulled out the only Danny I could think of who fit that criteria and tentatively said, “Danny Jardine? Tall, curly hair?” She—Bianca—exclaimed, “that’s him!” WOW! That is ridicules! The only Minnesotan she knows is from St. Paul and was a couple years ahead of me at good old Cretin-Derham Hall. I was shocked that we knew the same person in all of Minnesota.

Then it almost got weirder. So I met Bianca randomly by chance walking home from a night out in Prague in the Czech Republic, one in a million odds that we’d have met. She met Danny the summer before when she was in Europe on another trip. As she told me she had been in Paris and did not like it so she went to the airport and asked for the first ticket anywhere. A few hours later she ended up in Madrid and somehow met Danny. She then spent a week backpacking with him.

Probably more than one in a million odds that she’d met him, that’s a pretty tenuous string of events for Bianca to met Danny. Then more long odds for her to decide to study abroad in Prague this semester, same for me (I almost went to London). So basically I’d say 1 in 500 million (to pull a number out of thin air) odds that this random connection back to Danny Jardine from CDH would ever amount to anything. Except it is St. Small and it is the cult that is CDH, so the odds that this connection would come to fruition are probably pretty good.