There's nothing quite so unsettling as having your world shrink in unexpected places and at unexpected times.
I was minding my business this morning, playing catch-up with my email at the office when I glanced up and noticed that the new recruits were walking by on a quick tour of the office before they start training next week. Normally, this is no big deal. Today, I did a double-take. One of the new recruits is a guy I knew in high school. He was two years older than me, but we knew each other because we were both in marching band. In fact, he and his (mostly) identical twin brother would give me rides to and from band practice since they lived about 5 minutes away from me.
He recognized me too (from the look on his face, I wasn't the only one having a WTF moment), so he stopped by after the tour to catch up a little. It was cool. Weird, but cool. It turns out that he'll be working from this location, too (some of our recruits end up working out of one of our district offices). I'm one of our office's compliance officers, so it's going to be interesting seeing if I can handle an authoritative role over someone who was in the leadership position when I last saw him 15 or so years ago.
But the story's not over yet...
I stopped by our training department to share the information with them. While I was talking about how I knew this guy, one of the ladies frowned a little and asked what high school I attended. When I told her where I went and when I graduated, she asked me if I knew her cousins. Turns out I went to elementary, middle, and high school with one of her cousins, and high school with the other...and he graduated the same year as our new recruit.
My mind kind of esploded today.