The Apartment

This story is WEIRD and proves the point that "it's a small world after all". Before I get into the story I need to provide some background information.

Background: While in University I had a housemate by the name of Graham, Graham has been living and travelling in Australia for almost 2 years. In recent weeks Graham and I have been in-touch and it turns out he is living in Brisbane. 

Story: Sally arrived in Australia on July 13th and whilst in the air, Graham was kind enough to provide me his phone number and offer to help Sal get oriented with her new surroundings. In one of our emails Graham had mentioned that on Saturday his housemates were having a house party and that I needed to "drink a red bull and attend". In the very same email, Graham mentioned that 2 rooms were available for rent in his house. When I talked to Sal on Skype, which is the most amazing online communication tool, I gave her his number, told her about the prospect of an apartment and briefly mentioned the party. 

A few days ago Sal called saying she had an interesting story. While in orientation, she met a girl who happened to know of an apartment for rent. Later in the day, while walking to meet the girl, Sal ran into another girl from her program who was also looking for a place to stay. Being the social-butterfly that Sal is, she invited the girl to come with her. The apartment that they viewed just so happened to have 2 rooms for rent.

In passing conversation, the person showing the apartment mentioned that they were having a house party on Saturday. I guess this perked Sal's interest and she inquired about the people who lived in the rooms. The person showing the place mentioned that a guy by the name of Graham had lived in one of the rooms and he was recently in-between places. Sal, even more intrigued asked if they knew his last name. The person had no idea, but mentioned that he was from a city north of Toronto in Canada. The information provided up until this point was odd but Sal needed irrefutable evidence and asked the person if they had any pictures of Graham. It must have seemed odd to the person showing the place that his girl was so interested in the guy who had lived in the apartment, they obliged and showed her some pictures on the fridge. The housemate in the pictures was none other than my old housemate Graham. 

Ending: Sal has booked the apartment that Graham previously occupied. Who needs to worry about getting home safe after the house party? Not us...Well there is a set of stairs and Sal has had some problems with Canadian staircases, hopefully international staircases will be a lot kinder to her. 

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