In the lap of the gods

Two lovely (in the sense of personable) students have just got off the train. They didn't know each other, but got chatting, and made me feel tremendously old. The pair of them wibbled away about how:

1. they have friends
2. some of these friends go out with one another
3. some of them live in different places
4. some of them used to go out with the two girls themselves

and most astonishingly

5. some of them now live in different places and go out with other people notwithstanding they used to go out with our intrepid chatters.

plus various other tedious permutations.

None of them seem to have joined a cult, chewed off their own arm or discovered the last resting place of Lord Lucan.

Some of them are renting a flat with one another in West London.