Sunday, May 18, 2008
I Love a good coincidence
Skokie Illinois. A village in Cook County and a suburb of Chicago. Or so my brief internet search tells me.
A week ago I had never heard of Skokie. Why would I have? It’s a long way from Brisbane, Australia. And then coincidence came visiting.
I was supervising a science class in one of the school labs and being rather bored started studying the table of elements hanging on the wall. I was reminiscing about chemistry classes long since forgotten when for some reason my eye was drawn the fine print on the bottom of the chart. It was made in Skokie Illinois. I didn’t think much of it other than the fact it is an unusual name and it conjures images of small town America for some reason.
Several days later finds me watching one of those generic cop shows, possibly one with “Law and Order” in the title but I can’t be sure. The TV was just on providing a little distraction after a busy day. Coincidence time. The key protagonist was from Skokie, Illinois.
Then last night I was reading “The Quiet Game” by Greg Iles and Skokie was mentioned in what I assume is a reference to the march planned by the National Socialist Party of America in the late 1970’s.
To top things off maybe someone from Skokie will read this and drop me a line in the comments. I won’t hold my breath though.
“You can’t coach that”
