Serendipity

A relative of mine runs a bed & breakfast. Its on a main bus route north/south.

Door knock at ‘bus time’ one evening and a young couple are standing there looking for b&b.

“Do you have any rooms?” asks the young woman.

“I only have a double left is that ok?” says my relative.

The young couple look at each other, he smiles broadly and shrugs. She turns to my relative and smiles, then looks back at him and shrugs too. Then says “That will be ok”.

“How long for?” says my relative.

“Oh just one night!” says the young woman.

In they go.

Next morning they do not appear for breakfast. At lunchtime they emerge. “May we stay another night?” asks the young woman.

“Certainly”.

They do not appear for breakfast the next morning, and again appear at lunchtime and request another night’s stay.

The same happens the following day.

On the fourth morning they appear for breakfast, and the young man asks “What time is the bus to Glasgow passing?” My relative tells him. The young woman then asks “When is the Inverness bus going through?” and my relative lets her know, then asks “Can you not decide whether to go north or south?”

The couple look at each other and smile, then look at my relative and the young woman says “I’m going north”

And he says “I’m going south”.

Then, seeing my relative’s face fall as she assumes they’ve had a tiff, they giggle and the young woman says “We only met on your doorstep, Jed’s heading south, but I’m carrying on north, but it’s been a lovely stay with you, thank you!”