is this normal?

1) A guy from a roofer company left an advertisement on Dad's door yesterday. (Perhaps the giant blue FEMA tarp tipped him off that Dad might be interested.) Dad called him, and the guy came to the house today to give an estimate. The company is based in Arlington but has recently localized in southeast Texas for obvious reasons. As they chatted, Dad mentioned that they had evacuated to my sister's place in Arlington. Turns out, the guy used to live on the same street with an address just one number off from hers.

2) As I helped a coworker with a project this week, we started talking about our families and discovered that she went to high school with my parents. Her husband played football with my dad. Her husband also had my grandmother for a biology teacher. (And my grandmother remembers him clearly, as she does all of her former students.)

3) On my flight from Houston to Nashville after Thanksgiving, a guy was asked to change seats so that a family could use his row. He moved, sat on my row and struck up a conversation, during which I learned: he is from Hendersonville (where I live now), the building where he used to attend church is now the building where my church meets, he is best friends with my current preacher's son at college, and his college roommate has been on a mission trip to New Zealand.

4) My Boston-friend Karen was named after my Abilene-friend Caron.

5) When I moved here, I met a girl who went to Harding. She remembers Cole and Mark. Also, her best college friend accompanied my sister to Kenya when they (attending different colleges and never having met before) spent nine months teaching school to the children of the missionaries.

6) My current supervisor at work went to ACU when Ed was there.

it's a small world. and frankly, sort of creepy.