This just happened

A conversation with my coworker here at The Big Library:

"Happy New Year!"

"Same to you.  How was your holiday?"

"Nice.  I very much enjoyed doing nothing this year."

"You didn't travel?"

"Nope, first time in years.  You?"

"Yes.  I went home to New Jersey."

"I didn't know you were from Jersey!  What part are you from?"

"South Jersey."

"Me, too.  Where in South Jersey?"

"Oh, right across the river from Philadelphia."

(Pause)  "Me, too."

(Additional pause)  "Really!.  What town?"

I say my hometown.  She laughs.

"I'm from X," she says, naming the town just down the road from mine.  "Did you go to Y high school?"

(Astonished)  "Yes!  You did too?"

"Yup."

"Did you have Mrs. Z for Latin?"

"Yes!  You too?"

(Nods)

"Okay, this is just bizarre."

"It sure is.  How did we never figure this out until right now?"

"No idea."

"Well, at least now we can gossip!"

"Yep."