My partner’s daughter is in NYC for school. She was hostessing in the West Village one night and took a last-minute call for reservations. Recognizing the area code as that of our home state, daughter mentioned it to the caller. Caller asks daughter’s name. Says, “do you know so-and-so with the same last name?” Daughter is like, “Yeah, those are my parents.” Random caller turned out to be a long-time friend of the hostess’s mother visiting NYC for the weekend and that was the third restaurant she had tried that night.

Crazy thing is, I was working in NYC at the time ,and my partner had come down to visit for the weekend. So she got to meet up with her friend for brunch the next day. They hadn’t seen each other at home in years.