crash calls it a "bounce"

[arguchik]

i just had a "bounce." i'm sitting in a coffee shop, working, and the #5 bus just pulled up to the curb right in front of the window. i glanced up and noticed an older east asian woman in a fishing hat looking right at me. she was sitting toward the back of the bus. our eyes met through two layers of window. we both smiled. the bus pulled away and we kept smiling until i couldn't see her anymore. i'm still smiling. perhaps she is too.

crash66 once described this phenomenon to me...and he gave it a name: "bounce."

i love it when little things like this happen. it keeps me from tumbling headlong into misanthropic cynicism.

wow, just had another kind of "bounce." when i walked into this coffee shop, i noticed the knitwear on a woman sitting a couple of tables away from me. just now she and her boyfriend got up to leave, and apparently she noticed my knitwear too because she came over to me and asked me about it. turns out she's a knitter, newly transplanted to seattle from san diego. we talked, introduced ourselves, and traded a couple of quick online knitting resources.