6 Degrees Seperation - At Walmart it is just a cart away!

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Who needs to go around the world just to find someone you are "connected" to strickly by just something that someone else in the world did on a really LARGE margin of options.... At Walmart the other day, I was shopping, got some things and went to get in line. I ahd gotten some Betty Crocker Fudge Brownie box mis for $1. I don't care much for them but my son and husband does and I ahve been teaching my 2 yo GD how to cook and this simple thing is the perfect thing - makes all three happy! I only got 2 boxes and thought I'd better get at least 2 more - that's a good buy. (saw them at the grocery today for $2.49!) That isle was just right behind me from the check out line so I left my cart and ran back, grabbed 4 more boxes and went back to the line and put them in my cart... yeah, it was my cart - had a turqoise t-shirt style pajama in the front seat area, had gator ade in the back and I alwasy buy that when on sale for my son, and the Snack Pack puddings, I always get those and there were the DVD's I chose for christmas gift for my son - John Wayne and the colored marshmallows for my GD...but oh, what was that at the end? Lookslike a notebook/daytimer kind of thing... I know I looked at school supplies, but I don't remember that I picked one up... Then I picked up the SOap Opera DIgest from the rack and started flipping through it and noticed the lady in front of me was taking things out of my cart! I stopped and looked and she looked at me and athen I looked down and saw some things that I know I didn't put there! Closer look - it wasn't my cart! It was hers, mine was in the next line over! I grabbed the boxes out and apologized and went to my cart. WHy'd I think it was mine? She had bought many of the same items I did! THat same turquoise night shirt - laying in the seat area, the Snack pack pudding, the gator ade, the brownie mix - except for that notebook (and closer look a few other why I had and she looked at me like a calf looking at a new fence, and I said, "Oh, there's mine" and pulled the cart nad showed her our identical purchases! She burst out laughing - really loud! It was the funniest thing! We were both just laughing. SHe says "Oh I can't wait to tell my daughter this! She'll die laughing!" We even had the cashier laughing and commenting - "maybe you guys are 6 degrees seperated!". It was the funnist thing tho. SOunds rather silly now, but at the time, boy, to think a total stranger (and I don't get to Walmart to often - not to close to me) and I have the exact same likes! I didn't ask her what DVD's she had chosen, (They were on a huge rack for $5 - great stocking stuffers!) but she had some too! What are the chances of finding your 6 degree person in walmart in your home town! I think the whole 6 degree thing is silly anyway, but for it to happen so close to home - just a very odd thing to experience. Have you ever had something like this happen to you? I guess it wouldn't have been quite so revelant had she not had that same turquoise night shirt .. it was just so odd!