Chance Meetings

[ZetaLuvBunny]

I was at Home Depot today with my mother, looking at plants, and suddenly behind me I heard someone say, "Have you found any white violets?" I thought... huh? I already have some, and why would someone ask about them?

I turned around to see a woman who works there and at the exact moment I had guessed why she mentioned white violets, she said, "I was a Zeta at UT". She must have seen the t-shirt I was wearing with Zeta Tau Alpha on the front while I was looking around at plants.

So she told me she had moved out of state for a while, and then back again, and that she hopes to get involved in an alumnae group sometime. She also said she teaches Psychology at the community college near where my family lives, and I thought that was so neat because I'm a Psychology major.

It just amazes me every time I meet a Zeta in the most random of places, when I least expect it. I always get this warm, fuzzy feeling inside and I feel as though I've known these people my entire life. I thought that was rather clever of her to say something about the white violets to get my attention.

Just a couple of weeks ago I met a lady who was one of the founders of our local chapter at Bath & Body Works, and she had guessed I'm a Zeta because of the Strawberry Shortcake t-shirt I was wearing.

Last summer I met a lady during a tour of some pioneer fort place, and she was in a ZTA chapter in another state. Then I found out that one of the mothers of a child at the daycare I worked at had been in another Tennessee ZTA chapter also.

Isn't it wild the places we meet? It just really makes my day, because we can have such instant bonds with people we otherwise may have never talked to or noticed!

Tell about some of your "chance meetings" with other Zetas!!!