Just ran into the same guy for the hundredth time in a coffee shop.

"This must mean something!" he said.

"It means we drink a lot of coffee and both live in West LA," I replied.

"Well, if you want to simplify it," he answered.

No, I'm not interested. I know in the movies and television when people keep running into each other it means that they're supposed to have sex, but in, well, in my life, it means that I need to get out of my hood more often.

It's kind of embarrassing, really. Am I that predictable? Why can't I run into people I know in a Parisian coffee shop? On a ski lift in the Alps? At a market in Guatemala?

Just for today, I need to get out of town.