It's a Friday night

And I decide to go to

A Sabbath dinner at the JCC

I'm thinking that this

Is a singles event

But I'm not sure

We're standing around

Before dinner begins

And I'm not talking to anyone

A young woman named Ilene says hello

And we start talking

We're joined after a while

By a fellow named Bill

Who she'd been talking to earlier

At one point Ilene's telling me

Something about her sister

And Bill adds something about her

I ask him if he knows the sister

Or if he'd found this out tonight

By talking with Ilene

He surprises me by saying that

He and Ilene are married

A while later Ilene

Has to go do something

And I mention to Bill,

Who'd said he works in insurance,

That I used to work in

The data processing division

Of an insurance company

Back in New Jersey in the 70's

He asks which company

And after I tell him Continental

He says that his sister-in-law

And her husband used to, too,

At a place called Insco

That's where I started in computers

And worked for over seven years!

I hadn't heard the name "Insco" in many years

I ask Bill who his inlaws are,

Thinking I might recognize their names

When he says Dave and Leni Boskey

I'm astonished --

We had been good friends

When Ilene returns

We tell her the news

And she's similarly shocked

She has since contacted the Boskeys

And related the story to them

Maybe we'll get back in touch

* * *

A week and a half later

The phone rings

And it's Maureen,

My girlfriend of 2-1/2 years

While I was at Insco

We haven't spoken in eight years

And I had never expected to again

I had tried tracking her down

Three summers ago when

I had been in New Jersey

But could not succeed

What a nice surprise

To hear from her now

We talk at length

And she tells me about her two kids

Since she had known the Boskeys, too,

I tell her what had happened

She is equally boggled

By the strange turn of events

It seems Insco's in the air

Almost fifteen years

After I left there

* * *

The Boskey's have three kids

And the oldest is named Katy

Maureen's oldest is Kate