It's Anything But Sheer Destiny: Story Of Two Old Mates

By Staff

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 18:16

Do you believe in faith? Well, the story you are about to read is anything but sheer faith, if one believes in it. In a case of , two men came face to face with each other at a street party and found they were boyhood best friends.

Solicitor Jonathan Webb and financial expert Simon McGregor, who had not seen each other for 27 years, had been living next door to each-other in Wandsworth, south London.

The 47-year-olds attended one of the Big Lunch series of street parties around the country, reports The Daily Express.

The two even crossed each other's paths in the street but had no idea of the connection until they began talking.

Webb said: "I am still reeling from the shock, a really pleasant shock." Well, we don't doubt that either.