A small world on a bad day

Yes, it is a small world after all. Unfortunately, I got it on a bummer of a day. Besides having way too many things to do at work, the evil traffic issues rose up to bite me today. Ok, I cannot really blame the traffic -- but I can blame the jerk in the giant van who decided to swerve around the car in front of him at the last second -- the car that I was not aware was there until that moment. Unfortunately I wasn't able to brake in time and rear-ended the fellow. On the plus side, there was no real damage to either car and neither of us was injured. Shook me up quite a bit, though.

Where does the "small world" part fit in? Turns out the gentleman I hit is the fiancee of a woman I've met through the yarn shop. He was very nice and seemed to take the incident philosophically - hopefully that will be the end of it. I felt so bad for it, though, and I still want to call and apologize all over. Oy. At least my hands have stopped shaking.