The PE Connection

It seems that coming from Port Elizabeth is actually paying off. I'm no longer surprised to bump into some one who is part of, what I like to call "the PE massive". We are everywhere...everywhere except in PE of course. If you ever visit PE, you'll notice there is a substatial lack of 20 to 30 year olds.

Port Elizabethans seem to have infiltrated every facet of society whether it's in business or in a social context. Yesterday, while in the Llandudno car park, we bumped into a professional surfer, who happened to go to my Junior school and later while trying to find something to eat in Hout Bay, I bumped into another. I couldn't even get away when I used to walk around randomly in Sandton City in Johannesburg, someone was bound to shout my name to try get my attention and again; low and behold it would be some one else from PE.

The freakiest incident came earlier at work today, I needed to investigate a bulk SMS solution for our project so I stumbled upon SMS Portal, one of the biggest bulk SMS providers in the country.

I signed up for a test account to see if my project could use their product and within minutes I received a phone call from them - someone I knew was on the other line. It turns out that two of the guys who started the company went to University with me, they recognized my name on sign up and decided to call me.

PE has made this world smaller for me, and for the first time, I've started to appreciate my origins.