It's a World of Laughter, a World of Tears

A conversation overheard by me today (probably because I was involved in the conversation)

Curtis: I'm from a small town in New Jersey called Wantage, in a county called Sussex.
Colleague: New Jersey's 5th district?
Curtis: . . . (stunned silence)
Colleague: I worked on a fundraiser for a guy named Aronsohn who ran for Congress there.

I'd heard politics is a small world and that at some point I'd have have stories like this. But I've only been here 4 days and already I meet a co-worker who's been through Sussex. Part of me is bothered by the fact that politics is so predictable (meaning, those who I talked to told me this would happen). But another part of me thinks this is pretty cool.