Perhaps we have very different schedules, therefore very different times available to visit the cafe? Who knows.

[It is an odd coincidence though.]

"Became acquainted" might be the better term. I really don't know him well. But he was the model for a life-drawing class I attended a little while back. [He looks thoughtful for a moment, before nodding to himself.] He was an interesting artistic subject - more so than others who we had to draw.

[Oh.]

Ah, and one of my messages via Retrospec misfired to him this afternoon actually. How strange.