Lol we sometimes meet people in the weirdest of circumstances and somehow form a bond with them.
I remember snubbing an offer of a handshake from a classmate in my second semester in the university only for him to be one of my closest friends. Infact he got me my first official job after graduation.
That's true. And then the turn out to be such huge part of our lives. I hope you're still friends with him though. He sounds like a wonderful person.