The Incalculability of Life

[Dixon]

When he found his seat on the plane, Sam recognized the person who was sitting in the seat next to his.
It was the woman he had met earlier at the French cafe.
She had spilled a whole pot of coffee over his trousers. And even worse she had simply said: “I´m so sorry.” Then she had added with a provocative look:
“Things like that just happen.” She had shrugged her shoulders and had vanished leaving him behind utterly perplexed.
After buying himself a new pair of jeans he had put his business trousers into his luggage, soaking wet as they were. Never had he been that angry before.

A black boy with big brown eyes and a chocolate-surrounded mouth was sitting next to her and talking excitedly. There was a blood-stained injury on his forehead.
She wiped the boy´s mouth under his protest. Then she turned to him smiling open-heartedly. In a soft, quiet voice she said:
“I am so sorry but I was terribly in a hurry. The kindergarden had called because Blake had fallen down the stairs.”

[TheBearJew]

Forgive my harsh response, but I didn't like the idea much. The writing was solid enough, but I feel like there's so much missing here and far too much random information. It may seem irrelevant, but I don't get why they were on a plane or why I needed the description about her childs' appearance when we don't know about the two key characters. More importantly, the coincidence seemed implausible and insignificant.

[giventofly]

Gonna have to agree with bearjew. You've got a couple awkward adverbs (tho, noticing ur from germany, english may not be your first lang.) Even with them, your prose is fairly smooth and easy to read, but from a story standpoint, I don't see much of one. There's a conflict, sort of, but I'm not sure why I should really care about it. This is not meant to be as harsh as it may sound, but this isn't really a story. It's a conflict with no build up, no resolution, and nothing to make the reader care about or be interested in what's happening or why. Simply put... it's a fragment. I'm a big fan of microfiction, but it's not really that either. Expand on it and it might be great, but as it is it doens't really stand up as is. Obviously you have a good command of language, so I'm sure you can do better than this. But this idea just doesnt really work for me. I do look forward to reading more from you tho.