A few days ago I bumped into a senior high school teacher I had 20 years ago. I was sitting at a café and she and her husband asked if they could sit by my table as there were no other seats available.

I almost directly recognised her but didn´t dare to say to her that I did. I´m more or less sure she didn´t recognise me. We chatted briefly about the weather and the café until her husband came to the table with their coffee.

They rather soon left the table and I then regretted not telling her I recognised her as my former teacher.

Now I´m thinking of sending her a postcard, telling a little about our contact back in school and that I was glad to see her. I have looked her up online to find her home address as she´s now retired and perhaps that could be apprehended as a bit intrusive.

I saw her for only one semester or so and in one single course but I often stayed a bit after class, talking to her and I remember one time when she told me her father had just died.

I feel it would be fun to exchange mails with her but of course I won´t mention that on the postcard. I´m though planning to put my postal address on the card and perhaps write something like "write me some lines if you like" or similar. If she doesn´t remember me when reading the card, perhaps she´ll feel odd about it.

What do you think of this?