Isn't it funny?

One of our newspaper features editors grubs into the archives every day and uses an item that was news fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred years ago. As a western/historical +writer, I love the older stories. Yesterday's feature announced the first American-born Chinese had registered to vote. Did he get respect, for his courage if nothing else? Not to speak of. In those days, the newspaper reporter felt free to make fun of the man, glossing over his citizenship by using pidgin English. Yeah, for shame. However, what struck me as serendipitous on my end was that in my fifth Boothenay Irons time-travel tale, I used this very ploy, and had gone over that scene in the manuscript the night before. No big deal. Just kind of odd.