Biking / Scribd Audiobook Coincidence Number 3

So this morning . . . a Sunday morning, in case you didn't notice, which could add to the oddness of this coincidence . . . I set off for a bike ride at 9:33.  I have been listening to (and enjoying) Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things on my most recent bike outings (or boutings  as we Bikers say).  Been meaning to get back to Faber ever since I finished The Crimson Petal and the White.  And did get a few nibbles out of a short story collection, Some Rain Must Fall: And Other Stories--and was enjoying it--but got caught up in the whole Béla Tarr / László Krasznahorkai thing.  (Which I'm not yet finished with.  I have seen all of Tarr's films and have almost finished reading my third Krasznahorkai book (plus that little pamphlety thing, "The Bill"), but I've still got one more novel to read (been on request at LFPL for a long time), one more pamphlety thing to read, and one more book coming out January 15, 2016.  Which, had we not gotten divorced, have been the 33rd wedding anniversary for me and Jo Ann.  Wow.  But enough about me.)

So there's this company in the novel--The Book of Strange New Things, if you've lost track midst all of these twists and turns--which was called USAC . . . or so I imagined.  Because the narrator has a British accent.   And I was biking down Willow Springs Drive, and as I rounded a corner I saw a truck parked (and empty) on the side of the road.  As I passed it, I saw what was written on the door:

USIC

Which is pretty odd, right?  And why was that truck (from USIC's website:  "USIC is North America's leading underground utility damage prevention firm.") out on a Sunday morning at 10 am-ish?  (It was about 3/4ths of the way through my bouting, by the way.)  When I got home I went to Amazon's Look Inside for The Book of Strange New Things, and look what I found:

     "The Slavic-looking young man shook his prognathous face slowly to and fro.
     "Too late, bro."
     "Too late?"
     "Twenty-four-hourly stock appraisal, bro. Began an hour ago."
     "I was told by the USIC people that food is provided whenever we need it."
     "Correct, bro. You just gotta make sure you don't need it at the wrong time."



So what do you think about them apples?