*Inspired by AngieBelle* What small world coincidences have happened to you?

[honeywolf7]

I ran into a cousin while I was working a few months ago whom I hadn't seen for about 9 years. I also found someone on this board (can't remember what her user name was and don't know if she's even still here) who lived like 2 houses away from my parents in Powhatan, Virginia.

 

[sue Z]

I saw Boo'sMom post on the transportation board a few months ago and saw that she had posted about working for a bus compnay in New Hampshire and Pm'd her and asked her about possibly knowing my dad at the bus company she worked for and she did!!

I also found another girl (NHMomx2) here also from New Hampshire who went to College with my best friend!!

now i call that a very small world!!!!!

Not one but 2 people here who know someone I know and both are from New Hampshire!!!
they are 2 different people!

 

[melk]

DH and I went to a Red Sox game on a Saturday night and I happened to notice the couple in front of us because the woman had on a very distinguishable jacket. The next day we were down in Plymouth, near the Mayflower (about 40 miles south of Boston) and I see that jacket...yup, the same couple that were at the game the night before!

 

[minniecarousel]

DH & I checked into a motel in Carmel, Calif. last May & the guy at the registration desk was someone we had lost touch with many years ago. We were friends with him & his wife when we were all newlyweds.

We ran into the people we bought our last house from in Disneyland one time (neither of us knew the other was going there that weekend!)

 

[LuvTigger]

We go to Vegas annually to visit BF's dad. One visit, we were at dad's friend's house, and the friend's son had some guests too. I kept looking at one of them who looked real familiar, and we realized that we used to hang out in a group (we had a common friend) when he was living in Hawaii.

A small world in another sense...I worked for a small gift shop years ago, and after working there a couple years, my boss's wife figured out that we were actually related!! Another thing about this shop...while I was in high school, I was infatuated with baseball players and would read the sports page religiously. I saw a picture of a guy I thought was cute (I actually cut it out and saved it). Fast forward to my interview with the shop owners...boss's wife tells me about this great guy that works for them at their other shop...it's the baseball player I was infatuated with from high school! I went over to the other shop and introduced myself and we bacame very good friends (nothing more though!).

 

[doxdogy]

My DH is always teasing me that he can't take me anywhere without me seeing someone I know from where I use to work. And I alwasy explain to him, that the company employed 3,000 plus employees. We were at a dog show in Tampa about 5 years ago and the waiter in the hotel restaurant use to work with me. But, the strangest one is that about 8 months ago we ran into friends of ours at Lowe's. He worked overseas so DH had lost touch with him. We weren't even planning on going to Lowe's that day, but decided to just go and do some wishing. As we are walking at we see him and his wife. We didn't even notice him at first. DH and he walked off together and I asked his wife if everything is okay. She explained to me that no, it wasn't. DH's friend had been diagnosed with cancer and didn't have much time left. I firmly believe to this day, that was a reason for us to head to Lowe's that day and it gave DH the chance to reconnect with his friend and have some time with him. The friend sadly passed away in May.

 

[cinlee3]

My brother and his wife became good friends with a family in their son's cubscout troup. They had been friends for several months and one night were talking about famous people they were related to. My brother said his family was related to Grant. The woman's maiden name was Grant. My brother asked where she was from - she said Whitney. He said my mom has a cousin with a radio station in Whitney. - It was her mom. They are our second cousins. It was so weird. She has all kinds of family pictures with my mom and grandma in that we had never seen.

 

[SeaShelley]

Several years ago, my Dad was working on assignment in Hawaii. He and another man from the AF base went to play golf and hooked up with another twosome. After swapping "where are you from" stories it turned out the one of the men was from also from Maine and had worked for my grandfather (Dad's dad) at the local paper. He told my Dad how weird it was to see him because before they met he had seen my Dad in the club house and thought to himself how much he looked like Mr. Story from the paper.

This really meant a lot to my Dad. Grampy had been gone for about 5 years at that time, and it was nice to hear how much this "stranger" thought of him.