Life's little coincidences

suejb2

Thought of another one,went to a caravan park in the Lakes got friendly with another family they also live in Manchester.We returned home at the end of the week,children and I decided to go shopping the next day (not Manchester) just coming out of a shop and who should walk past at that precise time but the mum and daughter of the family we met in the Lakes

Savvy_Sue

sali_mali wrote: »

I nearly fell off my elephant!

Of all the punchlines so far, that one is the best! :rotfl:

My bestest is that soon after graduating, and living near home, I went to a play at the Friends Meeting House in Euston Road. It was 'in the round', and I was sitting on one of the sides.

At the end of the play, I thought I recognised someone sitting the opposite side: he'd been in the boys' sixth form when I was in the girls'; we knew each other very slightly through Scouts, Guides, church etc. But he had always been socially inept, so I wasn't about to make a big effort to renew our acquaintance.

However, on his way out he walked around the stage and right in front of me, so I said "Hi there" - not even sure if it was him or not. It was, we chatted briefly about what he was doing there, and he gave me his address as he wanted the address of my previous vicar's son (no Facebook in THOSE days!)

Long story short, we wrote to each other, and after a fairly 'interesting' visit to Finland he met up with me on his return home. I don't remember how many years ago that was, but we've been married over 30 years ...

Savvy_Sue

And my sister came home from choir practice when she was 10 or so, very excited because there was a boy who shared her birthday. Something else she said made Mum ask a couple more questions, and she realised this lad's mum had been in the next bed to her in hospital.

Savvy_Sue

I think the best 'holiday meet' was when we were in a UK B&B which also did evening meals. It wasn't that surprising to find others who'd lived or still lived not so far from us, because it's an obvious holiday area for us.

What was surprising was to find that one of the chaps used to ring his wife (then girlfriend) from the phone box which was opposite our house when we moved in. He claimed to still know the number, which I couldn't test as the phone box has now gone.

DH is always meeting people in unexpected places. But then, one of my friends says he is ubiquitous.

Ladyhawk

I went to university in Canada (I am not from there) and on Spring Break I went to New York for a week and stayed with my middle brother's very good friend from back home who had been seconded there. Turned out his housemate also had a friend staying that week who happened to know my oldest brother from university.

My mum used to always say that she could never walk through Heathrow without bumping into someone she knew. She lives on the other side of the world...

Last weekend I went on a Meetup Group walk and got to chatting to a lady who i happened to tell that I used to live in XYZ town. She said "oh, so did I but I left a while go but when I lived there the first flat I bought was on ABC Road". The first flat I bought was on ABC road... hers was number 23 and mine was 27!

UKDebs

We were in a pub while on holiday in Cornwall and overheard the barman describing a particular building in our home town to the couple he was chatting to. We joined in and it turned out that the couple lived in another town 20 miles of ours and the barman wasn't really a barman but was a policeman in our home town as was just in Cornwall for the week looking after the pub for his parents.

Another time we were in Brighton for the day (70 miles or so from where we live) and bumped into someone my husband knew from Merseyside. The guy still lived there and was a coach driver - that day he'd driven his coach to Brighton for the first time.

cat04

tiger_eyes wrote: »

I used to work as a mystery shopper calling insurance companies to get quotes. Every day I was given a profile of an imaginary person, complete with fictitious name, but real address. I went through the same script with every call until one day ...

Me: I live at Address in City I've Never Been To.
Person: Oh, I grew up on that street! I haven't been there in years. What's it like now?
:eek:
Me: ... There's a lot more traffic these days.

She never realised.

There was me enjoying the thread but not thinking I could add anything until I read your post.

When I was with my ex-husband I did quite a bit of mystery shopping including a one off job visiting a corner shop in a part of town I didn't normally visit. It was a 'open' visit and I remembered the female staff member who spoke to me, a lovely lady called Pearl (remembered the name as I didn't know anyone else called that and I liked it).

Fast forward 4 years and I'd split with my ex and was with my now OH (who I met randomly on facebook believe it or not) and he was taking me to visit his grandparents for the first time. Nanna's name is Pearl and works at the shop round the corner from her house. Yep, one and the same, I was too shy to tell her straight away but she's as lovely now as she was then and still working in what we now call 'Nanna's Shop'!

stormbreaker

My nephew called his Mum from his new mobile, the call showed as his Grand Dad, who died several years previous! We couldn't recall what had happened to Dads mobile or number, but the number it is now my nephews...spooky!:eek:

I have an acquaintance. We share the same birthday although a few years apart. We were born in the same hospital and brought up in the same small town. She shares my sisters first name and her surname is my BILs first name.Our husbands have the same first name. My sister and her both stayed in the same street at the same time. Both have moved to the same small town. We both have sons born in 1994. We were married in the same year, a month apart but both on the 2nd of the month. (I am sure there was more but have forgotten!:o)

stejobeth

For 4 years on the run we saw the same family staying in our hotel whilst on holiday. The weird thing was that each holiday was in a different country, different times of the year and booked through different tour operators each time :eek:.

The 4th time we actually spoke about it being a small world and that must have broken the spell because we've not seen them since

gallygirl

2 from me:

Years ago I went with then hubby and kids to Florida. Few weeks later we went to Hunstanton for the 1st time, it's 100 miles away. A woman approached us, she had sat behind us on the plane coming home (and had recognised us as our kids had thrown up all the way home ).

Few years ago Mr GG and I went to Lanzarote. Got chatting to a couple who came from my home town. Turned out he was one of my cousins best mates and we'd all been at his wedding the year before.