It's a small world....

LameWolf

Another story with names changed.;)

I was married to Fred from 1983 to 2003.

When I left Fred in 2002, I moved to MK, where I now live, and married Frank as soon as my divorce was finalised.

Shopping at my usual supermarket, with Frank as always pushing my wheelchair, a chap walked up to Frank and said "Hello Fred. It is Fred, isn't it? Frank looked puzzled, and said "No", and the chap apologised and walked off, without actually speaking to me, or even looking directly at me.

The chap in question was Fred's best man, and it would seem it was me that he'd actually recognised, but didn't register the fact as I hadn't been in a wheelchair back in 2002.

That was a narrow escape!:eek:

Raine_E_Day

Have just remembered another coincidence. When I was eleven I hurt my wrist falling off a slide. At hospital, in OP Dept, my name was called so I stood up to go with the nurse - as did another girl. So the nurse repeated our names and then attempted to clarify by saying, "the girl with the wrist injury". We both remained standing. Then she said, "the left wrist". We both still stood there. She had to check date of birth to get the right one! We were both same age, but she was a couple of months younger. Our first name was pretty common, but the surname was not, and I quite often have to spell it as it so rare!

Ms_Chocaholic

Many years ago when I was young (about 7/8 at a guess) we were travelling down south on holiday in the car. We stopped at a service station to use the toilets and, as usual there was a long queue for the ladies, the person we were stood behind was my mum's aunt who was from a totally different part of the country.

converted

Talk about a small world.


I had taken my 10yr old grandson to Belgium, on the way home we were at the border control in Brussels ready to get on the Eurostar. We were almost at the front of the queue, there were about 6 booths for the border police. We followed the chap in front of us and were waiting to be checked, the booth next to ours was empty and the policeman there called us over for him to check our passports etc. He looked at both passports (we have different surnames) and asked what our relationship was, I said I was the grandparent, he asked if I had a letter from his parents allowing me to have him out of the county _ No! he asked if I could prove our relationship - No!, he asked my grandson 'what were his parents name' he told them. He then asked me if my grandsons' father had went to a certain school in Aberdeenshire - it turned out that this border control policeman in Brussels had been at the same small village school my grandsons' father. He then warned me to always ensure that I had a letter from the parents giving permission to have any child out of the country!

Ms_Chocaholic

Looking through some photographs with my partner, we discovered one of him along with a group of others on a course that was long before we ever met. In the photo he was stood next to my ex-husband's brother.

Rock_King

I lived & worked in Spain in the 90's. On a visit to UK I went to London for the day. Riding an escalator in an underground station I saw my Spanish work companion coming down opposite me. Didn't even know he was in England.
But wait, it gets better. 15 years later, having not met for about 10 years, we met again in a hotel in Mexico purely by chance. He and his wife were in the room next to us. But we went 12 days without seeing each other then met one morning on the stairs. Shock was an understatement.

chrisq2005

While driving through Death Valley in Nevada,USA. we rescued a girli who had flipped her car 5 times and it was on its roof. When the Ranger arrived and she gave him her name and date of birth, she had the same birthday as me !

smeeinnit

A couple of my coincidences..

As a 10 year old, new school year, I was sat next to a boy I had never met before. Over time we chatted, somehow got onto the subject of family, he spoke about his Uncle Steve and his wife Pauline and I spoke about my Auntie Pauline and her husband Steve. Yes you've guessed, same aunties and uncles, we were cousins!

My other half and I crossed paths in odd ways before we met, I went to see Genesis @ Knebworth, he found the satellite broadcast by chance and recorded it. Some years later when we got together he played it to me kinda "look at this great gig I recorded"...oh I said, I was there! We also went to a Jean Michel Jarre gig at Wembley on the same day, sat near each other too, again years before we met. We come from opposite sides of London, and when we met I was in the Midlands and he in east Anglia but had come real close to meeting many years earlier.

We both worked in telecoms for different companies, and for a short time even shared the same customer!

stejobeth

For 3 years on the run we saw the same family staying in our hotel. We never spoke just saw them round the pool etc. The thing is each holiday was a different time of the year in different countries.

Silvercat38

LOVE this thread, so interesting!

I have a couple of stories. I was standing in a queue to board a ride in Walt Disney World, Florida, one year. We got chatting to the family behind us as we had picked up on their British accents. We went through the usual, "where are you from?" etc., and it turned out they lived 4 doors down from us at the time!! 6,000 miles away from home and we had never met them before!

Then last year, again in Disney World, we had met up with a couple of new friends we had made via Disney fan websites. They live in Texas, we live in the UK. We really enjoyed their company for an hour, made plans to meet up again a couple of days later, then went our separate ways. Despite our plans for the next few days involving being in totally different places around the four Disney parks, we bumped into each other constantly for a week! At one point, the husband was in a queue for a ride, turned round and took a photo of the ride queue to capture the atmosphere, and when he looked at the photo he had taken, we were accidentally in it!

We had visited Disneyland in California just before flying to Florida, had never been there before, and bumped into David Tennant and his family in a ride queue - I am not making this up, we have photos!

And finally - like a previous poster, it turns out that my husband and I had inadvertantly crossed paths many times before we actually met, 14 years ago. We had been to the same concerts and theatre shows on the same days, and knew a few people who separately knew both of us. We met when I started a new job in an arts centre, but had been totally unaware of each other before that point. Then I found out he had been one of my daughter's tutors at college!! (Freaked her out a bit when we got together, but hey ho!) :rotfl: