Such a small world

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Our DD is in London this weekend with 3 other friends.
On Facebook a friend of mine also with 3 friends who lives over 80 miles away from me but in the same county as I live is also in London. (She doesn't know my family)
This friend has just posted photos of her stating how nice it is to meet new people who are near enough neighbours.
The 8 of them are now having a meal and drinks together.
Yes it's our DD in the group.

😀

When my dad retired, he celebrated by going on a 'holiday of a lifetime' to the USA.

Within 5 minutes of landing he bumped into one of his former work colleagues at JFK airport!

I was 11, walking up a road in Weymouth, on holiday. Suddenly, a voice, 'Is that you Judy?'. Turns out it was a family we had met 6 years earlier, in the same 'boarding house' (now B&B) on the Isle of Wight.

Weird coincidences do happen. In the words of Terry Pratchett, 'Million to one chances happen 9 out or 10 times)

Started talking to a random person in the U.S. who was working at a convention who told me he’d recently been to London after hearing my accent. I asked where he’d stayed and he mentioned the area I grew up in. I asked if he remembered the street name and said he didn’t but had a picture of the building. Turns out he’d been staying with my parents’ downstairs neighbours.

DH and I were hiking in a very remote spot in Northumbria, and bumped into some acquaintances from a hobby group in London.

ExDH and I had a weekend away in Stratford years ago. Ordered a taxi from our hotel to the town centre.
Got chatting to taxi driver on the way in, mentioned we came from South Wales. He told us he was from there originally. I ask where, he mentions my village. Amazed, I ask where specifically and he names the street I grew up in. I realise then exactly who he was and when he moved away. His mum was one of my DM’s best friends, and I actually remembered when the taxi driver was born 🤣

My brothers randomly assigned university roommate was a boy he had played with as a toddler... only discovered when friend asked why he had a train ticket to the village in Scotland where he had lived as a child and where our grandmother lived. Grandmother had been their next door neighbour for a year.

I used to work in London and had a good friend on the team, let’s calll him Ben. Ben resigned and went off travelling to Australia. My career moved on and I ended up living and working in Switzerland. 20 years later I later met my husband who is from Denmark. After posting some Christmas photos Ben messages me to ask how I know DHs family. It turns out that Whilst travelling through Australia, Ben met and travelled with DHs sister and they are now also good friends. DSIL and I have a wonderful relationship so every time we’re together we send a joint selfie to Ben, it’s weird but nice to also join some dots.

I had a tutor when I was a teenager who was married to a man called Edward. Fast forward 10 years and my dad remarried. Turns out 'Edward' was my new step mums ex husband. So weird.

The lines on the bell-shaped curve never quite touch zero. It would be more worrying if these ‘one in a thousand’ chance associations never happened at all!

A man used to walk his dog past our house every day come rain or shine. We didn't know him or ever speak to him but my mum always commented on him because he was this very well built 'hard' looking man (1980s skinhead) walking the tiniest, cutest little dog.

We went on holiday a two hour drive away and on our first day there saw him walking his dog along the pier!

We met a family at a campsite in France one year, bumped into the same family staying at the same hotel in Orlando a couple of years later.

Age 14, mum and dad took me and my sister to London to see a show and do a bit of Christmas shopping. In Covent Garden, we very literally bumped into cousins that live in Yorkshire and hadn't been down south in over ten years!
Was a lovely surprise.

When travelling in Australia I got chatting to a Greek man who had lived in Australia for 30 years. We got chatting about how my parents had a house in Greece at the time in a remote location but with a shop 1 min walk away; it was his parents shop!

8 years later we went to said house with my DP and we're sat in our favourite bar 15 mins away, who walked in but the Aussie guy I'd talked to!

I bumped into someone from work at a hotel in the Caribbean. I had no idea they were going to be there, just walked into the restaurant and thought that looks like Sarah!
It was quite a small hotel too.