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Where is the most random place you have bumped into someone you went to school with?

54 replies

OneUmberJoker · 04/09/2025 19:47

Post school obviously

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LegoPicnic · 04/09/2025 19:52

Outside a Tesco Express in Brighton on a random non-summer weekday.

We did not go to school or uni anywhere near Brighton and neither of us lived there or had family living there.

GiveTheGoblinsSnacks · 04/09/2025 19:53

In the delivery room!

Thelondonone · 04/09/2025 19:54

Blue lagoon, Iceland.

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Unexpectedlysinglemum · 04/09/2025 19:54

A little Thai island kho Tao

PrimaniTu · 04/09/2025 19:55

At an internet cafe in Melbourne - showing my age here.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 04/09/2025 19:55

My sister (from east Anglia) went to Everest base camp and met her old bus prefect

Ddakji · 04/09/2025 19:55

In the bookshop I was working in. She was working at a merchant bank round the corner. It simply didn’t compute to her that working in a bookshop was my job.

FoxIn25 · 04/09/2025 19:55

Auckland airport! We're from Scotland,not NZ. Oh and a uni mate in San Diego, that was weird.

coxesorangepippin · 04/09/2025 19:56

Pompeii

supportergirl · 04/09/2025 19:56

At great Yarmouth pleasure beach - I went to a 10 person school in new Zealand and they don't live in the UK

RedRiverShore5 · 04/09/2025 19:57

At a Michael Buble concert, I saw someone that was in my class from school about 50 years ago

pitterypattery00 · 04/09/2025 19:58

When renting a flat in a city quite far from where I went to school, the letting agent was a woman I'd been at school with - we used to sit together in French.

Squishymallows · 04/09/2025 19:58

Sitting opposite me on the tube, just randomly looked up and he said hi.

also bumped into some at Westfield shopping centre london

(we didn’t go to school in or around or near London…)

Losingthefaith · 04/09/2025 19:59

At the Nike shop in New York. We were at school together in London. Bumped into the same guy at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

MonsterBoo · 04/09/2025 19:59

I haven't bumped into anyone I went to school with thank god 😂

LindorDoubleChoc · 04/09/2025 20:04

The Comedy Store in London. It was Jack Dee, he had a Friday night spot very early in his career. I went to school with him. We had a quick chat in the bar.

Raera · 04/09/2025 20:05

Stonehenge

MrsMoastyToasty · 04/09/2025 20:05

I started a new job (1980s) and the head girl from the year above mine was working there.
I have also seen classmates and people who attended my school (but were in different years) on TV.

OnlyFrench · 04/09/2025 20:27

Directing traffic in Oxford St - she was a police officer, not just a bossy shopper

coxesorangepippin · 04/09/2025 20:29

OnlyFrench · 04/09/2025 20:27

Directing traffic in Oxford St - she was a police officer, not just a bossy shopper

😂

MistressoftheDarkSide · 04/09/2025 20:32

At my Uncles funeral after 40 odd years. Neither of us had any idea of this connection. Slightly discombobulating but we did connect with our mutual dislike of our school days.

BrickBiscuit · 04/09/2025 20:32

Reminds me of the Prime Minister (Attlee? Gladstone? Baldwin?) who met a school friend on a train, and they asked "So what do you do now?"

PicInAttic · 04/09/2025 20:45

coxesorangepippin · 04/09/2025 19:56

Pompeii

I wonder if we know each other @coxesorangepippin as I also bumped into someone from school in Pompeii!

beadystar · 04/09/2025 20:47

A backstreet, not trendy bar in Paris. We’re from Ireland.

andanotherproblem · 04/09/2025 20:56

My actual high school teacher from north England, I bumped into in Northern Ireland