Your "small world moments"

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I didn't know where else to post this

But what are your small world stories?

A lady I know from the UK moved to China for a bit and met another man from the uk and they lived together for a bit and then she came home.
I just found that that this man is now the boyfriend of newer friend.

What's are the odds?!

Sorry this man is the brother of a newer friends boyfriend (he still lives in China) everyone else is in the UK!

I have a cousin who is half German. At uni (here in the UK) I made friends with a guy who turned out to be his cousin too, but on the German side of the family.
Or recently having a work conversation and someone randomly mentioned an old school friend I haven't seen in over twenty years.
I've had plenty of small world moments come to think of it!

@Songsofexperience that's crazy!!! Moments like this fascinate me lol

I was in a very small village in turkey. The only other English people I met were a lovely couple. One night we got talking and I asked which university's they'd gone to. One mentioned the university my DD was at. I asked what subject she'd done. Same as my DD.

Suddenly, I got a flash back 15 years. I asked her if she played lacrosse? dds first girlfriend played lacrosse. She looked at me, and said oh my goodness, you are xx mother? I was.

We had never met, but remembered DD telling me about her.

I recently moved to the other end of the country changing jobs etc in the process. Turns out one of my new colleagues is best friends with one of my old colleagues. We are all from different parts of the country.

We recently bought a house. It's around the corner from DHs parents neighbours Sons flat. They used to play together as children. The new houses are 50miles away from hometown. The only reason this has been discovered is MIL talking with neighbour and mentioning the zoo we are buying next too.

We went to Arran for a holiday. It was practically empty, as we went after the Scottish schools went back.

Walked into a tiny little coffee shop to grab a slice of cake and and old colleague of dhs walked in. Her and her husband were doing a campervan tour of the scottish islands and just happened to be on the same island and in the same shop as us.

Just a small story compared to some, but still amazes me.

I went to Cornwall on a holiday with a few friends when I was 16. 2 of us got caught out too far from the shore and couldn't get back, 2 trainee life guards came out to get us and bought us back safely. Turns out the female life guard was my grandmas neighbour when she was a little girl. That was in London so not close to cornwall.

Was in Sydney and turned to ask a guy to take a pic of me & my cousin. It was a guy I was in college with! We were from Ireland

I went to university in the UK with a couple who met quite soon after starting. They both came from Finland, they were both from different ethnic minorities and both had been adopted - they grew up pretty close to each other distance wise but only met here in the UK.

Not that exciting but I had a childhood best friend who lived next door to me. He moved out when we were about 9 and I never saw or heard from again. Fast forward about 15 years, a friend of mine had recently started dating a guy and was going out with him and a group of his friends. She asked me and another friend to tag along. Got chatting to one of the guys, just random conversation. Mentioned the street I grew up on and he said he grew up in the same street. I asked him what number house as I didn't recognise him and turned out it was my childhood best friend. It was definitely an OMG it's you moment

We met a Bulgarian guy at a hostel in New Zealand. Turned out he lived two doors down from us in London. The New Zealanders couldn't understand how we didn't know each other but it's obvs totally normal for London.

I worked on an American summer camp when I was a student. When it shut at the end of the season, I spent a few weeks travelling around the States.

One day, I got on a greyhound bus and heard someone calling my name. It was a girl that I'd been at 6th form college with!

Live in a town in a rural part of uk went to Australia to visit family they were hosting a bbq with their friends whilst we were there. Another couple start speaking to us about Uk turns out their soon lives in the same very small town as us.

I interviewed a girl for a job who went to DHs school, turned out she was in his class and sat next to him in a few subjects. They had literally not seen each other for 20 years - Fast forward a few years and she was our matron of honour

I was on safari and we parked up to watch some lions or leopards. Each sighting was only allowed 3 trucks so there were only maybe 15 people there. I was doing a little people watching to see everyone's reactions and check out their cameras and I caught the eye of someone and then I realised I recognised them - we were in the same class at school. Odds of meeting a person I know in a game reserve in Africa seem pretty low!

I also randomly met at least 15 people I knew from home/college in the middle of NYC at various times when I lived there. The best was someone shouting my name from an open top bus and the other was spotting someone I knew in a subway carriage!

I love when things like that happen and the world feels a little more connected!

Walked into the kitchen in my office where I work to make a tea only to find my first proper boyfriend who I had not seen for about 18 years casually sat there. Probably more of a shock to him really, as the office is in his hometown but 50 miles from mine. Massively awkward. Had quick chat, went back to my desk, felt a bit flustered so left! my team were absolutely falling about laughing at my discomfort. Gits.

at university, over 200 miles from my home town, I fancied from afar a bloke who lived in the house directly over the road from mine.

when visiting friends back home, I walked into the pub to find my university crush parked in the corner nursing a pint. My mates didn't believe it could be the same chap, and so I summoned up the courage to ask if he lived on my university street, and he did. Poor man looked terrified TBH.

I worked with 2 people. One of them had a boyfriend working in Africa. The other persons friend was working and having an affair with him.
They were from other ends of the country and there was no connection otherwise.
We never told her btw....

Went to summer camp in Switzerland when I was 10. Turns out that one of the older boys that I ended up being in the same group with for playing mini golf happened to later be in the same boarding school as my older cousin. Only found out because my cousin said that the classmate told her he knew me and she asked me if I knew anyone by that guys name that was in her class

I had an American penpal when I was young and still living in Scandinavia. He was the only American I knew. 20 years later I was living in Munich and I met an American dude in the local bar. We talked about all kinds of things and then he mentioned his good friend from childhood, "Malachi". I said that's funny, I used to have a penpal named "Malachi". Turns out it was the same person.

Walking through London and Paris I have bumped into people I know in the street.

I bumped into an old colleague in a nightclub in Las Vegas. 6,000 miles from Scotland and I still couldn't avoid people I know

I have also twice walked past people i'd spoken to on dating apps in the middle of a large city.

I visited another UK city for a night. Mentioned on the way there that I knew one person who lived there, she had moved there for uni. She served us in a pub about an hour afterwards.