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?!

My brother played a sport and he was quite good. In order to get an England ranking you have to beat a person who already has an England ranking in a suitably registered tourneys to. This was difficult as you basically had to be in the right place at the right time.

Db went to a tournament and was due to play someone who was ranked but was really good. Amazingly he beat him.

The next week my dad was telling my gran about db’s amazing victory. Mentioned the name of the boy he beat. 2 weeks later gran came back. Boy’s name had rung a bell with her. Turns out he is our half second cousin.

Never saw him again.

@Kettlingur

Stories like this make me think these
Moments happen for a reason!!! Thanks for sharing everyone!!

Was sitting on the beach in the Scottish highlands, 600 miles from home. Got chatting to the only other family there and it turned out we live 10 mins apart. Thought that was a bit weird!

A year after graduation from a Welsh uni, I was queuing at reception in a hostel in Auckland. The girl in front of me had been on my course too.

My parents wedding - mum’s family and dad’s family had never been introduced . As far as my mum thought . Dad was from one end of the country, mum the other .

When all sat down, my gran (mum’s mum) turned to look at my dad’s family - specifically my dad’s uncle ...and realised they were her next door neighbours in the 1940s - in a tiny almost unknown hamlet . They’d been friends with her parents for years and years . They had all grown up together, but had lost contact some 30 years ago .

I found I had bought a paperback book once owned by my Father in Law (his not very common name and his address were written inside) that I had bought, in a city he had never been to, 25 years before meeting my wife.

On holiday in Greece, we got talking to our holiday rep. She said I looked a bit familiar. Turned out we had gone to the same school about 10 years earlier, and her brother had been in my class.

At work in Scotland talking to a new colleague and discovered we both went to the same British Forces primary school abroad.

One of my uncles on my mother's side who lives in the UK bumped into one of my dad's relations who lives in Malta in a hotel bar in Italy. They'd never met before, he just thought a detail from something she said sounded familiar and asked if my dad's last name meant anything to her. It did.

On holiday in Tunisia waiting for the lift and a sales rep from my company walks out straight into me - he said his hotel was rubbish and preferred ours; luckily I was leaving two days later.

Swimming in a pool in Spain, and a manager from the same company and his wife walked up and said “what are the chances, eh?”

How unlucky am I - twice!

I came downstairs one day and said to my uni housemate 'I had a weird dream about (name of boy I went to school with 10 years before)' she said I know him! I had moved around all my young life, went to uni in a different city to where I grew up and a different city to where she lived yet we both knew the same lad.

Oh and when I lived in the US, I took a taxi ride from someone whose overseas girlfriend he met online lives about 2 miles away from me!

I met a guy OLD (about 15 years ago). Dated for about 6 months (exclusive in the end, but never really called him my 'boyfriend'). Turned out he was my second cousin (my father's-cousin's-son).

So there's that.

We remain friends, both married (other people), good guy. Bit too close for comfort.

Oooh one more!!

I grew up in Yorkshire and lived next door to a family whose son me and my siblings used to play with all the time.

Moved to Scotland as an adult, worked for the NHS and the local MSP was doing a visit to the A&E department, equipped with local press and a PR team. His PR person was the boy from next door, who now lived in Scotland too!

A Uni friend put some school pictures up on Facebook. I was scrolling past them but froze when I spotted my husbands ex-girlfriend in one of the pictures!

Funniest was a holiday shag romance in Turkey. He asked for and got my address and phone but for me it was a bit of fun.

He phoned a couple of times, which I was flattered by but never reciprocated.

Following February, I received a valentine's postcard from him. A couple of days later, my daughter came home from the pub she was working in with a postcard. It had been wrongly delivered to the pub and should have been delivered to the woman living next door. From the same guy. (Same sentiments, slightly different wording).

Also, when I was a child my family made friends with another family on holiday. 5 years later we bumped into the same people on holiday (different place and different dates)

Great aunt moved into a home at the age of 93. Struck up a friendship with a lady there of the same age. Turned out they'd been in the same primary school class and they'd played together as little kids.

I have bumped into a friend on a street in Quito, Ecuador. But, more bizarrely, I moved into randomly assigned uni accommodation to find someone from a couple of my sixth form college classes also living there. We are very different and have nothing in common, so didn't really keep in touch. However, we both stayed in the area and bump into each other every now and then. She lives about a mile from me now, and I think we will end up in the same nursing home...

I sat next to a woman on a flight from Tel-Aviv to Heathrow. No chance of sleeping due to a packed and rowdy flight so we got chatting.

Turns out her Mum and my gran grew up two doors away from each other in a tiny Irish village!

Got on a bus in Italy. Heard my name. It’s the admin worker for our team, next town over from where I worked. Odds of us both being on that bus???

When we were engaged DH grab going on holiday meeting a couple who knew my dads family (from a totally different part of scotland)

I have too many.

On a train in NZ on honeymoon. We chatted to another couple, also living in our small town in the UK. And .... realised that both guys had been volunteers for the same organisation around the same time but had not met.

My husband and one of his housemates realised that they were friends with the same person in another country (only after the third time one of them had been out to visit the person since moving in to the sake house - mainly proof that these two particular guys didn't talk much!).

Held a door open in a shop in Lanzarote for a girl behind me her mum had dropped something. When she stood up I realised it was an old colleague.

Went on holiday to Australia, got in a minibus for a wine tasting tour. The other family on the minibus, lived around the corner from my parents and their daughter went to school with my brother.

My boyfriend who I lived with broke up with me and so I moved to the other side of the world and start a new job. A couple of years later and that ex is working in the building next door to me (in a very big city), there are then lots of awkward encounters such as accidentally being in same train carriage or same supermarket near work etc..the work was feeling a bit too small at that point

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