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?!

We went to Florida on holiday and while walking round Disney World we heard someone shouting DH’s name. It was our next door but two neighbours. We had no idea they were going to America!

pre mobile days, worked a summer in a bar in south of france, stopped in Paris on way home for a few days, went to pere lachaise cemetary and met my DBro at Jim Morrisons' grave.

My husband was in the armed forces and, for us, the world is frequently very small.

The most recent example was a surveyor who was at our house. They got chatting and it turned out he was a veteran from a completely different regiment. He asked if my husband knew a particular person. Said person is one of my husband's oldest friends.

Sometimes I get quite freaked out by it all!

A new neighbour was telling me and DH about the recent death of a well known musician of whom he was a huge fan. Saying he was a local celebrity, how incredibly talented and cool he was, what a tragedy, for years he and his mates had followed this guy round loads of gigs like groupies, etc. I’m not into the music scene, I’m a middle aged mum. Anyway he said he would email some of this guy’s music across because it’s so amazing.

Of course I recognised the voice immediately, because I dated the guy for a couple of years when I was a teenager. I remember he used to sit on the end of the bed and play his guitar and sing to me while I smoked a cigarette after sex. He was hugely talented but I didn’t know he’d gone on to become semi-famous. The neighbour was utterly incredulous until I dug out old photos of us together. Then he got really excited and pestered me with loads of questions about my ex.

By a huge coincidence one of the songs the neighbour had chosen to send was called Anna Nana (Nana being my middle name which the neighbour didn’t know). The lyrics went something like “Anna Nana do you ever think of me, why did I let you go, I must try to forget but I remember your kiss” etc. Totally unexpected and sad. The look on the neighbours face when I told him I was Anna Nana was priceless.

My nephew is friends with a boy at school. Turns out his stepdad was a baby when we were neighbours.

I met my GP and her family at Disney world.

Dh met people he knew when we were on holiday in Toronto and Disney world.

At primary school in the 80s, I was in the same class as the nephew of a musician who was quite famous back then. Fast forward to 2001, I'm living in a city at the other side of the country and going back to my new boyfriend's house. There's a decrepit looking synth in the front room and NB tells me it belonged to this musician. I asked how he'd come to own it, turns out he lived with this nephew when he had lived in a different city!

Met other half in a different country. When we got chatting, we'd been in the same places at the same time on 3 separate occasions in two other countries!! We were destined to meet, I'm sure!

We discovered at our wedding that my dh godfather is my uncles, uncle. They had lost touch for years and were in tears when they met.

I got talking to my neighbour down the street who I've chatted to superficially for 5 years and it turns out I used to work with his daughter 10 years ago when I lived in a different city.

Got a couple, but for now I'm just following as small world stories and coincidences fascinate me lol

I grew up in quite a close knit town in the London suburbs, everyone used to bump into everyone in the Broadway, on the train etc until we all left school and scattered around the country. I moved to the West Country, but then bumped into an old school crush mate at Liverpool Market, Gatwick airport and on the ferry to France within a year of moving away.

Studied in New York spent two weeks in San Francisco a few weeks later and saw a guy who was in my class, then I went home and a few weeks later went to Vegas and saw him again

I met a girl from my uni course on a ski slope in Poland. There were only 30 on the course!

I met a work friend that had emigrated to Oz on a beach in Thailand. I had just arrived on a boat and he was about to get onto a boat to leave so our paths crossed for literally a few minutes.

On my wedding day I found out that my best friend since school was a niece of my husbands uncles wife - so we are now related in some distant way.

I love these stories!

After uni I was working for a company in Shanghai and one of my colleagues set me up on a blind date with one of her friends. I walked into the restaurant and it was someone I went to high-school with. I'm from a small town in the middle of nowhere in North America.

I'd just gone back to work (on the south coast) after my Mother's death, and was saying to a workmate that although it wasn't far from the church to the crematorium, it had seemed like a really long way. She said it was the same for her when she went to her Grandmother's funeral at Ayr Crematorium. I said where had her Gran lived, and she said "Oh, a small village you won't have heard of", and told me the name. It was not only the same village where my cousin lived, my cousin was her Gran's hairdresser, and my cousin's husband had grown up in a semi-detached bungalow. My workmate's dad had grown up in the other half!

Many (45+) years ago we holidayed in Liechtenstein, and met a lovely couple in our hotel. Neither of us lived anywhere near each other in the UK.
3 or 4 years later we were holidaying in Wales and decided to take a trip on one of the Welsh railways. There sitting in the same carriage were this same couple , who by then, had two small children. Couldn't believe it!

Travelling in China, we made friends with another couple also travelling. Turned out the husband was the man who read our electricity meter.

When I was quite young, whilst living in a small town in the south coast I had a boyfriend who made me a mixtape. He decorated it quite distinctively. Fast forward 15 years in a different city with my then new best friend only to discover that she had a mixtape by the same guy. She was a northerner who had never been to my home town. She met him in a random house share.
My dh and I discovered on our first date that despite living over 150 Miles away then, we were both born in the same town at the same hospital and our parents lived 20 miles from each other.
Went to a gig in London and found myself stood next to my neighbour.
Love stuff like this. The world is a small place sometimes.

I had a holiday in New Zealand to see a friend who lives there. We went on a wine tasting trip one day and I was chatting to one of the other people in the group, who was also British. It turned out he lived in the same (very) small Welsh village as my aunt does.

We were Beer beach small children's playground in Dorset a few summers ago. There were only two other families there. Suddenly someone calls my DC name. I just assumed it was also the name of their dc.two minutes later, dc comes over and says, it's blank(name different from dc) from nursery. Turns out, it was some family who had moved to Dorset from our part of town. Had a lovely chat with them.

Forgot to mention, we live in the other side of the country, like South East

Several years ago, I was travelling for work, just got off a flight from U.K. to major South American city, and queuing at immigration. The queue snaked back and forth across a giant hall.

On the row beside me (going in opposite direction) suddenly came face to face with a guy I'd been at uni with 20 years earlier in a big northern city (the course was very small - only 20 students per year) and had lost touch with.

He'd just flown in on a different flight from another European city where he now lives - but the flight had been delayed and arrived later than scheduled.

Neither of us had been to this destination before or since. What are the odds?

We're still in touch.

When I was 6 I lived for a very few months, next door to a little girl of the same age, but who went to a different school.
We played together after school or on weekends, and then we moved four hours drive away.

Fast forward almost thirty years, and I have gone back to that city for an event.
In the line behind is an older gentleman. He taps my arm, and asks, "Is that you Seafog?" It was the father of the girl!
He said he'd know my face anywhere, which was sweet and a little weird, haha

I was in California and got talking to a man on a beach. We were talking about surfing and he said his favourite place to surf in the Uk was X in Cornwall and asked if I had heard of it. I hadn't mentioned where in UK I was from and I don't really have much of an accent but I had been born and grew up in that exact place. It's a small coincidence but it took me by surprise.