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?!

On frazer island in australia , a girl walked by as I was saying I was from a village called kells on Ireland, she stopped in her tracks and said I might'nt sound it but I am from kells too. She was an ex neighbour of mine and moved to the UK when she was 3 years old twenty years earlier. I was friends nvwith her older sister. I remember vividly chasing the car as they drive away. Small world.

I moved abroad to Asia for work. First night out, trying to meet new people and the first guy I got chatting to and became friends with had lived 5 mins away from me in the Uk his whole life, even had a school weekend job at the supermarket my family went to, and had moved out to this random country that neither of us had any connection to only 4 weeks before me!

I was sat in a coffee shop in Sorrento with my mum and one of my work friends waltzed in with her boyfriend.

Walking up a lighthouse in the south of France. Coming down the stairs were a family from the same village who my parents were friendly with. Turned out they were holidaying about 20 miles from us so we met up after that.

From London, and I was Sat in a cafe in Queenstown New Zealand.

Got chatting to a guy on the next table. Where are you from etc. Told him the town, he said "oh, do you know x area?"

I said yes, that's where I live, in X street.

He was the guy who owned the house next door, he'd let it out for a few years to go travelling. He asked if the neighbours from hell next door were behaving now - we'd all complained to the letting agent about their mess and noise and he had to read them the riot act

I was on holiday in Vancouver and went to a restaurant. I'd been to uni with the waiter!

Met a woman in the hotel coffee shop in New Orleans whilst killing time to check out. Got chatting and shared a taxi to airport, she was American and traveling to UK on same flight. We chatted at the airport and she was originally born in a town 8 miles from my home, which is where she was going.

I went to school in China and befriended an American girl. Later on I moved to Sweden and she moved to the USA to finish high school. My Swedish friend in Sweden moved to India to finish school and started a dating a guy form Ethiopia and I met him when they came to visit Sweden. Few years later I am skyping my American friend and she introduces me to her roomate in USA and it is the guy from ethiopia!

When I first moved to London the house my friends and I rented was four doors down from the house my in-laws were living in when DP was born twenty years earlier.

My maternal grandparents, who met towards the end of WWII when they were posted to the same army base, were from very different backgrounds geographically and socially, but both their families come from the same small town in Devon

My mom's from Kilkenny, emigrated to the States around 1961. I was born in America, as were my brothers. Anyway, my brother was out one night at a bar in Manhattan (or maybe it was Brooklyn), met 'the girl of his dreams', a Jersey girl from across the river. They hit it off, had a great night, good laugh, exchanged numbers, and all that. When he saw her surname, he realized she shared a family name, Tóibín. To make a long story short, before the end of the night, they realised they were something like first cousins twice removed... really close. I think she was the daughter of the daughter of my mom's first cousin (an Irish immigrant in New York). We grew up in California, so we kind of lost touch with our sprawling Irish immigrant clan and reconnected with them as adults when we were on the East Coast. So when my brother moved to New York and met this woman, it was all a bit of a big surprise, surprise! I believe they went on the second date. He didn't end up with her, but it's a good story. And a small world.

Made friends with a girl on holiday in Greece when I was 18. Turns out we were second cousins and we shared the same great grandparents.

Oh and I went to Uni 200 miles from where I grew up and when I walked into my accommodation there was a girl from my history class in sixth form there. We'd been put in the same house. When our other housemates showed up there were four pairs of people from the same schools around the country out of 12 people.

No other house had this so it wasn't like a buddy system.

Years ago I was backpacking in the US and I met a Swiss girl in LA airport who was telling me all about a great hostel she was staying in. I travelled back to the hostel with her where she introduced me to her british boyfriend who just happened to be my very recent ex!

I went to uni' in NZ, and there was another girl with the same name as me, and we were always getting each others' library fines.

Over in the UK, several years later, and DH mistakenly sent an email internally, within the company he worked, meant for me at an external company. It went to her. . . and we've still never met, lol.

I moved to London from Finland 7 years ago and joined Tinder. After a few awful dates I agreed to go on a date with someone I had barely chatted to, swearing it'll be the last date and then I would delete the app. The date was a very nice surprise and I had a great time. At some point he asked me where I was from (he had assumed I was German because of my name) and it turned out his ex-girlfriend was from my small hometown and I went to school with her little brother. We had been to the same clubs and gigs back in the early 2000s when he spent a lot of time in Finland. We're now married and expecting our first kid.

That's lovely PeggySue!

Went on holiday to one of these adults only all inclusive resorts in Jamaica with now DH who wanted to play golf while there. There was an older English couple in the same hotel who were also golfers so we got chatting and ate dinner with them one night. Turned out the man had been DH’s uncles first boss and mentor as a stockbroker in London many years before!

I popped into a loo in Manly , Sydney .When I returned my teenager son was missing . He was chatting to a friend from Basingstoke !

My friend from New Zealand moved to London for work . Her English boss left and moved away - she didn’t know where . 2 years later she bumped into him in LAX airport and 3 years later she met him on a beach in Greece!

Stepson had a child with his girlfriend who happens to be the niece of my ex's biological mum (he was adopted at birth but reunited with his mother as an adult). So my DS's niece is the second cousin (or similar) of my ex. The girlfriend has never met my ex and does not know he exists because his mother hasn't told her family she is in contact with him.

A colleague I’ve known for 20 years was asking me about family tree research I’d done-my paternal side comes from a fishing village about 40 miles away. She then spoke to her father about it, telling him my maiden name which is fairly distinctive.
Turns out her grandmother was my great grandmother’s lodger in the 1920s!!

I was on holiday in Puerto Rico, and was hanging out with some people from Texas and Bermuda - and they did not know eachother. The Texan used to work at my local pub, and the Bermudan used to live about four streets away from me.

I was all 🤯🤯

Was living in the Isle of Man - was pregnant and had an appointment with the consultant at the hospital he mentioned he'd not be there for my next and having seen my records (of course) mentioned that the locum consultant had worked at the hospital I'd had my first children in Yorkshire. Turns out the locum was indeed my consultant from that hospital...the one I'd been babysitter for (to his children) as a teenager!

Another one was it turned out that a good friend I made in the IOM was the childhood best friend to one of my DHs second cousins (in Norfolk).

Another one (really my DDs) We moved away from an area when DD finished yr3 we then moved from that area (2 yrs later) to the IOM. At the same time as DD left yr 3 another boy in her class also moved away to another area of the country. When In the IOM (4 yrs later) DD got a new boy in her form....it was the boy who'd she had been to Primary school with from reception to end of yr 3. We moved back to the UK when DD was in yr 9 and the boy also left the island...DD and he have ended up at the same uni albeit doing different subjects!

A sad one.

Two parts of one side of the family unknown to each other and who never met. Both had sons who died in the Holocaust, transported to the camp where they died, on the very same train.

Became friends with someone in the Middle East who taught close family member in the U.K.

Met a family members ex next door neighbour at a school abroad

Whilst on holiday on a small island (not Maldives but that kind of thing) met a family on the beach who were living there but the Dad was a good friend of a family members next door neighbour.

DD taught by a teacher is Central America whose parents live in the same small village as a close family member.

I could go on, the world is a very small place.

Two years in a row on holiday - once in Greece and once in Turkey, - I have got talking to random guy's who know dp. One went to school with him and the other two knew him from a hobby. I wasnt with Dp on either holiday and the guy who went to school with him now lives on the other side of the country so the fact we got talking and realised we knew dp was remote once never mind twice