He's not called Steve, is he?

[MasterBeth]

Do some people on Mumsnet not realise how big the internet is?

There's a post on here today about a rowdy family on a UK beach and someone's reply is "It's not Polzeath, is it?"

What are the chances, eh?

It's like when someone posts about a grumpy shop assistant and someone answers "Do they work in Tesco Express in Hull?"

Or someone mentions their terrible boss and the reply comes in "Are their initials P.H?"

AIBU in thinking the people who post these things have the most restricted and delusional worldview?

We went on holiday almost 200 miles away bumped into neighbours

In my dds nursery her deadbeat dad was called Steve as was one of the staffs child's deadbeat dad and her friends deadbeat dad was also Steve we came up with the saying not all men unless they are called Steve

I dont really read that much into those comments so I barely notice them. Its a small world though so you never know 😄

I have a work colleague whos a darling but just a tad crazy. She will ask what I did at the weekend for example and when I say oh we went into x city she will be like
"Oh I have a friend who lives there! Ginger Micheal. Always wears a beret. Didn't bump into him did you?" Or we went to the zoo " "Oh my friend Dan goes there a lot. Big curly hair has a scottish accent. You cant miss him" And I honestly just find it hilarious.

Yes this annoys me too!

It’s definitely not said in jest or as a show of empathy.

I see it the most on posts about dishonest men. “Does his name start with P and does he live in Blackpool?”. Like there is only person in the whole world who is a shit boyfriend!

I’m English. I live in Yorkshire. Earlier this year we booked a holiday in Co Galway. Turns out a local Irish friend knows the landlord. He was the son in the family who grew up next door to.

I was once asked, on a pirate party ship in Cancun if I knew Lesley M*** from Yorkshire. Used to be a nurse on a maternity ward. I replied yes. Because she was my aunty!

I didn't ask the nurse I worked with of he knew my friend who was from the same country as him. Then when we got chatting I realised he was her Dad!

😂

I think its meant to be a tongue in cheek comment 😅

I’m Irish, we can always make a connection… my DB now lives in Scotland and he can make connections with people in both countries 🤣

Honestly, joking aside the world is small! I was cat-sitting the other week (not in my local area) and there was a table of men next to my table, having a meal. One of them said something about Creepy Crawley, which made me smile because I used to live on the outskirts of Creepy Crawley... he caught my smile and said: "Do you know it?" I said: "I used to work there and lived in Pound Hill." Three minutes of chat later... he's friends with someone who used to be a friend of my former husband! This chap ended up texting him and saying: "Do you happen to remember Arlanymor? I'm in a restaurant next to her!" He texted back saying: "I do! Send her my love! Divorcing EX HUSBAND NAME was the best thing she ever did - he was a total arsehole! I never speak to him now and I hope she doesn't either as she was so nice!" Ha ha... my divorce was 20 years ago. It was surreal but in a lovely way. Then we all drank a leeeeetle bit too much red wine to celebrate..!

It's "tongue in cheek", the poster doesn't really think it's that person but is saying they have had a very similar experience

We once went to a nice restaurant in Madrid. The owner asked where we were from, and we said London. She asked if we knew ‘Sophie’ from S London. We said no. She then ignored us. All quite strange!

I've spotted people I know on here before, just a slight odd detail or fact that makes as me realise I knew them!

I also had a acquaintance who was reported to social services after posting on here as someone recognised her situation (and frankly was rightly reported as she was describing a comedown from both excess alcohol and coke, and the noise her kids were making disturbing her)

so sometimes I think it may be true!

My mum was 1 of 7.

It’s quite often I meet someone that knows a cousin of mine. (Or their kids know one of my cousins kids)

my colleagues often joke when discussing they’ve been out with a friend “are you related to them?” 😂

Many really aren’t.

When it’s a serious thread about someone being treated badly by a man, it’s really not tongue in cheek.

Got to say, one of my best mates is from Norfolk. Whenever I’ve met ANYONE else from Norfolk, they’ve known her family 😂 It’s happened three time now - once we weren’t in the UK.

apologies to any Norfolk folk this might offend !

Oh holiday anywhere and i would be asked where do you live and i would say London and they would answer which part. At that point i would ask them if they knew London when they usually replied no my answer would be "you know the posh part on the telly where the King lives and big ben?..? Not that part" they would laugh but its a pointless question if you don't know London

It’s like when people won’t say what their husbands hobby is as it’s “outing”.

It’s golf or cycling, Linda. You can say it, it’s okay.

My Dad was from Cork and it was exactly the same with him.

First time I went there with him we weren’t even off the plane when he bumped into a guy he knew, who’d literally just started working at the airport that day 🤣☘️

I've concluded (by using Facebook) that I am only one stop away from every other Welsh speaker so maybe Morwenna at least I will know someone who knows her.

Was he called Billy?

Of course not.

I used to work for the BBC, back in the days when there were about 25,000 of us. Pretty much everyone in London at that point seem to know somebody who worked for the BBC- so would say ooooh do you know X? You must do, they are in Television Centre all the the time! And funnily enough, no, I didn't!

Hi Dai, you alright?