Have you ever run into someone from home when you were far, far, away?
Oct 28th, 2004, 04:39 PM
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2 weeks ago I was pulling up in my driveway around 930pm after driving home from the airport. I had been in Minneapolis on business.
My neighbors (and good friends) were pulling up at the same time and since they have 6 children from 6 mos to 12 years old I asked where they had been so late. She siad she had to pick up her husband from the a/p and I told her, had I known, I could have brought him home. She asked me what time my flight landed and we compared notes... as it turned out we WERE ON THE SAME FLIGHT! I arrived at the gate at the exact moment they announced 1st class boarding. I went straight onto the plane, seat 3A. I buried my head in a book immediately.
He was in the lounge, and boarded shortly after I did, seat 12B. We never saw each other.
Neither of us had ever been to Minneapolis. I was visiting Minnetonka and he was hunting in Wisconsin.
It was really bizarre... we just could not get over the coincidence. What are the odds?
My neighbors (and good friends) were pulling up at the same time and since they have 6 children from 6 mos to 12 years old I asked where they had been so late. She siad she had to pick up her husband from the a/p and I told her, had I known, I could have brought him home. She asked me what time my flight landed and we compared notes... as it turned out we WERE ON THE SAME FLIGHT! I arrived at the gate at the exact moment they announced 1st class boarding. I went straight onto the plane, seat 3A. I buried my head in a book immediately.
He was in the lounge, and boarded shortly after I did, seat 12B. We never saw each other.
Neither of us had ever been to Minneapolis. I was visiting Minnetonka and he was hunting in Wisconsin.
It was really bizarre... we just could not get over the coincidence. What are the odds?
Oct 28th, 2004, 09:39 PM
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I took my mother to Disney World/Epcot. At the airport my mother sat next to the football coach at Burden High School in Kansas (very small town) and the same school from which my mother graduated.
I was in Florence, Italy at an outdoor cafe and, in talking with the couple at the next table, learned that my father had taught the man at Waco High School in Waco, Texas.
I was in Florence, Italy at an outdoor cafe and, in talking with the couple at the next table, learned that my father had taught the man at Waco High School in Waco, Texas.
Oct 29th, 2004, 12:47 AM
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This is a funny thread...and yes, I have had that happen. I was headed back to the U.S. after spending almost a year living in Spain. After traveling in Europe I boarded the plane at Heathrow and as I made my way to my seat I saw a large contingent of people from my home town that were on their way back from a church trip to London.
Oct 29th, 2004, 11:00 AM
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Years ago, my then Husband and I were eating in a Mexican restaurant on Maui and ran into a fellow work associate of my husband . We had no idea that this other couple were going to be in Hawaii too.(We're all from Minnesota)
A few years later, we ran into the same couple while eating in a Mexican restaurant at Disney World.
From then on, everytime we ate at a Mexican Restaurant on a trip, we looked around to see if this other couple were around!
A few years later, we ran into the same couple while eating in a Mexican restaurant at Disney World.
From then on, everytime we ate at a Mexican Restaurant on a trip, we looked around to see if this other couple were around!
May 6th, 2005, 05:00 AM
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What a funny post and twice it has happened to me. First time was with my sister on a flight we had to race to get on from LA to Chicago. I was in such a haste I did not see an old flame sitting in fromt of me. Very uncomfortable flight as his new girlfriend thought it was odd we were still such good friends.
Second time, again with my sister and my now husband in a train station in Berlin. Thought I saw my ex-fiance who is Dutch with a good friend of his who is also Dutch. I had to keep doing a double take. I was living in Geneva, the ex in Amsterdam, my sister in Chicago, my now husband in England and here we all were getting on the same train to Vienna!
Second time, again with my sister and my now husband in a train station in Berlin. Thought I saw my ex-fiance who is Dutch with a good friend of his who is also Dutch. I had to keep doing a double take. I was living in Geneva, the ex in Amsterdam, my sister in Chicago, my now husband in England and here we all were getting on the same train to Vienna!
May 6th, 2005, 06:09 AM
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My husband and I were hiking on a mountain in the Canadian Rockies and reached a broad rocky plain that was really desolate -- reminded us of a moonscape -- and of course not another soul in sight. Then, from around a hill across the plain, another couple emerged and trudged toward us. When we met, we introduced ourselves and it turned out that the husband had been a student many years ago at the same eastern Pennsylvania small college where my husband teaches.
May 6th, 2005, 06:57 AM
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Just love these resurrected posts. My wife and I were in London several years ago and were at St. Pauls Cathedral. As we were approaching the line to get the audio tour, we bumped into another couple we knew from our small town in Colorado. Another time we were in the basement museum at Ford's Theater in Washington DC, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. It happened to be the some of a co-worker who was in DC with a high school group.
May 6th, 2005, 07:44 AM
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Yes. The husband half of neighbor couple while in Germany. I've never mentioned it to the wife half because she is just the type to think I'd go half way around the world to arrange a little rendevous with her spouse. Hahaha (if you saw him you'd know why I'm laughing).
May 6th, 2005, 07:56 AM
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Yup, when I was in a wine shop in Rome, I turned around and four people I went to college with walked in the door! Also ran into people I know from college in Las Vegas...
A bit unrelated, but while I was in Paris with friends, a guy overheard us talking about PA and said he was from a nearby town about 45 min from me. Then, a few minutes later another guy came up to us and said hey, I'm from PA too! It was a mini PA reunion
A bit unrelated, but while I was in Paris with friends, a guy overheard us talking about PA and said he was from a nearby town about 45 min from me. Then, a few minutes later another guy came up to us and said hey, I'm from PA too! It was a mini PA reunion
May 6th, 2005, 08:16 AM
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on a two month trip to the South Pacific , we ran into friends from Vancouver in the Cook Islands 10,000 miles from home,plus we ran into two other people we knew from Victoria while we were in new Zealand
May 6th, 2005, 08:26 AM
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The most surprising experience was running into a former student of mine while I was on vacation in Las Vegas. She was a student of mine while I was teaching in the DC Metro area which is where I still live. She had moved to California and was on vacation with her fiancee.
I frequently have random encounters with friends when I'm in New York, but I know a lot of people there so it isn't too surprising. It just isn't planned.
I frequently have random encounters with friends when I'm in New York, but I know a lot of people there so it isn't too surprising. It just isn't planned.
May 6th, 2005, 10:36 AM
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I was twenty and spending the summer travelling in Europe with some friends. While we were sitting in a car in Amsterdam we saw a guy from my college trying to arrange a business deal with one of the "professional ladies". I decided it wasn't a good time to yell "Hey, Steve, how's it going?"
May 6th, 2005, 10:47 AM
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This is a great Question!
1. on spring break in Florida, we ran into a guy that literally worked across the street from where I worked at home. Once he and his friends found out we were from the same city in Missouri, they moved on!!
2. We were at Rick's Bar near Negril, Jamaica, and there were some young people next to us at the bar from our city in Missouri. Again...once they knew we were from 'back home' they weren't interested in talking to us....
hmmmmm...
1. on spring break in Florida, we ran into a guy that literally worked across the street from where I worked at home. Once he and his friends found out we were from the same city in Missouri, they moved on!!
2. We were at Rick's Bar near Negril, Jamaica, and there were some young people next to us at the bar from our city in Missouri. Again...once they knew we were from 'back home' they weren't interested in talking to us....
hmmmmm...
May 6th, 2005, 11:36 AM
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1) In line at Magic Kingdom ride @ Disney World, ran into couple I knew from back home (Boston) with newly-adopted 8 y.o. son, showing him a great time!
2) Same trip, in the airport, friend and family of my 12 y.o. son in Orlando.
3) Cruised out of Miami on Carnival and on the same ship was a couple that I had graduated high school with.
4) On a trip to San Fran to visit a friend, and her friend joined us touring the city. Her friend said she knew someone from "Massachusetts", and it happened to be my ex's cousin. Talk about a small world...the one person she knows from Mass!
2) Same trip, in the airport, friend and family of my 12 y.o. son in Orlando.
3) Cruised out of Miami on Carnival and on the same ship was a couple that I had graduated high school with.
4) On a trip to San Fran to visit a friend, and her friend joined us touring the city. Her friend said she knew someone from "Massachusetts", and it happened to be my ex's cousin. Talk about a small world...the one person she knows from Mass!
May 6th, 2005, 01:23 PM
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In the Night Market in Chiang Mai Thailand bumped into people we had met on our trip to China two years earlier.
In Mae Hong Son, Thailand on an earlier trip met in hotel lobby, someone from my husband's college class he had not seen since graduation 40 years ago. He recognized my husband but maybe wearing a college teeshirt gave him a clue.
My daughter visiting Budapest met her grandmother's next door neighbor (whom she had never met before). They found the connection during "where are you from". Small world.
In Mae Hong Son, Thailand on an earlier trip met in hotel lobby, someone from my husband's college class he had not seen since graduation 40 years ago. He recognized my husband but maybe wearing a college teeshirt gave him a clue.
My daughter visiting Budapest met her grandmother's next door neighbor (whom she had never met before). They found the connection during "where are you from". Small world.
