[TheQuietKidd]

Yogi wrote:

TheQuietKidd wrote:

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I once ran into a friend walking down Lundy's Lane,

Lundy's Lane, WHERE? !!

I used to live just a few streets over from 'Lundy's Lane' at C.F.B. Shilo Manitoba.

The famous one, in Niagara Falls lol
I guess there is a world outside of Ontario

[BartSimpson]

Lisa and I drove from Sacramento to BC in 2003 and took the loop around from Vancouver to Whistler and then over to Lilooet and back to Van along the Fraser River.

We stopped for lunch at a little deli in Lilooet (GREAT apple pie! ) and in walks my cousin Frank from Boston, Mass.

The odds of that are just staggerring, I'm sure.

[WDHIII]

Heres a weird one....


During a Racquetball tourney at my club my opponent hit the ball over the back glass and it bounced down a LONG hallway at the end of the courts that management used to use to store tables and chairs for banquets.

Took me a few but I finally found it but as Im crawlin out from under a stack I see a Polaroid lyin on the floor.. one of the faces looked a little familiar so I picked it up.

Turns out I knew BOTH faces in the pic.

I went to school with Jeff C... played three years of football with him.

I went to University to Ed Z.

The two were sitting at a table at a night club.

I phoned Jeff later that evening and described that pic to him..... apparently his G/F took it at a comedy club in Calgary.... Ed Z came with a friend that night.... it was the first (and last) time they would ever see each other.

HOW that pic got into club he had NO IDEA

[newfette]

The cadet Corps that I work with had a new voluenteer coming on a few years ago. turns out to be someone i met at summer camp when i was 14

[newfette]

that you know of

[raydan]

I worked in financial institutions for a while and moved around a lot.
I had started to work in a new place and went out with co-workers to play volleyball.
After the game a few of us (all-male) went to a bar for a drink.
At the table next to us there were a few girls having fun.
I started talking to one of them (very cute and very sexy), found out she was a flight attendant and she looked like a girl looking for adventure.
We talked a bit about where we lived before and at one point, I told her I had worked in a bank in _______.
She looked at me strangely and then addressed me by my last name (which I had not told her).
She then told me who she was.
It seemed that I had foreclosed on her parent's home 5-6 years back.

I went from thinking that I was going to get laid that night to "I'm not getting any tonight" in about 5 seconds.

[Sherminator333]

I was walking past a pub that I is nearby my house and saw a guy from school that I had not seen for 10 years or more. How I was surprised as it was a gay pub and I did not know that was his thing.

[PluggyRug]

In the 70's I was at a computer college in London England. Whilst there I stayed at a house in Willesden Green with 6 other students.

In my room was a small closet....one day I moved it and found an expensive pair of sunglasses behind.

Years later when I moved to Canada my first job was working with a computer/fax company.
My boss was English and one day we got to talking about the old days.

Turns out he took the same course, at the same college, stayed at the same house, in the same room. He moved out the day before I moved in.

Turns out they were his sunglasses, but by that time they had been re-lost.

[Sherminator333]

PluggyRug wrote:

In the 70's I was at a computer college in London England. Whilst there I stayed at a house in Willesden Green with 6 other students.

In my room was a small closet....one day I moved it and found an expensive pair of sunglasses behind.

Years later when I moved to Canada my first job was working with a computer/fax company.
My boss was English and one day we got to talking about the old days.

Turns out he took the same course, at the same college, stayed at the same house, in the same room. He moved out the day before I moved in.

Turns out they were his sunglasses, but by that time they had been re-lost.

Willesden Green, that's near me! I am near Kilburn

[PluggyRug]

Sherminator333 wrote:

PluggyRug wrote:

In the 70's I was at a computer college in London England. Whilst there I stayed at a house in Willesden Green with 6 other students.

In my room was a small closet....one day I moved it and found an expensive pair of sunglasses behind.

Years later when I moved to Canada my first job was working with a computer/fax company.
My boss was English and one day we got to talking about the old days.

Turns out he took the same course, at the same college, stayed at the same house, in the same room. He moved out the day before I moved in.

Turns out they were his sunglasses, but by that time they had been re-lost.

Willesden Green, that's near me! I am near Kilburn

Ah.. the good old Jubilee Line, I think

[Sherminator333]

PluggyRug wrote:

Sherminator333 wrote:

PluggyRug wrote:

In the 70's I was at a computer college in London England. Whilst there I stayed at a house in Willesden Green with 6 other students.

In my room was a small closet....one day I moved it and found an expensive pair of sunglasses behind.

Years later when I moved to Canada my first job was working with a computer/fax company.
My boss was English and one day we got to talking about the old days.

Turns out he took the same course, at the same college, stayed at the same house, in the same room. He moved out the day before I moved in.

Turns out they were his sunglasses, but by that time they had been re-lost.

Willesden Green, that's near me! I am near Kilburn

Ah.. the good old Jubilee Line, I think

Yes, I use it everyday, it really is a small world. I was in Willesden just the other day.

[SprCForr]

I seemed to only meet up with a friend of mine from the early 80's in major European airports. I ran into him in Frankfurt in 92, Heathrow in '93 and Schiphol (Amsterdam) in '97. Last time I saw him was in Edmonton in '03. At the airport, while waiting for Nana to fly in.

Small world indeed.

[TheQuietKidd]

Ooo, I have another drum corps story (because I'm sure you all are soooooo intersted!)!
Met there people at a movie theater event in March of 2005 (Walled Lake, MI), then went to a show in Toledo, Ohio in early July. They ended up sitting right behind us. Then at a show in Battle Creek, MI (late July 2006) I sat next to them again! And then they sat behind me at a show in Allentown, PA last August.

[cgelsie]

1) Most of my cousins on my mother's side are a decade or more older than me. A few years ago, one such cousin died from cancer. Because of the age difference, we had never interacted much. In fact, after her sons and I stopped going to the same elementary school, we rarely saw each other. But I always had a soft spot for her. When I was 3, we attended her wedding and she gave me her stuffed tiger. 40 yrs on I still have the thing.
In any case, I took time off work to attend the funeral. My parents and husband were already there when I arrived. They had saved me a seat but with their usual logic, they sat in the 3 seats next to the aisle and saved the 4th one in for me. While settling in, I banged the lady beside me with my purse. I apologized but didn't look over at her because the pastor was approaching the mike. She reached over and tapped my leg, asking what I was doing there. It was a friend of mine. I told her it was my cousin's funeral and asked her how she knew her. She replied that her uncle had been married to my cousin. Her mother had asked her to attend on behalf of the family. Since I had been 3 and my friend had been in her early teens at the wedding, we hadn't made much of an impression on each other.
A couple of weeks later, we were telling this story to someone over coffee. It turned out the woman we were telling the story to had gone to high school with my cousin's brother.
2) My niece accepted a job in my city. Her new employers paid for her move up her from the Lower Mainland. Because of timing issues, she sent her stuff ahead. My parents went to her new home to let the movers in to unload the furniture and boxes. While talking to the movers, my dad found out a couple of them were originally from Sask. He asked their last names, on the off chance he knew their parents or grandparents. One of them had my grandma's maiden name. My dad asked if he was from a particular place in SK. Surprised that my dad had heard of the place, the young man said yes, why. Cause it meant he's a cousin. The young man thought that was pretty cool and took my parents # for the next time he's in town.
3) On a ride from the airport to home, the cabbie and I were talking about finding family in odd places. He told me he had gone to a big family reunion in AB. A few days after he was back home working, he gave a woman a ride from the airport. She mentioned she was coming home from a family union in AB. He mentioned he'd been at a reunion also and where had hers been? It turns out that they had been at the same reunion. They just had never met because there were so many people there.
The Prairie Theory of Relativity-Everyone's either a relative, a relative's relative or they know your relative.