It's a small world
Dec 15, 2011, 4:07 pm
#61
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: HPN
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My wife has a great story -- she was backpacking around Australia and staying in this tiny youth hostel in the middle of nowhere. She got chatting to this guy, and as always, she said she was from northern England. Turned out he was English too -- and knew the area she was from -- and knew her town... and eventually the last line was "Oh, so it was YOU who broke our garage door at my sister's 18th birthday party!"
Dec 15, 2011, 5:15 pm
#63
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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When my Mom was a child (post-WW2), her family lived in Tangier. When a military ship would come into port, they'd go down to the docks for entertainment, and sometimes there would be bus tours that soldiers and the Americans expats could take.
So my Mom, who must have been 12 or 13, is on a bus tour with a friend & a bunch of servicemen. The guy sitting behind her mentions that he's from Long Island. She says she's originally from Long Island. He mentions his hometown, she says, "That's my hometown." She asks his name, turns out its a cousin she'd either met or didn't recognize because she'd lived in Morocco for much of her childhood.
(50 years later, my Mom randomly met that cousin's daughter for the first time while they were both riding bikes on the Mall in DC.)
So my Mom, who must have been 12 or 13, is on a bus tour with a friend & a bunch of servicemen. The guy sitting behind her mentions that he's from Long Island. She says she's originally from Long Island. He mentions his hometown, she says, "That's my hometown." She asks his name, turns out its a cousin she'd either met or didn't recognize because she'd lived in Morocco for much of her childhood.
(50 years later, my Mom randomly met that cousin's daughter for the first time while they were both riding bikes on the Mall in DC.)
Dec 17, 2011, 3:27 am
#64
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: LAS
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-Ran into a school friend I hadn't seen in over 4 years on the Metro in Paris.
-Changed an LAX-ATL flight day of (SDC) since my aunt was going to be on the same flight and we could carpool to LAX/from ATL. Ended up with an aisle seat in the center section of a 767 with my aunt (PM before DM came out) in the other aisle seat. The middle seat ended up being another school friend I hadn't seen in over 4 years on his way to BWI.
-Ran into another old friend I hadn't seen in 2 years at AMS airport, while on an international MR. Yeah, that was a fun one to explain ...
-Ran into neighbors at HKG airport on our going leg/their return leg. Asked them if they could make sure our Christmas lights turned on properly while we were away.
-Changed an LAX-ATL flight day of (SDC) since my aunt was going to be on the same flight and we could carpool to LAX/from ATL. Ended up with an aisle seat in the center section of a 767 with my aunt (PM before DM came out) in the other aisle seat. The middle seat ended up being another school friend I hadn't seen in over 4 years on his way to BWI.
-Ran into another old friend I hadn't seen in 2 years at AMS airport, while on an international MR. Yeah, that was a fun one to explain ...
-Ran into neighbors at HKG airport on our going leg/their return leg. Asked them if they could make sure our Christmas lights turned on properly while we were away.
Dec 17, 2011, 8:22 am
#65
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Houston
Programs: UA
Posts: 289
Walking around under the Eiffel Tower and I run into some family friends.
While on my way to watch the end of the Tour de France, run into an Australian I had previously met in my dorm in Caen.
Saw someone playing street hockey in a park with a Houston Aeros jersey on. (You don't even seen people with Aero's jersey on outside an actual game in Houston)
While on my way to watch the end of the Tour de France, run into an Australian I had previously met in my dorm in Caen.
Saw someone playing street hockey in a park with a Houston Aeros jersey on. (You don't even seen people with Aero's jersey on outside an actual game in Houston)
Dec 17, 2011, 11:16 am
#66
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: SFO
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At Pisa a few years back, I was taking a picture of the leaning tower when I heard in perfect english, "Would you like me to take a picture of you with the tower in the back ground?" Without turning around as figuring it was a scam, I politely said, "no thank you" when I heard, "goalie, I'd like to take your picture" 
. So I turned around to find a client of mine from a branch office of a bank I managed in SF (and to matters even better they were staying at the same hotel I was in Florence )
. So I turned around to find a client of mine from a branch office of a bank I managed in SF (and to matters even better they were staying at the same hotel I was in Florence )
Dec 18, 2011, 7:20 am
#67
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In Prague with my wife, waiting for a table for dinner. My wife owns a retail store and runs into one of here customers. We have dinner together, ends up they are staying at the same Hilton as us just down the hall and we end up sitting across the aisle from them in BE on the flight home, share the same parking lot shuttle to the same Park and Fly lot.
Dec 18, 2011, 7:34 am
#68
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: STL
Posts: 1,546
Saw a few guys I went to high school on the streets while driving through the French Quarter in New Orleans back in October. Didn't stop to engage them in conversation because:
1. They were d-bags in HS, and they're probably even bigger d-bags when hammered. Didn't care to talk to them then, didn't care to talk to them now.
2. I was listening to the final outs of Game 7 of the World Series on the radio, and listening to the Cardinals win the WS is more important than talking to some morons I knew from HS.
1. They were d-bags in HS, and they're probably even bigger d-bags when hammered. Didn't care to talk to them then, didn't care to talk to them now.
2. I was listening to the final outs of Game 7 of the World Series on the radio, and listening to the Cardinals win the WS is more important than talking to some morons I knew from HS.
Dec 18, 2011, 11:34 am
#69
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Italy
Posts: 218
Traveling from Mumbai to Myanmar I ran into two old friends from Wyoming(long-time guests in my restaurant), trawling the duty free at BKK. What makes it stranger is the they were also going to Myanmar and connecting in RGN to Bagan where I was headed - and we were staying in two hotels right next to each other.
I've also run into another pair of friends from Wyoming(also long-time guests in my restaurant) twice on trains in Italy and France, several years apart.
I've also run into another pair of friends from Wyoming(also long-time guests in my restaurant) twice on trains in Italy and France, several years apart.