It's a small world!

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Dont you ever get that feeling (title)?! Me and a few mates went on holiday back in september to Malia for a week! We stayed in a nice little hotel tucked away just behind the main strip of bars etc and there was an english bar man who worked at the hotel bar who we always chatted with while having a few beverages before going out at night! Anyways last week it was my mates 21st birthday and he randomly decided he wanted us all to go to Brystol for the weekend! We get there go out at night to a random bar and the english bar man (Tom) from Malia is working!! Spooky...

What are your "It's a small world" storys?
 
Not exactly long distance, but the first day i arrived in Edinburgh for a break i ran into my neighbours who where there for the day cause their connecting flight was delayed. Just seemed a coincidence at the time :)
 
Last year a friend of mine introduced me to a guy called Oli in a pub. Oli said he was going to invite his friends Mike and Lisa to said pub, and Lisa turned out to be the same girl I knew for a while seven years ago. :eek:
 
I love these moments :) Had quite a few of them in the past, my favourite was one on my gap year, sitting in a bar on the coast of Cambodia. Started chatting to the woman who was sat next to me, asked where she was from, she said "Oh, you wouldn't have heard of it, little town called Saffron Walden" - that being where I'd grown up for 18 years. Turns out she was my mate's boss from a shop in town, just seemed a random person to meet 6000 miles away with a mutual friend from a little market town in essex :)
 
Stopped at the motorway services, driving from London to Newcastle, and driving from Newcastle down to London were my Mums next door neighbours from when she was little sitting on the next table. :)

Got on the flight home in Florida, bumped into my Aunt's brother with family. :)

My sister went on holiday somewhere in Spain, to walk into the first bar and bump into 3 of our cousins. :)

And a smaller one is on FB I've found so so many of my friends know other friends that none of us realised, some are really random that I'd never have put together but others make sense! :p
 
Left Yorkshire for the Midlands when I was 12. Went to Denmark on holiday when I was 14. Met a friend I used to know from Yorkshire on a rollercoaster ride at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.
 
Some kid a year or two below from my old school, was sat a few tables away at i17, used "TheDon" as fas as I could gather which was a similar nickname I had just stopped using. :p
 
When I went to Indonesia last summer, I knew nobody that I was going with, but by chance I was sitting next to someone else going every flight stage of the trip (5 flights). That's not necessarily all that surprising, as we were all going to the same place.

However, about a week after I got back I went with my family to Skipton and we went into one of the pubs. One of the guys was just sat there with a beer. Was really weird at the time.
 
I went to work in Malta the other week, the deck foreman on the vessel we were on was from my town and friends with my cousin.

Was weird and quite funny as we then proceded to go out on the beer at the end of the job :D

KaHn
 
A girl that was in the same small snowboarding group as me when on holiday walked past the shop I worked at a week after I arrived home.
 
I think its even weirder to think about all the times you *almost* met someone. By that I mean its perfectly possible that someone you know was in the same town as you, at the same time but they chose to walk down an adjacent street. If you'd met you'd start a thread about how its a small world but these near misses must happen more frequently.
 
There was a girl i really fancied when i was living in Kenya! I moved back to the UK. A few years later i met her on a chance visit to London in a bar! Needless to say we had a good time!

My Coach at work used to live a few doors down on the same road when i lived in Kenya. I have been in her house but after she moved out!
 
wen we were kids we got friendly with some lads who lived a few hours away at our hotel for 2 weeks, the year later we turned around in queue at airport and they were behind us getting on same flight as us to same resort somewhere else!
That year there was also someone who lived a few hours away who knew someone I went to school with the year before whos family had moved.

2Years ago in tenerife there was some guys working outside a bar trying to get people to go in that bar, then 6months later we bumped into one on a saturday night at our SU.

Its not really THAT wierd because its bound to happen a few times in your life with the sheer amount of people you get chummy with.
 
I live in a town of like 30k people i'd say. Smallish commuter town with more pubs than shops (25 :)).

Every holiday i've been on in my adult life, i've seen someone i know from the town be it spain, corfu, western supermare.

Though the funniest is my two mates. Every holiday they've been on, they see Disco Dave, dancing away. It's a small world because chances are, i have the same ideas as others in my town.
 
I bumped into one of my best mates in Olu Deniz in Turkey a few years ago. A quiet little resort tucked away on the the coast.
 
Went to the states for a work program in Summer 2005, first night was a hostel stay on Amsterdam Avenue in NYC, got off the coach that came from the airport, and there standing outside was a guy I knew from my uni course!! Half way through that summer I talk a walking tour in Chicago and I met a women who I recognised which worked in a restaurant I frequent.
 
A rather tenuous connection to this thread but a bit interesting anyway.

I ordered a wireless (ugh) card from ocuk a few weeks ago, which I had delivered to work. I work in a building that's quite large and houses a few companies, all with separate receptions. What I didn't realise (but probably should have) is that when I entered the 'company name' field in the delivery address, that wouldn't actually get added to the address on the front of the package. So the card never arrived, and as soon as I realised the mistake I just went and bought another one as I needed it fairly quickly, not expecting to ever receive the original.

I got a phone call today and it turns out the office next door to mine has someone there called Matt Croucher (my name is Matt Crouch), so he ended up with the parcel and opened it, before working out it wasn't actually his :D
So now I have three wireless cards. Not sure what to do with them.

Other work related coincidences:
found out at christmas that my cousin who works on the other side of london in a completely unrelated industry has actually been to the office I work in, to visit the company that used to be part of ours (before I worked there).

I live in a room that by coincidence was previously occupied by someone who works in the same office as me. Only found out when I turned up for a viewing. This is Guildford while the company is a few miles away in woking.

The first two rooms I viewed in Guildford when I first started are now occupied by people who I met on my first day.
 
heres a long but good one :)

Back in 1999, i was a worker in San Antonio in Ibiza at a bar called Act II near KFC (for those who might know it), i was from Manchester at the time, anyway a chef at the bar next door (was called Unity at the time) had just finished an all night shift and had crashed out on a chair, we were sat there in the morning drinking a few beers after work (we worked nights too), anyway, we decided to go haywire on this poor chef and stuck all kinds of foodstuffs in random places on his body, chips inbetween each of his fingers and toes, whipped cream on his head (he was bald) can of redbull resting on his arm and a mop in the other, then preceded to wrap him completely in toilet roll. Anywaywe were in stitches and it's probably one of the best memories i have of Ibiza :D

Anyway, after i returned to Manchester i moved up here to Middlesbrough (eugh) and four years later i was working in a pub up here as a chef when we employed a chef to work with us, anyway we got chatting and ended up on the subject of Ibiza, then i told him the above story and i could see him smirking only for him to tell me that it was him that we had done it to, i was absolutely gobsmacked, the coincidence was staggering, he was from London and i was from Manchester and we both ended up working in the same pub in Middlesbrough.
 
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