Your "It's a small, small world" stories....

[vi edit]

My wife and I are purchasing a new home in Omaha that is still in the construction process. Yesterday we got up at 4:45 and drove the 4 hours over there to pick out the flooring, tile, and countertops we want. While at the interiors store, there was another couple picking out flooring.

Fast forward two hours. We go to the sales office to fill out some paperwork on our home and as we are there the couple at the interiors store walk in to fill out paperwork on their home that is on the same street as us. Ok not that big of a coincidence.

Fast forward another two hours. We are in Nebraska Furniture Mart, argueably one of the largest furniture stores in the midwest. This thing encompasses an entire city block.

My wife and I are looking at living room sets and find one we really like. We're sitting in the couch just relaxing waiting for the salesman to finish up the paperwork for another couple buying a furniture set.

The couple buying the set list their street address...it's the house right next to us. In a city a little shy of 1,000,000 people, we decide to plop down right next to our future next door neighbors. What are the odds of that?

Freaky to say the least. But cool. It's a small small world.

 

[Fenixgoon]

haha cool story!

 

[se7en]

Best I have is:

Dated a grrl in HS bout a year the we broke up b/c my best friend at that time really liked her and I was cheating anyway. So they dated for several years but ended up breaking up too. I moved 2 states away a little after that and about 6 years went by. Was in clinic one day and took a patient to get their blood drawn and who was drawing blood in our clinic but her!!She ended up going to the school associated with the hospital I work in.. ..ended up dating again and have been ever since.. ..

 

[cavemanmoron]

I drove to Minnesota a few years ago,

while there I saw 5 people I knew,from near where I live.


I had a cousin die a couple years ago,and the day after the funeral was telling,
a co-worker at coffe break about the funeral;at the next table was a man I had seen
at the cafeteria before,but did not know.

Turns out he was related,to my cousin,on his Fathers side,I am on the Mothers side.
He had been at the same funeral,and it was so crowded,we did not see each other.

 

[anno]

we got married in the church I grew up attending.. a methodist church in virginia. I don't know if it's still the case, and I don't know if it was just a virginia thing.. but in virginia, in the 60's and 70's at least, methodist churches didn't keep pastors very long.. they rotated every couple years, usually every 2 years for associate pastors and every 4 years for the main one. when we got married, I hadn't been living in that city for some years, so I didn't really know the pastor that was going to marry us but that was ok.

then something came up and he needed to be away that weekend, so they got another pastor.. a retired one that was on staff as pastor emeritus, to perform the ceremony and that actually suited me pretty well, because this guy was the first pastor I actually remembered.. he was at that church when I was 6-8ish, and I thought that was cooler, someone I actually knew, doing the job, so I was kind of tickled.

my husband's parents got married in a civil ceremony, his dad is catholic and his mom is not so they couldn't agree on a church. so they got married in a civil ceremony in alexandria, which was kind of coincidental because they worked in DC and lived in maryland but anyway, they got married in virginia by just some random guy who was doing the job that day, and it was the same guy, ted landis, who was the first pastor I remember and the guy that was going to marry us, 30 years and several hundred miles later.

and then, when it came time to have our second child baptised, we went home again to have it done in that church, at thanksgiving when all my family would be around, and again, whoever was the main pastor at that time had to be out of town, and again, it was ted landis who was called to step up and do the job. it was really cool, he gave a brief talk about how cool.. how rare.. how amazing it was for a methodist pastor to have the opportunity to play such an important role in the lives of 3 generations of the same family, over such a long period of time.. 38 years by then, and what a treat it was for him. it was a treat for me too. a purely coincidental treat. and kinda peculiar I guess, since I was the virginia methodist, that it was actually my husband's family he was so intricately wound up in.

 

[loup garou]

Before I moved to NYC, I came up to visit my gf for New Years. One of her friends was having a party at a bar in SoHo. We know absolutely no one at the party, save 2 of her friends...so I'm bored, looking around and see this one tall guy who sticks up about a foot above the crowd. Looking at him, I notice he's staring at me too. I think, hmm...this guy's weird, I hope he's not going to hit on me. Then I realize, hey that's one of my best friends from Tulane who had moved to Baltimore! It turns out he was now dating a girl from San Diego who had come to Baltimore for the holidays and they had then driven up to NYC for the party. The girl used to date one of the other hosts. We ended up having a great time!

 

[Kalvin00]

Not from me, but my sister.

She graduated a few years ago from high school here in Northern California. She moved to North Carolina since her husband was stationed there, and when she was at..uh, (I can't remember exactly where, maybe a party or something), when she saw someone who looked familiar. She asked, and sure enough, she had graduated in the same class

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: se7en
Best I have is:

Dated a grrl in HS bout a year the we broke up b/c my best friend at that time really liked her and I was cheating anyway. So they dated for several years but ended up breaking up too. I moved 2 states away a little after that and about 6 years went by. Was in clinic one day and took a patient to get their blood drawn and who was drawing blood in our clinic but her!!She ended up going to the school associated with the hospital I work in.. ..ended up dating again and have been ever since.. ..

What a great story! You cheated on her, dumped her and now she took you back! Warms my heart!

 

[axelfox]

I was at this theme park one time in CA, and we went on this ride. It had all of these kids from different countries singing something about "It's a small world."

 

[skyking]

1: moved across state, go into bank that is 1 block from house, and the teller is my neighbor where I grew up, about 1 block away back home.
2: just last week, we find out that the neighbors across the street we do projects with share our anniversary.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Not from me, but my sister.

She graduated a few years ago from high school here in Northern California. She moved to North Carolina since her husband was stationed there, and when she was at..uh, (I can't remember exactly where, maybe a party or something), when she saw someone who looked familiar. She asked, and sure enough, she had graduated in the same class

You and I are from the same hometown - who's your sister and who did she run into? I might know them.