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You know, those things that make you exclaim, "Wow, it's a small world!"
Actually my story doesn't even quite fit into this concept but it was a strange coincidence. Last year when I was in London I actually ran into a friend of mine from school. I was walking down the street out of EasyEverything, and suddenly there he was walking in the opposite direction. I thought that it must just be someone who looked awfully like him at first. So I whispered his name at him and he jumped about three feet. It was strange... Neither of us knew the other would be in London, and to just run into him on some random street seemed incredibly odd.
Writing it down, it doesn't seem so odd...
But at the time it was just too weird for me to comprehend. I mean, I don't know that many people in the first place, even fewer that I'd consider friends, and to run into one of them across the ocean was just bizarre.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. When I visited London in 2000 I bet myself I'd run into someone I knew there. So logically I was in line with Jane to catch a performance at the new Globe and I ran into someone I knew from grad school...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Since school, I've only bumped into one ex-schoolmate. And I've bumped into him twice. Once in a gay club in Edinburgh, when he was in bondage gear. A few years later in London (Soho). He was wearing office gear that time. I was probably wearing the exact same thing both times. These locations aren't on different continents, I know. But I do expect to meet him again someday, wherever I'm going to be.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

this happens quite a bit in my life,to varying degrees of oddness.
often though, it is someone-who-knows-someone, the kind of thing you find out when sitting somewhere waiting for something and get talking to your equally bored neighbour.
my nanna had a knack for this. no matter where i went with her when a child, she would find someone she knew, or was related to.
the old 6 degrees thing bla bla bla.
i saw someone i knew from 'elsewhere long ago', in an airport. but as we were both separately terribly upset at the time i let him be.

― donna (donna), Sunday, 3 November 2002 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I've mentioned bumping into my pal Grant Morrison in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris before, but had a smaller example last night! I was out with colleagues from work on Friday, among them one guy called Chris who is among the few people who are close to friends at work. He lives in North-West London, around Queen's Park way. I live in East London, but was meeting my girlfriend last night outside Angel tube station. I'd only been waiting a moment when Chris showed up - he was meeting a pal there at the same time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No matter where I go, I never run into anyone I know

― luna.c (luna.c), Monday, 4 November 2002 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Has this been covered by ILX yet?

http://smallworld.columbia.edu

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Yesterday I found myself in line for a movie just in front of a guy who was on the crew for my student film in NYC. And he's originally from Paris. And I from London. And now we bumped into each other 4 years later in line for a movie in San Francisco. It did my head in.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a travellin' man, I used to run into people all over the place. Like I'd be walking down Rue St-Laurent in Mtl and there would be the sister of my friend Scott, or some girl I kissed in Edmonton 6 years earlier!
Now that I'm sedimentary, I make it a point not to see people I know.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I ran into two friends from grade school in a bar in Zermatt, Switzerland once.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

kennedy's secretary was named lincoln, and lincoln fucked marilyn monroe

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Abe Lincoln IS Timecop!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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