Family & Relationships It's a Small World

[JimDocker]

A couple that I am really good friends with, (I introduced them) were living and working in Shangai for a few years. My mother and father in law who live here near Fremantle were going to China on a tour so I suggested that they should pop in and say hello when they got to Shangai.

They did the tour for 2 weeks all over China and struck up a friendship with 2 ladies from England, going out for meals with them etc.... As the tour came to an end and they were approaching Shangai, my in laws told the ladies when they get to Shangai, they were going to catch up with some friends and it turned out that the 2 ladies were aunties of my friend and they were catching up with him too. They all went out for a meal when they arrived in Shangai. How surprised my mate must have been to see them all rock up together.

 

[Gabbie]

Just remembered another moment.

Was at a fashion parade lunch with friends a couple of years ago. Got talking to a couple of other women at our table and one of the older onesmentioned she came from so and so. I mentioned my grandparents lived there. She asked who they were and she nearly fell off her chair because her reply was "OMG, I boarded with them when I was first married as we didn't have much money etc etc" and asked me which one of their 6 kids did I belong to - told her my mum's name and she asked all about her. First thing I did when I got home was call mum and pass on this woman's details. Mum was quite chuffed as this all happened when she was a teenager and mum passed away this year aged 79. Do the math.

 

[ToroHombre]

Once, I bumped into a girl from my year at school at an icecream kiosk in a small beachside town in New Zealand, by complete fluke.

Last year on Schoolies, me and my mates made friends with a bunch of guys/girls from Ballarat who were staying next to us. This year at uni I became mates with the brother of one of the girls. It was a real shock when I discovered they were related!

 

[matty p]

Went on a trip with the family to Melbourne a few years ago. We stop over in Ballarat and go to Sovereign Hill where we bump into a workmate of my Dad and his own family. I'd never met this family in Adelaide before. Anyway, as the trip goes on, it seems that everywhere we go, we see this family. We drive past them on the outskirts of Melbourne, and then we bump into them at the Aus Open and have a chat.

Finally, I'm standing upstairs at Chadstone shopping centre and when I look down, who do I see standing below but the same family! By this stage it was a running joke between the families and I quickly ring my own family who can't believe it. The funny thing is we returned to Adelaide the next day and I've never seen this family since (which is amazing by Adelaide standards). So I've lived here 24 years and never seen them, yet ran into them 4 times in the space of 5 days in Victoria.

 

[Malibu#27]

Did you all go out for pizza afterward?

When I was living in Texas I befriended an old guy named Glen who also happened to be from Kansas City. I lamented that the Texans didn't know how to barbeque (they think they can but they're wrong) and that there was no good BBQ to be had for a KC ex-pat. Glen showed me an incredible way to grill up a BBQ burger. Best burger in the world. I continued to make them according to his recipe & methods even to this day. Eventually Glen died and I honor his memory every time I light a grill. Awesome guy he was.

So then, up in the future from there and now back safely in Kansas City, I was forced into going to one of those stupid family out-gathering things with a girlfriend. I insisted that I would do the burgers along with any and all grilling. At the gathering whilst working the grill, several people said that my burgers couldn't possibly be better than the Uncle Glen burger recipe they typically used (catching on?) After I heard this several times I said, "Mine are Glen burgers too, but they are Glen Stanford burgers." Yes, that was their Uncle Glen, one and the same.

I eventually ditched that girlfriend, but I got this story out of it.

Peace,

And the recipe for said burgers ???????

 

[footballfreak]

Only in perth

 

[Glenno23]

Having come from different countries and falling in love at work, Alex and Donna Voutsinas always believed fate played a hand in them getting together.

But now the pair have discovered their destiny could have perhaps been determined when they were small children.





Days before their wedding 20 years later, Mr Voutsinas was looking through his fiancée's childhood photos and was shocked to recognise his father in the background of a family snap at Disney World in Florida as his future wife, then aged five, posed in the foreground.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...over-paths-crossed-Disney-World-toddlers.html

Amazing story!

 

[PP34]

My parents have so many of these moments.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

There was this dodgy guy I used to play cricket with in metro WA.

Me and 8 of my mates, all of which knew him, were walking through Vancouver when we run into him in a shop. Turns out the f*ckers wife won lotto and he was living off her winnings.

 

[Cruyff14]

Was coming home from Europe in 2012 and as I got on the plane and sat down I heard a voice that I knew I recognised. It was my neighbour, sitting directly behind me, couldn't believe it.

Did a walking tour in Berlin last year and there was a couple who were Aussies, they were also on the same flight home as me.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Ten years ago I was sitting in the lounge in a backpackers in Oxford watching TV and thinking to myself "gee the girl sitting in that other chair looks just like my ex-girlfriend from the back". Then the show finished, she turned around and it was my ex-girlfriend. Staying in the same hostel as me, on the other side of the world.

Then when I got back to London I went on a Contiki trip. A couple of other people from Perth were on the trip, including one girl who went to my high school and was two years behind me, in my brother's year.

 

[JD11]

I was going through customs to board a flight to Heathrow from JFK, saw a girl I dated briefly during uni, but had been friends with since high school. When I started at uni I had no idea she was studying the same course I'd just been accepted into (life was more surprising without FaceBook, she was 2 years ahead of me at uni, but same year and all same classes in Year 12 of high school). As she was standing slightly ahead in the cue and was a very distinctive looking girl and I remember remarking to my self "hehe that looks kind of like (girls name)".

Took another couple of minutes for my brain to actually process that it could actually be her.

We'd always been close but just kinda drifted away over the years after she finished uni and we stopped dating because she was moving to Sydney. Was utterly stunned she was getting on the same flight at such an early time on the other side of the planet.

No mile-high unfortunately but we hit off an old flame and dated for another year before our careers got in the way.

 

[Gough]

I was standing in front of Boots on Maidenhead High Street one day and my year ten English teacher tapped me on the shoulder. Turned out her daughter lived in Pinkney's Green just up the road.

 

[JuddsABlue]

My girlfriend of many yaers and her family had been life long friends with some people in my family. We didnt know until we all showed up at my grandfathers funeral

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Went to uni with this bloke, except he was a year below me. Nice guy.

I rock up at a new job and he's doing some contract work for the company as an exercise physiologist.

Line up at RHB at footy, and he's my opponent.

I go back to uni and do a diploma of education, and on my teaching prac I rock up and he's doing relief work for the same school.

Time passes until one day Im catching a flight from Dubai to Rome and he's sitting in the next row.

The same year, I turn up to my new tennis club and he's the club captain.

Weird how some people follow you round for life.

 

[Gough]

I occasionally catch up with my old school history teacher who has now retired. He says that one of occupational hazards of being a teacher all your life and coming into contact with literally thousands of kids, is that it's hard to go anywhere in the world without running into an old student.

 

[Quivorir]

Hmm. I think I have ran into one teacher out in the wild since leaving school. Think thats not a bad effort.

 

[MCE]

Five years ago my whole family went across to Koh Samui in Thailand for my brother's wedding. At the place where my wife and I stayed there was another Australian couple who we kept running into around the place, eg. see them in the main street, when we're swimming etc. Not so unsusual since we were staying at the same resort. The day after the wedding my wife and I flew to Bangkok for a couple of days. On the second night we're having a look around, go down some stairs to catch the subway and who do we see waiting for the same train?!?! Really odd.

You always get "small world" stories in Adelaide but one of my good mates married the daughter of my uncles' best friend (my uncle is also her godfather), having met completely independently of me. Turns out his wife and I were occasionally at the same social gatherings when we were very young. We figured out it makes my mate my god-cousin-in-law.

 

[JUBJUB]

Years ago at my nieces 2nd or 3rd birthday party at my sisters house I got chatting about football with one of her work colleagues and he mentioned a Geelong footy messageboard he regularly posts on.He said the name and I said I post on that.Asked him who he was on it.Turned out to be a guy who I often replied to and he often replied to my posts.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Having come from different countries and falling in love at work, Alex and Donna Voutsinas always believed fate played a hand in them getting together.

But now the pair have discovered their destiny could have perhaps been determined when they were small children.

Days before their wedding 20 years later, Mr Voutsinas was looking through his fiancée's childhood photos and was shocked to recognise his father in the background of a family snap at Disney World in Florida as his future wife, then aged five, posed in the foreground.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...over-paths-crossed-Disney-World-toddlers.html

Amazing story!

I remember about 11 years ago two 19-20yo girls from New York City discovered they were twins because at house parties/university strangers would think they were the other one.