IPeaFreely
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Post by IPeaFreely on Jul 20, 2015 12:37:03 GMT
My husband and I had Just finished our 17 day trip to France and we are sitting in Charles DeGaulle airport waiting for our flight. My husband got up to check something out and someone says his name. We both look at THE SEAT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM (NOT ACROSS THE WAY OR DOWN THE ROW OR OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE---RIGHT. NEXT. TO. WHERE. HE. WAS. SITTING.).
We are approximately 6,000 miles from home and we are sitting right next to our next door neighbor. Not the neighbor down the street or someone we knew w from home but the guy next door.
it was almost too unbelievable to be true. Granted he is a pilot, but a private pilot and is rarely in the regular terminal. He had flown a plane to Geneva, Italy, and about 3 other places before the plane had mechanical trouble. He had to rent a car and drive for hours, take a train overnight, etc etc etc to get to the airport and sit right next to us in the terminal.
Then we get to Los angeles and there is water coming from the sky. As in RAIN. Super freaky. In July its unheard of. Then while we are waiting at the curb(with our neighbor) there is a flash of light and I start looking around because I thought no maybe a celebrity is coming. And then I hear the biggest, loudest clap of thunder I have heard in about 25 years. Thunder and lightening in SoCal. Unbelievable!
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 20, 2015 12:37:59 GMT
That is an amazing coincidence!
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Post by anonrefugee on Jul 20, 2015 12:40:01 GMT
Fun story! Do you feel lucky enough to buy lottery tickets?
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marimoose
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Post by marimoose on Jul 20, 2015 12:41:31 GMT
Agreed, amazing coincidence.
As for that rain, my brother is an avid baseball watcher and had a game on as we spoke over the phone and he yells into the phone, "NO WAY!! They just had a rain delay in San Diego". I guess that never happens. Hey, enjoy that rain because I know you guys need it desperately.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jul 20, 2015 12:46:27 GMT
We once went camping in France and heard someone calling to us. It was a neighbour. Fortunately we got on well and the children were all friends, so a good time was had by all. It could have gone the other way!
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scrappert
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Post by scrappert on Jul 20, 2015 12:55:33 GMT
Great story! I second buying a lottery ticket! My sister lives in San Diego, so I know it hardly rains let alone lightning and thunder! We grew up in the Midwest, so she know what that stuff is. She cracks up when it does start to "rain" (aka sprinkle)!
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Post by mommaho on Jul 20, 2015 12:57:54 GMT
I've run into supervisors twice while on vacation - one left an image I'll never forget. A speedo with a beer belly - how do you take someone serious after that!
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gloryjoy
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Post by gloryjoy on Jul 20, 2015 13:08:06 GMT
Those are crazy odds!
We once went to Vegas and got on the airplane, I sat in an aisle seat, my husband in the aisle seat across from me. The husband leans over me and say's to my husband "Hello". Turns out they know each other thru work, although they don't work at the same place.
Seems like we can't go anywhere without him running into someone he knows.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 20, 2015 13:08:25 GMT
When I was an exchange student in France in high school, I met another boy from my state while sightseeing one day. Chatted briefly about the coincidence and thought no more of it. Two years later while registering for my sophomore year of college, I meet a boy in line and we chatted... he ended up calling me for a date. Several dates later, we figured out that he was the same boy I talked to in France two years earlier! We ended up dating for three years.
I love little "small world" coincidences like that!
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Post by imkat on Jul 20, 2015 13:10:31 GMT
When I was a student travelling through Europe, I ran into different people from high school and college on three separate times/locations. I was surprised at the time, but I guess we were all a similar demographic having similar experiences.
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Post by ingrid6 on Jul 20, 2015 13:22:52 GMT
Great story and such a fun coincidence! When I was in my 20's I was at an amusement park 3 hours from home. A friend and I got off of the roller coaster and ran to get back in line and ended up right behind my brother who lived 6 hours from the park. Did a double take followed by 'what are you doing here???" Another time we were hiking in Arizona and bumped into my son-in-laws sister. We were hiking up and she was headed down.
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TXMary
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Post by TXMary on Jul 20, 2015 13:26:06 GMT
Right after we bought our place on the beach, we found out our neighbor here at home that lives two doors down from us had just bought a place about a mile from us down there. Neither of us knew the other were buying. We can't go anywhere without running into someone my DH knows. It really is a small, small world.
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TankTop
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Post by TankTop on Jul 20, 2015 13:31:36 GMT
That is so crazy!
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Post by Woobster on Jul 20, 2015 13:33:27 GMT
This is actually pretty common if you work in aviation. DH and I run into someone from work almost every time we go on vacation. We all use the same hotels because we get a fantastic corporate discount. We get used to scanning hotel lobbies looking for familiar faces.
Being overseas would really be a trip, though... That is so funny!!
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Post by mom on Jul 20, 2015 13:33:42 GMT
That is crazy! I would be buying some lottery tickets!
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 20, 2015 14:11:26 GMT
Oh my, that is pretty amazing.
We flew back from France on July 14. When we were collecting our bags in Seattle, DH thought he saw the goalie from his soccer team at baggage claim. He tried to discreetly call his name to see if he would turn around but he didn't. DH assumed he was mistaken.
The next day DH has a game and tells the goalie. Turns out it was him. He was sitting in row 13, seat j. We were originally in row 12, seats j and h, but were bumped to business class.
It can be such a small world!
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 20, 2015 14:32:59 GMT
My family lives on the west coast but my brother and I were visiting NYC and as we were walking down some street and we heard someone yelling my brother's name. It was a friend of his from HS he had lost contact with during college. NYC is crazy big and we weren't at any of the tourist places or anything, just walking around on kind of a back road, not a lot of foot traffic or even cars/taxis. So weird to be on the opposite coast of where you live and in such a huge place and hear someone screaming his name from across the street. I have seen someone I know at DL 5 of the 7 times I have been there. When I was 13 it was a classmate, as an adult it was an ex once and other times they were former students.
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Post by Merge on Jul 20, 2015 14:52:15 GMT
That seems to happen to us a lot - running into people we know while on vacation. Small world!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 15:06:34 GMT
That's wild!! How was your trip? I remember you were very excited to leave.
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Peamac
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Post by Peamac on Jul 20, 2015 15:15:37 GMT
That is too funny! DH and I were just on a cruise for our 25th anniversary and while in the elevator, another couple walked in. The husband looked at DH and said, "Well my goodness- look who it is! (DH) from (church) in (former town)!" Yep, he was someone that went to our previous church (5 years ago). The situation 5 years ago didn't end well b/c he didn't like DH's marriage counselling he had asked for ("stop seeing other woman and go back to your wife"). I wouldn't have recognized him in the elevator b/c he had a hat on and had shaved his beard so he looked a lot younger. Also the woman with him was not the wife he had 5 years ago. Or the other woman from 5 years ago. He seemed friendly enough in the elevator, though. 4,000+ people on the ship and we run into someone we know!
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Post by perumbula on Jul 20, 2015 15:31:33 GMT
I love stories like that. A couple of years ago on our way to the coast we stopped for lunch in a tiny little town in Oregon. In line behind us at the restaurant is a family from church. They were coming back from the same coast town we were headed to.
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Post by annabella on Jul 20, 2015 15:34:55 GMT
Wow that's crazy! Do you have any pics to share?
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Post by grate on Jul 20, 2015 15:50:52 GMT
it is a wonderfully small world!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 15:51:53 GMT
I love stories like that, too!
Twenty years ago I was sitting in the play area of the local mall with my then 1-year-old daughter. I heard my maiden name called out, and it was a good friend from high school whom I had lost touch with and hadn't seen since HS graduation (in a different state.) She totally recognized me 15 years later in such an unexpected place! Turns out she had just moved to the town next to mine a few weeks before, and had a 1-year-old daughter. We've all been friends ever since -- we're having lunch Thursday. I'm so glad we ran into each other!
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Post by Nicole in TX on Jul 20, 2015 15:57:13 GMT
When we first moved to this area we rented a townhouse. We shared a wall with a NOISY family. It was time to buy and we finally found a single family home we liked. Guess who bought the house RIGHT next door? For the record, they make much better neighbors when you are not sharing a wall with them.
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Post by lesley on Jul 20, 2015 16:15:33 GMT
I love stories like this too. My friends went to Canada a couple of years ago, and they went hiking in the Rockies. At the top of a particular peak, they were greeted by the head teacher at their daughter's school. Over 4000 miles from home, and it was in a fairly remote spot too!
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Post by ilikepink on Jul 20, 2015 16:37:55 GMT
This happened to us a few times--NJ used to (maybe they still do?) have teacher's convention in November - and it was a great time for a short vacation. One time we went to WDW, and at lunch realized that friends/neighbors were at the next table having lunch. Another year we went to Williamsburg--and to the horror of my boys--ran into two teachers from their school.
Another year, my XDH had planned for a year a surprise WDW trip for the day after Christmas. My BFF knew about the trip, but not her boys. Her Christmas was spent back home with family and her youngest son's godmother surprised him with a trip to WDW. She of course said, look for Mrs. B and her boys. I knew nothing about that trip for her son. So, there we are, walking in the Studios New Years Day, and one of my boys said - hey mom - there's Mrs. S's son! I was very confused, but once I realized who he was with, I understood. Millions of people the those parks that day, and we saw each other!
It is a small world.
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Post by worrywart on Jul 20, 2015 18:15:52 GMT
Not quite as amazing as your story but my parents were far from home on top of a mountain in Tennessee (scenic overlook) and heard their names and it was someone from their church!!
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 20, 2015 18:19:35 GMT
Small world.
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Post by stittsygirl on Jul 20, 2015 18:42:52 GMT
My grandmother was quite the traveller after she retired, and once took a nice trip to Sweden, where she stayed in the home of the president of the Mormon mission there. One night she had dinner with the president and his family with two young Mormon missionaries present. One missionary, a Swede, told her before his conversion he was a punk rocker - mohawk, piercings and chains everywhere. He was also a baker and cake decorator. She found that interesting and told me that story when I was called to serve as a Mormon missionary in Sweden. She had often wondered what had become of him. So it's about eight months later, and I'm in Sweden, having dinner with the leader of the small Mormon congregation in our area and his young family. He starts telling us his conversion story, and how he had been a punk rocker with a mohawk and piercings and chains. I thought that was too coincidental, so I told him about my grandmother who had told me a similar story about a missionary she had met there ten years ago. He remembered her! He was like "yeah, we talked about cakes" . So then later, I'm at a Burger King in Stockholm with my missionary companion (we would occasionally splurge on an American treat). The man behind us in line, an American, starts talking to us, asking us where we're from and how we are liking Sweden and our missions. Turns out he's my same grandmother's next-door neighbor in Utah, currently in Sweden on some business. It was so weird, but kind of cool too. My grandmother was tickled that he had run into us when he returned home and told her.
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