Comments on: You Want to Hear Something Totally Crazy?

By: Janie Woods

Janie Woods — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:13:01 +0000

In 1997, I found out that my neighbor in California had deployed with my father in 1951/52/54. We had lived next to him for almost five years. Flash forward to 2005, I move to Maryland and wind up meeting a guy that my neighbor worked for during those same deployments…

By: Queen of Feisty

Queen of Feisty — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:04 +0000

Alright, so long story short… My husband and I attending a wedding years ago, of one of his good collage buddies…attending the same reception was my parents old neighbors (weird twist, they were neighbors twice. Moving only 2 miles to the same street) and good friends. Come to find out that my parents lived in this apartment building, and the neigbor friends lived above them. They baby sat for a little boy who lived across the street from them. They all knew him. That was his wedding I was attending. To weird.

And speaking of FB, I was baffeled at how two of MY friends could talk on each others FB pages. Come to find out my grade school friend and my H.S. friend knew each other from a job they once worked together.

It’s a small world!

By: Gidge

Gidge — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:43:40 +0000

There was a guy I went to high school with, and it became a joke that no matter where we went – if we told someone where we were from – they’d ask us if we knew him.
It was cemented when we were in Europe – told a French Girl where we were from and she said “Oh DO you know Simon B?” and we all about killed ourselves.
It’s a small world AFTER ALL……

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:11:20 +0000

That is crazy! This happened to me on Facebook. I was looking at photos from a friend’s wedding and I’m like “hey, I know that guy that is picture with my friend, the groom.” And then I was like “wait, HOW DO THESE PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER?”

Crazy!

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:32:26 +0000

A few years back (okay like 10) I started dating a guy, someone I met in a bar. Turns out, he was also from Kansas City, was at KU at the same time I was, his dad lives minutes from my dad and his Mom lives in Phoenix, AZ just blocks from my sister. Small world, indeed.

By: Sarah @ This Heavenly Life

Sarah @ This Heavenly Life — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:23:59 +0000

So crazy! I always feel twilight zone-ish when stuff like that happens. In a good way, though, like the universe is smiling at my naivete

By: mistress pink

mistress pink — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:40:43 +0000

Thats so funny and wild. You have to love when things like that happen.

By: the kaiser

the kaiser — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:16:17 +0000

I work with 2 people who were at UCF when we were there. There’s another guy that was at Fullsail at the time and we determined we went to some of the same shows downtown but never met until years later at work.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:47:28 +0000

Years ago I read an article in Scientific American about coincidence. The premise was that we are amazed by coincidence but only because we do not see all the near misses. The high school friend you run into in Cape Town but because you stopped to talk to them you missed your kindergarten teacher coming through security… I have never been able to find the article again but this one comes close http://budurl.com/t82e.

Also those coincidences would be much higher for me as I have travelled a lot and lived abroad for many years. Presumably the people I meet in the airport are in the same social circles.

You are into sports, you recognise the famous sports guy’s name. Without that commonality the spark of recognition wouldn’t have happened.

By: ashley

ashley — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:20:14 +0000

My best neighbor friend during high school ended up being freshman roomates with a girl I was actually in high school with. I saw them as friends on FB and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how they knew each other since I couldn’t remember them knowing each other when we were kids. Small world…