It's a small world...

[alecstilleyedye]

i used to manage aldi's website (worked for an ad agency who had the account). naturally i used to promote the cycling events on here, but in 2009 i got made redundant.

a month later i was in an aldi store and there was a poster up using a quote of mine from this very forum to promote their cycling gear…

 

[Big Nick]

Mate of mine joined the Met Police years ago, last time I was in London he attended an incident I had witnessed

Chances the attending officer would be the only person I know in that Force being around 31000-1 !!

 

[TVC]

Did I ever mention that I was related to Margaret Thatcher and John Major?

You're dead to me now.

 

[MacB]

My Mum once bumped into the kid that had lived across the road from us on a train back from London. He was all grown up, in the Met CID and had a prisoner handcuffed to him. She said it was bizarre, he chatted away as if the other guy wasn't there, though the prisoner did say good bye to my Mum when they got off the train.

 

[noodle]

I've had a peculiar moment when (not biking related) chatting to someone on a water and he quoted me without realising it was me he was quoting. Same chap carried on and then claimed to know the person he was talking about quite well, this being me.
I'd never met him but it's not often you can make someone goggle. He did when I introduced myself properly as I was leaving

My wife thinks I'm part of some weird scene/cult as I am able to be in a place as far removed from our normalcy as is reasonably practicable to be, then I bump into someone I know.
Best yet was a chap in Thurso I worked with on some conservation projects then on the same holiday a lass from the same company in mevagissy

 

[Keith Oates]

Last evening I went to the wedding reception of my secretary and I ended up sitting next to a guy who I had last seen 12 years ago in the far north of China !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Freds Dad]

A few years ago on New Year's Day I was sat in the hotel bar at the Reebok stadium on a match day. A chap asked us if he could sit in the only spare seat at our table and we got chatting.
It was his first trip back to Bolton since leaving 30 years ago and we talked about the area and how it had changed. He mentioned that he was going to a certain pub to surprise someone that night as he had arranged through her friends for her to be there though she didn't know of his trip.
After he described her and explained how he knew her it transpired he was meeting my sister!

 

[Alex H]

When I was in the RAF, I was posted from Leuchars to Gutersloh, so had to go to the camp dentist for a checkup (regulations for any posting 'abroad'). The appointment was in the morning and the dentist took some X-rays and told me to come back in the afternoon for the results. The first thing he said to me on my return was "You don't recognise me do you? - Have a look on the door". The plate on the door gave his name - a schoolfriend I hadn't seen for 10 years!

 

[vernon]

A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink.
"Why of course," comes the reply.
The first man then asks: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Ireland," replies the second man.
The first man responds: "You don't say, I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of Course," replies the second man.
Curious, the first man then asks: "Where in Ireland are you from?"
"Dublin," comes the reply.
"I can't believe it," says the first man. "I'm from Dublin too! Let's have another drink to Dublin."
"Of course," replies the second man.
Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks: "What school did you go to?"
"Saint Mary's," replies the second man. "I graduated in '65."
"This is unbelievable!," the first man says. "I went to Saint Mary's and I graduated in '65, too!"
About that time in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar.
"What's been going on?," he asks the barman.
"Nothing much," replies the barman. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Delivering something to a woman in a small village in west Wales last year we got talking about where we came from as it was obvious we were both from the southeast. Narrowing our home areas down a bit at a time (London, east London, etc) it turned out that her parents were my long time next door neighbours when I was growing up in Forest Gate, Newham. She was ten years older than me and had moved out to get married just before we took up residence but her mum and dad were lovely people with who we got on well. In fact my over-riding memory of her dad was sitting in his kitchen one Saturday while he helped me replace a bent wheel spindle on my first ever adult bike.

He was also the person who came over and told me my own father was dead as I got out of the car following a call to my work to come home as there'd been an accident.

 

[Brains]

Out on a bit drink in Hong Kong with a few work colleagues as the bar was closing and emptying I said I'd get in a final round, my colleagues all said I would not be served as they were obviously packing up. I walked up to the manager behind the bar, a lady in her early 30's, had a little chat, got served, took drinks back.
My colleagues were amazed.

I had taken one look at her, and recognised her as the much younger sister of a very good school friend of mine I'd last seen her probably aged about 10, a quarter of a century earlier.
I had no idea she was in HK or running a bar.

 

[Sara_H]

[QUOTE 3323608, member: 76"]When I was in the Army we had to go to Belize, on the way (although it wasn't) we had to pick up a gunsight from Larkhill to take as part of a test. On the way back to Aldershot we picked up a hitchhiker at the Amesbury roundabout, he was going off for a trip as part of his Uni course. We then went to Belize. My tour was about 8 months, and on our return we had to take the sight back to Larkhill. We stopped at the services on the M3 (possibly Fleet, the one with the McDonalds) had a brew and got back in the car to go to Larkhill. At the exit to the services we picked up a hitchhiker! Yep, the same bloke was on his way home after spending 8 months on his field trip [/QUOTE]
One of my friends used to run a b&b in Scotland. I only stayed at the b&b twice, about three years apart. Both times I answered the door while my mate was out to the same government/tourism official who wanted to check that she had the correct "no smoking" signs in place.
On the second occasion I commented that he'd called the first time I was there three years previously, he told me that he'd only called on those two occasions!

 

[MacB]

One of my friends used to run a b&b in Scotland. I only stayed at the b&b twice, about three years apart. Both times I answered the door while my mate was out to the same government/tourism official who wanted to check that she had the correct "no smoking" signs in place.
On the second occasion I commented that he'd called the first time I was there three years previously, he told me that he'd only called on those two occasions!

Fate, kismet, call it what you will but I trust you took down the officials particulars

 

[Sara_H]

Fate, kismet, call it what you will but I trust you took down the officials particulars

No, I sent him away with a flea in his ear. I was having a nap the first time and he knocked quite insistently. I was a bit annoyed!

 

[MacB]

No, I sent him away with a flea in his ear. I was having a nap the first time and he knocked quite insistently. I was a bit annoyed!

and so true love is shattered yet again