Is'nt it a small world?.................

[cat woman]

I work in a large well known service station so I get to meet and talk to all kinds of people. I live 230 miles from my place of birth so when I hear lorry drivers coming in with the North East accent it usually ends up asking where we each come from. The other day this happened, and I was completely gob smacked! This fellow not only lived a half a mile from my mam, but is involved in the demolition of the houses on the estate my mam lives on. Has anyone on AB had the same experience?......... xxx :-)

[ludwig]

I once locked myself out of a hire car in Canada in the middle of nowhere and had to flag down a passing car to take me to the nearest phone box.
The people who stopped lived about 2 miles from where I did in england.

[libertie]

A small world indeed....a couple of years ago I was in a theatre in Edinburgh when I bumped into (literally) one of the Greek waiters that had worked in the hotel I stayed in the previous summer in Rhodes!!!

[morg_monster]

in a shopping mall car park in Arizona (US), we stopped to talk to a guy who was wearing an england shirt, turned out he had been taught PE by my uncle.

[ICEMANSAV]

Went on holiday to St. Lucia with my fiancee, and saw my ex getting married there, worse still after their do they were stopping in our hotel for the honeymoon.

[DMA]

Hi cat woman howz batman

[Quizmonster]

Whilst strolling in the Botanical Gardens in Singapore in 1967, I came face to face with a woman who - as a girl, obviously - had been in my class at school, 14 years earlier, in a small town in the north of Scotland. Beat that for time and distance!

[Mudman]

I was at a party in the far north of Scotland once. I worked in Greece for a while, some time afterwards. We met a girl, In Greece, That had been at the same party.

After the work ended and on my way back to Scotland, I had planned to meet two NewZealand friends in London but the batteries in my notebook had died (electronic notebook. before mobiles) and I had no other record of their contact number.

Not being able to find batteries, I gave up hope and decided to spend the 2 days sightseeing. They were changing the guard on the second day so I went to look. With the thousands of people there, It took ages to find a decent viewpoint. When I did, I found myself standing no more than eight feet away from the friends I was supposed to meet.

This might sound's odd but it didn't seem like such a big deal at the time. Was quite a while before It struck me what the chances of two chance meetings like that in 6 weeks are.

Wierd things happen to me all the time. I think there's a 'glitch' in my matrix.

[cat woman]

Thank you to all for responding, as I was reading I was amased at the chances of meeting people in far out places. Its a bit like the " Twilight Zone " I felt sorry for you " ICEMANSAV " I surpose you can laugh about it now, but it must have put a dampener on your holiday, having to creep around the hotel incase you bumped into them. Hi ludwig, A friend of mine used to live in Canada years ago, she was out doing shopping with her husband and daughter, on the way home their car broke down, a car pulled up to help, it was a family from England on holiday, my friend instantly reconised them, they lived in the same street as her mum and dad! She has since parted from her Canadian husband and now lives in England with a new husband, and goes to visit the family who stopped to help. xxx :-)

[campbellking]

Standing in a bus queue in Toronto to go to Niagara Falls whilst on holiday from England, met my ex-boyfriend's best mate who had gone to work in Saudi Arabia one year earlier. He was also there on holiday.

Wouldn't have been so bad, but part of the reason I split up from my bloke was because I couldn't stand him!

Also met our next door neighbours on a family holiday in wales.

[Mudman]

Did he have a tan?.. No?.. He could've been stalking you. As for the nieghbours?? Well....

[Toureman]

I was on holiday in Tunisia when I got talking to a lady in our hotel who was really mad at a policeman who caught her speeding twice where she lived, she described him as a real nasty bloke and she also told me his name, I kept quiet as it was my brother!