It's a small world

[cross_7]

I go to check into the hotel in Decatur Tx and they ask the guy checking in ahead of me for his phone number and he gives them an Oklahoma area code. I ask him where he's from and he tells me and I tell him I just bought a place there.
He ask what place, so I start giving directions and so on. He says yes you're the one that bought the old Davis place and gives me some history and etc.
Come to find out he has 1700 acres east of me about 3 miles. He and his wife are really nice people and we had a good visit.
Funny how you can meet your neighbor for the first time 400 miles from home

 

[Workinonit Farm]

It always amazes me when something like that happens. I've had that happen once or twice.

Glad you got to meet one of your new neighbors.

 

[Nesikep]

a veteran I know met a POW he captured in north africa in a bar in Bralorne BC.. he thanked him for saving his life!
My dad met a fellow from a swiss alp he knew when he was 6 in Cache Creek BC.

There's a lot of small world stories, all pretty amazing, I've met classmates in the strangest places too

 

[dun]

When I had the gunshop in the desert I had one customer that I didn;t know was from MO. When I started telling him about the place we were buying he told me the entore history. Turns out his parents (where he was rasied) are the end of the road and his sister had the place across the road. Turns out that the place we were talking about is situated right in the middle of his clan.

 

[TexasBred]

Elevator door opened in the hotel lobby in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a few years ago...There stood our local sheriff. Asked him if he trailed me all the way down there. Could hardly believe my eyes. He had come down with a church group and they were staying in the same hotel.

 

[MO_cows]

It's amazing how those coincidences can happen. I have ended up on the same flight as someone I knew, we were traveling different places for different things, just happened to overlap for that one leg of air travel.

 

[D2Cat]

My first day at a Jr. college in Iola, Ks. a guy had a group around him as he was explaining how he was a surfer and of all his experience surfing. I came up to the group to hear what was going on. Then I recognized the guy with all the talk. I had bought a bicycle from him when I was 16 years old on the island of Okinawa.

He quit talking immediately when he saw me. It was all BS. There is a reef around the entire island out about 1/2 mile. No waves breaking there!

 

[chrisy]

when I was teaching I came back from a holiday to see a teacher I had worked with when I first trained, who had been dismissed for shaking a child, she had not told the Head about this incident,(obviously) and soon left once she saw me as I was deputy head she knew she couldn't lie anymore.

 

[Deepsouth]

I went in a waffle house in Denver one morning. As soon as I spoke to the waitress she asked if I was from down south. I told her yes Mississippi. Turned out she was from the next town over and I had a job going on her brothers land.

She said it sure was nice to talk to someone who knew how to say y'all right. ;-)

 

[john250]

MY college buddy got married in S Bend Indiana. At the reception, I was in the mens room when two E. Europeans who hadn't seen each other in 50 yrs met at adjacent urinals.

 

[Bigfoot]

Then there is that sick feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you see an old girlfriend.

 

[HOSS]

Then there is that sick feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you see an old girlfriend.

Especially when your wife is with you.......it is one of those times when you don't know just what might be said......sick feeling indeed :shock:

I met an ex-coworker that I hadn't seen in 15 years in the customs line at Taipei International airport. Kinda weird.

 

[greybeard]

In my small town, I once met a man that met the man that met Andy Griffith...

 

[Nesikep]

My best friend moved to Taiwan.. On one of his trips back, at the airport he met a fellow that I know from a neighboring town.

A fellow from here once went up in to the Northwest territories and met a guy he knew from here on the little 8 passenger plane.

I was working 10 hour graveyard shifts in Vancouver and had a brutal commute.. 1 1/2 hours each way on the bus.. Essentially a 13 hour day... It was saturday morning and I was in the back of the bus at 6 am, absolutely zoned out.. I had a hat that said "Lightfoot gas, Lillooet BC".. Fellow sits down across the aisle from me and say "I'm from Lillooet".. I open my eyes and say "Hi R.J."... I knew him from school. Met a couple other of my classmates around vancouver as well

 

[highgrit]

How about meeting someone you've never seen or talked to in person. I had a guy come up to me at the Lumber City feed mill and introduce himself to me. He saw my picture on Cattle Today and recognized me from that. GA Prime, shocked me that day for sure.

 

[TexasBred]

MY college buddy got married in S Bend Indiana. At the reception, I was in the mens room when two E. Europeans who hadn't seen each other in 50 yrs met at adjacent urinals.

Ok John...finish the rest of the story. :lol2: :lol2:

 

[dieselbeef]

I see that same jacka$$ in the mirror everyday..cant get away from him

 

[dieselbeef]

I see that same jacka$$ in the mirror everyday..cant get away from him

 

[hillbilly beef man]

I was in Arizona once and there was a car wreck on the bridge that goes over Lake Powell dam. It was mid-day in July and was hotter than hades. There was a pretty blonde AZ state trooper working traffic that looked like she was about to roast. I got her a botle of water out of the cooler and took it to her. She talked like I did, turns out she grew up 10 miles from me.

 

[Nesikep]

I heard of a couple more stories recently, thought they were pretty good.

My buddy Trent is about 55, and back in the day he raised a lot of cane in Edmonton with his buddies, drag racing, drinking and the likes. Last week he and his wife (married 8 years) went to see her father on his deathbed, so the WHOLE family was there.. She goes to introduce him to her brother, turns out he knew him from back in the day!
Another one was of 2 brothers who hadn't seen or spoken to each other in 60 years because of some family feud... They met on a greyhound bus, and well, I guess enough water had flowed under the bridge by then they buried the hatchet!