It is a SERIOUSLY small world
 

At my last job in London, I spent a lot of time quizzing a girl who worked with me who came from Melbourne about what it was like living there, she was the only person I knew who had lived in Melbourne. She returned to live in Melbourne about 1 year before we moved down under ourselves, and we lost touch.

Today in a cafe in Mordialloc, Melbourne I bumped into her.

Turns out she lives -

- In the same suburb as us
- In the same street as us
- 11 doors down :ohmy::ohmy:

It is a seriously small world.

Buzzy

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Yeah, you've told your wife what an amazing coincidence it is haven't you ;) Does she believe you ;)

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:eek::lol:

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SSSSCHPOOKY

All I can say its a good job you didn't give her one whilst in quizzing mode;) are you sure she's not stalking your Buzzy-Bee?:ohmy:

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Funny, I would never have thought of it like that.

Buzzy

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As a teenager I lived in a small village in Ireland.
At the time my Dad was living in Steatham, South London. While visiting him I went into a fish and chip shop and bumped into a lad from our village who had moved to London the year before.

It is a small world :D

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In 1999 i was involved in a road traffic accident in the outback,and i mean in the middle of bloody nowhere.In 2005 while on holiday in switzerland i walk into a bar in Zurich and the only other customer is the aussie driver of the bus that nearly sent me to heaven(or hell),you should have seen the look on his face and mine come to think of it.Turns out he met a swiss girl on that bus and moved to Zurich,it REALLY is a small world:eek:

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:eek: Don't know if anyone will top that story :lol:
That's mad!

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I moved to Canada in 82, when I was 20. I lived in Toronto for 7 yrs during the 80's then moved around canada for a further 12 yrs.

On a visit to the uk I was chatting with an old school friend one day and found out that my first ever girlfriend from junior school had moved to canada in the 80's and was living about 40km away from toronto. We keep in touch now however, by the time I found outI was living 3000km away in newfoundland.

Yes, its a small world.............

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Tell me about it still freaks me out to this day,was beginning to think he was sent from above to take me out and finally caught up with me after coming close in oz,jeasus now im freaked:ohmy::eek:

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I bumped in to an old college teacher 10 years after i had left whilst on holiday in Bulgaria. She was staying in the same hotel.

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After my first year at uni I went to work in America for a few months, on my way back at JFK airport I bumped into a girl that I went to school with (there was only 36 in my year) who was on the same flight. When I got on the plane the guy that sat next to me was in my course at uni!
The following year I worked in a hotel on a small island off the coast of Cape Cod where I checked the parents of the girl I had bumped into at JFK airport.

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Me thinks she is stalking you:eek:

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I was drinking in the 'Pig And Whistle' in Brisbane the other day taking in a live English Premier League game and it was full of Brits on the piss!

It truely IS a small world.

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Lost touch with my best mate from school for over 20 years. Out of the blue, he gets in touch with me via Friends Reunited. Turns out he emigrated to Oz about the same time as us and is living 90 minutes up the road in Sydney.

Was sat on the back seat of a bus outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York. Starting chatting to the girl sitting next to me. Turned out she'd been brought up in the same North Herts town as me and had, in fact, lived most of her life one street down from me.

Walked down the beach here at Gerroa and started chatting to one of the council lifeguards. Turned out he followed the summer and spent most summers in the UK working Fistral beach. Then it turned out that my best mate down there was his best man at his wedding.

My parents come along to my wedding. My new sister-in-law is there with her husband. My parents get talking to my new brother-in-law and it transpires he has a distinctive surname that they're familar with. My dad jokingly says in passing, "I don't suppose you know Flo" then - and he says, "Yes, she's my mum." The Flo in question was my mum's best mate back in Ireland (and indeed a Bridesmaid at my parent's wedding) - they had lost touch with each other and hadn't spoken for nearly 50 years. They remained in close contact until Flo died a year ago.


:)

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In the late 1800s my father's, great uncle emigrated to Cairns. Never to be heard of again.

In 1994, I booked into a hotel in Cairns and the girl on the reception desk said that her mother's maiden name was the same as mine. Turns out that my great great Uncle had established this hotel and it was still owned and run by the family.

Another branch of the family moved to Tarree in NSW.

In the 1950's my Grandmother's sister emigrated to Sydney. By the 1980's her grandchildren had moved to Tarree. One of them is best friends with someone with my surname. Yup, you guessed it, my Mother's niece is now best friends with my father's cousin, on the otherside of the World.

Small World indeed!

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Dont worry, when you come on your trip to london,the bars are full of eastern europeans,not a brit in sight:thumbup:

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No its not!

I keep seeing people around Brisbane and thinkng, oh my god thats my best friend from Primary School, or thats my first girlfriend, or thats that girl from Uni I shagged once.

And it never is!

And I really have to stop going up to these people and talking to them :o, cos it sounds like a really lame chat up line.

JTL

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2 and a half years ago i went to visit my twin brother in Canberra. About an hour into the journey on the coach from Sydney to Canberra a girl tapped me on the shoulder and said excuse me i saw you at the airport and it has been bugging me since and i have to ask you "are you a Turnbull" she was so shocked when i said yes, it turned out she is the best friend of my twin brothers wife.
I have travelled alot of the world and i have always met up with someone i know or someone who knows someone i know
It is a very small world indeed

John

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On my WHV in 1991 I started talking to a girl who was staying in the same backpackers room as me. We vaguely recognised each others name & after going through virtually our entire life history to that point realised we'd been in the same school class when we were 6.

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I went on a two week tour in the states and we all had to write our addresses down.... the girl in front wrote the same street in Aberdeen that I was living at, only three doors down and we had never seen each other before! We are still in periodiv contact by email, she lives in New York, I live in Perth.

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And a wholesome bunch of salt-of-the-earth people I'm sure they are ... apart from the dole scroungers and the Russian mafia running prostitute rings (I've seen The Bill).

I'll buy a copy of The Daily Mail to get myself up to date with the latest developments. ;)

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Reckon i might have the scariest one... just over a year ago i was on honeymoon in a small fishing village in Morocco, tiny place, one of the most relaxed chilled out places you could fine. It was winter, well out of season, hardly any other tourists. So in totally relaxed fashion in that warm honeymoon euphoria we were sitting at a cafe having a drink when who walked by and said hello...... my ex wife:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

She had decided to just take herself off on a holiday by herself..... In all the bars in all the cities why the hell did she choose that one.. So now we have migrated to Australia to the most isolated city in the world... great choice, should be safe here.

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I went home the other day and b**ger me if I didn't just go and bump into my wife in the living room - it's a small world.

(does this thread remind anyone of the 'Letterbocks" page in the Viz magazine?)

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you want to be more careful then;)

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julie here,I met a guy in a nightclub very drunk then we bumpd into each other and he asked me out,when we went on the date he told me where he worked,with 30,000 others and i told him the only guy i knew who worked there,turned out to be his best mate who was also my best mates sisters husband,we had been to the same weddings,parties etc for the last 6 years and knew all the same people,when we look at all our pics and videos we are in them with diff partners,very funny,now ofcourse hes my husband.
THEN we went to mexico on honeymoon met a lovely couple only to find out their second name was drennan too,phoned home asked about them and ofcourse its my husbands second cousin,weird.
THEN we moved to oz met lovely couple and when my bro came to visit he got talkin to them only to find out the shop he goes to every morning in scotland is owned by my friends,who live in oz,her mum,he went home to tell her he was in her daughters house in oz, INDEED A SMALL WORLD....

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A bloke I used to work with 17 years ago in the UK has just started working for the same company as me over here.

It's a small world.

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Was that the doorbell?

:D

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:eek::eek: Quick.... hide

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When my sister moved to San Francisco the first person she saw when she went to buy some food was a guy who lived about 4 doors down from us when we were growing up. In his early 20’s he went AWOL and was never heard from by his distraught family and friends. He knew she recognised him but said nothing. Poor sister had the dilemma of whether to tell his family he was safe etc or respect his wishes that he didn’t want to be found.

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I chatted and PM'd a lady on here, who lives in the Isle of Wight, who's surname turned out to be the same as my maiden name!

My sister, who still has my maiden name, recently brought a property in the Isle of Wight, who happened to be the lady who was marketing the property?? Yes the lady I spoke to on here!!!

She and my sister got chatting that's how they got to discover the coincidence!!!!!

Definately a small world!!!!

C x

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I started my job here (Australia) and a guy in my team said I know your last name, turns out he worked with my husbands uncle in Scotland :lol:

Next one, dad picks up (coach driver) a family bound for Australia in Manchester and says Oh, where are you going, they said QLD.

He said oh, where abouts, they said Sunshine Coast,

He said oh, where abouts, they said Currimundi

Dad said my good god my daughter lives there turns out they live 4 doors down :lol:

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My daughter had to buddy a new girl in her class and it turns out that it was Wendys daughter. Not only that but her husband used to go out with my best mate whilst we all slammed school together. Turns out that they were living just round the corner from us. Hadn't seen him for 21 years. Also went out with the same guy that Wendy had only a couple of years earlier.

Spooky..............:eek:

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I have been looking after a mother and her prem baby, got chatting about the UK and her husbands grandmother is my mothers next door neighbour:eek:

Di

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See I read things like that and my mind boggles as to how the conversation got to that link. I have no idea who my husband's grandmother's next door neighbour was or even their address:rofl:

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Thats cause you spend too much time gassing on here:p

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The conversation was that she had moved to Perth when she was 9, her family came from the same area as mine, she went back for a while and met her now husband who returned to perth with her and they married a year ago, she mentioned the family coming out for the wedding, i remembered my parents telling me that the neighbours where here last year for a wedding, and i know her father in law:D
I emailed a pic of us both with the baby and my mum has been round with the pic today.

Its surprising what you chat about at 4am on night duty:blink:

Di