Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Non-Romantic Relationships
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 06-04-2017, 04:17 PM
 
109 posts, read 100,184 times
Reputation: 117

Advertisements

OK i have two encounters(neither about me)

1 when I was at college two of my friends on the same course who hadn't seen each other since primary school ended up on the same course together

2 we went crown green bowling and we were about to leave when my brother bumped into someone he knew from school
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 06-04-2017, 04:19 PM
 
Location: Arizona
8,247 posts, read 8,599,140 times
Reputation: 27581
Ran into people I worked with in a casino 2000 miles away.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Connecticut is my adopted home.
2,398 posts, read 3,826,388 times
Reputation: 7774
On an international flight. I ran into an old BF. Hadn't seen him in 20 years. He was a flight attendant on that flight. Very unexpected.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 04:54 PM
 
8,238 posts, read 6,558,508 times
Reputation: 23140
10 years after college graduation, I ran into a person I knew at college on a street corner in mid-town Manhattan New York City which is 970 miles from where we went to school together. And Manhattan NYC has a population of 1.6 million.

But my former friend from college and I ended up on the same street corner in Manhattan NYC at the same moment in time.

Last edited by matisse12; 06-04-2017 at 05:06 PM..
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 06:06 PM
 
Location: 🇬🇧 In jolly old London! 🇬🇧
15,675 posts, read 11,490,426 times
Reputation: 12549
Quote:
Originally Posted by ReeceJackox View Post
OK i have two encounters(neither about me)

1 when I was at college two of my friends on the same course who hadn't seen each other since primary school ended up on the same course together

2 we went crown green bowling and we were about to leave when my brother bumped into someone he knew from school
Actually whilst on a stag weekend in Amsterdam I bumped into a bloke that I was in nursery with and the first few years in primary school.

He was doing the same with his mates and lol we recognised each other straight away as he looks the same and so do I apparently!

It was great as my lot and his lot went out as one group and was an absolute classic
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
3,287 posts, read 3,002,249 times
Reputation: 12570
Many years ago I was working for a nonprofit in a building in downtown Minneapolis. There was a print shop in the basement that we used to print up flyers, etc. and I would chat with the guy who ran the shop. My boss organized a group trip to Israel, and when we got to our hotel in Jerusalem, I saw this same guy from our building in the lobby of the hotel. We were both astonished to see each other there.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 06:50 PM
 
9,359 posts, read 6,928,850 times
Reputation: 14767
Ran into two buddies while urininating into the wrigley field trough. None of us are from or live in Chicago. I was three sheets so didn't even catch them outside.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 07:16 PM
 
Location: MO->MI->CA->TX->MA
7,022 posts, read 14,444,118 times
Reputation: 5570
I was still in high school (living in Metro Detroit) and we took a trip with my family to the Great Smoky Mountains about 500 miles south.. and we just happened to bump into a family friend of ours there!
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Colorado
1,020 posts, read 805,456 times
Reputation: 2103
I have a bathroom stall story too LOL.

1) The St. Louis zoo looking at their new baby elephant, Raj. Thing is, we lived in Mpls at the time & the guy we ran into was a co-worker of DH's in CA, that we had recently spent time with at a company event near Vegas. It's pretty weird to be at the zoo in a strange city across the US & hear your very unusual name called out.

2) I was in a bathroom stall in the airport in Little Rock, AR. I lived in Mpls at the time. This was in the days before cell phones. The woman in the stall next to me says "Excuse me, do you work for {insert large F100, but not well known to the general public} company name"? I did, so I replied "yes", but was still very puzzled. We exit the stalls & introduce ourselves, she is a sales rep for my company from yet another state & we are both going to the same client in Little Rock LOL. I'd talked to this woman on the phone many times. After a 'duh' moment, I realized, she'd seen my schwag duffel bag with the company logo, on the floor of my bathroom stall I knew the salespeople were good, but I didn't think most of them had ESP.

I have a bunch of other airport stories, but I don't consider them that odd, b/c my entire division almost, spent every week on the road, so running into each other at airports where we intersected was de rigeuer. But never before or since, has someone intro'd themselves to me, in a bathroom stall.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 06-04-2017, 07:33 PM
 
4,361 posts, read 7,047,419 times
Reputation: 5216
On one of our outings with a weekend hiking club near Washington DC, an older man who had immigrated from Shanghai China, was talking with a young Chinese-American man, and discovered that, long ago, he had been in Boy Scouts in Shanghai with the young man's father.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:

Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Non-Romantic Relationships

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 07:57 AM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top