It's a very small world

[JollyRedDevil]

I used to live in Canterbury. Moved to Birmingham in early 80s and a few years later started dating this girl. It turned out we were both at the same gig at Kent university back when I lived there.
Here friend Becky move up and was lodging with my GF and we obviously became friends. A few years later, I was looking through my photo albums and there was Becky, in a photo I hadrandomly taken one day when I was out walking in Canterbury high street.

 

[patricks148]

i used to be in a few indie type bands back in the 80 and always bumped into a guy at different gigs called Martin Stephensen who had a band called the Daintee's and would often go to the same gigs etc and talk equipment, this was around London.

Was in the guitar shop in Inverness a couple of years ago looking at some acoustics, when a familiar NE accent said, that's good one. it was Martin, turns out he lives in Invergordon now.

 

[lobthewedge]

My Uncle is just back from safari in South Africa. He was out in the bush, parked up watching a pride of lions when he notices the guy in the land rover next to them is an old friend from his curling club.

 

[Slime]

My dad and I once bumped into a customer of his on the summit of Mt Snowdon!

To flip it slightly have you ever been accosted by someone who swears they know you i.e they have mistaken you for someone else so badly they dont believe you're not them? I have, slightly disconcerting at the time but I must have a doppleganger somewhere.

It used to happen to me every week or so before my twin brother moved 10 miles away.
It still happens quite regularly though.

 

[upsidedown]

HiD (no 2) and sister in law were both on holiday at Disney world at same time and were both on same flight back as they saw the space shuttle blasting off.

Being back from NZ for a year and bumped into a couple on a car park at french golf course and he had put the tiles on Brother in law's house in NZ .

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Not me but a member at our club. He is originally from South Wales and a couple of years ago went back with his wife to stay with relatives in Abergavenny. They went out for a pint at a local pub and in came an ex-member of our club who was walking Offa's Dyke from North to South Wales and was looking for a place to stay the night.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Not quite so random but I booked a Flybe flight tomorrow to Paris for the France v Wales game on Friday. Although it is through Flybe the flight is actually an Air France plane. Spoke to a mate tonight who is also going to the game and he said he had booked a flight through KLM but it turns out that it's the same Air France plane, he's in row 29 and I'm in row 28.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

where ever I go I seem to bump into someone I know! its mad..

mrs fancied going southend in the summer because she was bored at home so took her out for the afternoon.. bumped into someone from work who lives in like Cambridge .. was like random! both good drives from us

Mrs finds it annoying sometimes as ill always stop for a chat lol

 

[ScienceBoy]

Not bumped into anyone in Cambridge yet but I have a couple.

At the airport coming back from working away I walk past a guy from my old work queueing to get on a plane at the next gate. He was flying into Luton though.

Many many years ago my family were holidaying in Spain on a Europark, a man comes up to my dad and says he should come back to his caravan.

Turns out the guy is there with his family, has a video of his kids and my sister and I playing together about 6 years before. They happen to keep some old family videos in their van and a video player (time long before DVDs)

 

[Crazyface]

To flip it slightly have you ever been accosted by someone who swears they know you i.e they have mistaken you for someone else so badly they dont believe you're not them? I have, slightly disconcerting at the time but I must have a doppleganger somewhere.

I've got loads of them. My dads death bed confession is gonna be good.

 

[AMcC]

We were in Harry Potter area at Islands of Adventure in Florida and met a former neighbour who had emigrated to Australia a couple of years earlier !

 

[Don Barzini]

Few years back now, we got my wife a new car and part exchanged her Honda Civic during the deal.

A couple of months later, I'm walking down a street about 120 miles away chatting to someone on my mobile. All of a sudden the call cuts out completely. I look at my phone and the call is still connected, but I can't hear anything and the person I'm speaking to can't see me. I'm puzzled.

Suddenly I realise my wife's old car is on the road next to me, sat waiting at some lights. When we'd got rid of the car, I hadn't removed it from my Bluetooth settings! So my call had connected to it as it had driven past. The occupant must have been wondering why all of a sudden he could hear "Hello? Hello"" coming through his/her speakers!

 

[Cherry13]

To flip it slightly have you ever been accosted by someone who swears they know you i.e they have mistaken you for someone else so badly they dont believe you're not them? I have, slightly disconcerting at the time but I must have a doppleganger somewhere.

Similar sort of story, but my wife and Mother in Law went to a spa wkend a few years ago. They were milling about the pool when MiL spotted an old work colleague, but said to my Wife she couldn’t remember her name so she just left it. Later that night she spotted her in the restaurant and the bar, so with a bit of Dutch courage she went over to speak to her and they were having a good chat, she even introduced her to my wife as an ex colleague, the woman politely nodding along.

She then apologized and said i’m Sorry but what’s your name again, woman replied Charlie. It still didn’t ring any bells to my MiL where they worked together. So again she apologized and asked where did we work together. Charlie then ever so politely said I don’t think we did, I think you just recognize me as Val from Emmerdale....

Cue embarrassment and laughter all round. My wife still brings it up to this day with her.

 

[Don Barzini]

and the person I'm speaking to can't see me.

*hear (too late to edit)