What are the odds?

[MendieGK]

Both times I have been to New York i have bumped into people that i know. Last time 2 years ago, i bumped into an old school friend and also someone from work.

small world.

 

[Crazyface]

It dawned on me I needed to pick the camera up for a close-up without the darts going out of shot (so it didn't look like I'd cheated somehow).

That video is priceless to me as I still can't believe the odds of that happening on camera the first time it was tried. Could have been there weeks/months without success.

I haven't done it since.

Try a life time !

 

[Smiffy]

Missus and I were on holiday in Kos a few years ago. First evening there we went for a drink and were sitting outside on the terrace looking out over the bay.
Couple of tables away from us were two English couples chatting and drinking, when they realised that we were English too they invited us over to join them.
Got chatting, one of them mentioned that his Dad lived in Eastbourne and after asking me what I did for a living (I was selling Fords at the time) told me that his Dad had recently bought a brand new Mondeo Estate from Birchwood Ford (where I worked).
Turned out that I had sold it to him, and he turned up at the showroom a couple of weeks later with the Son I had met in Kos.
Small world.

 

[upsidedown]

Heading off skiing with my nephew and bumped into old college mates in Geneva airport on way out. Sat on plane coming home waiting for rest of passengers and nephew pipes up " Suppose more of your old mates are going to turn up " Then last guy on was indeed from old college and ended up sitting next to us, yarned all the way back to UK.

In NZ was playing golf one day with HiD when we invited guy behind us to join up as slow up front and turned out HiD had nursed his prem twins 6 years back in Blighty

 

[Three]

(I was selling Fords at the time) told me that his Dad had recently bought a brand new Mondeo Estate from Birchwood Ford (where I worked).
Turned out that I had sold it to him, and he turned up at the showroom a couple of weeks later with the Son I had met in Kos.
Small world.

Played golf with a random stranger in Indonesia a few years ago, we worked out that both our grandads were panel beaters at Ford hq in Dagenham at the same time back in the 40's. They must have been colleagues.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

My wife's paternal family history is full of interesting guys 'n galls going back for over 400 years.
What she finds really spooky is the high number of coinciding births and deaths over this period.

 

[Ethan]

A mate told me a story about visiting the back end of nowhere in New Zealand from Ireland one year. He and his then girlfriend, now wife, went on a hike over a faraway hill where the hotel had told them was a little known lake for swimming.They walked for an hour, saw nobody but sheep on the way and found the lake. Not a sinner anywhere. They decided to skinny dip, so in they went au natural. 5 minutes later, they saw people approaching and my mate thought 'Bloody Hell, thought we were going to have this to ourselves'. The people approached and it turned out to be a couple from their year at college whom they knew well and were staying 30 or 40 miles in the opposite direction from them.

 

[3offTheTee]

Last Wednesday The Managers' of Chelsea and Man U we're number 1 and 2 to be the next Managers' to leave.

Would hate to think when the last time this was the case and if it is ever likely to happen in the future!