Small World

[cdave]

I was out with the joinees last night, and a good friend introduced to a friend his. Who looked familiar. WE put it down to the fact that we must have seen each other at K5. After chatting about the advisability of drinking ethanol from the Chemistry department, it turns out he was the year below me at Warwick, and was one of the people I dragged along to Physoc meetings.

I don't think anything will top the small world story from last year's Eastercon. On of the London BSFA people introduced to makyo. We both did a double take and said at the same time "You're not that {name}, are you?". I went to Uni with him, shared several mutual friends, and have been on a mailing list for years with, but we had never actually met before!

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[fjm.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this tops it, but there is a woman in fandom who turns out to be an ex colleague of my mother's and had spent years wondering if I was "Carole Underwood's daughter". She must have seen me last when I was about ten years old.

[cdave]

That's pretty good. What finally gave unveiled the connection?

[fjm.livejournal.com]

She came up and asked me in Hinckley a couple of years ago.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

My favourite is my cousin, who taught French for years in a secondary school in industrial South Wales. She and a friend of hers would go off on huge trips during the summer holidays, and one year they went to the SouthWestern United States. They were driving through a deserted desert somewhere in Arizona, think Death Valley, and stopped to get out and look at the local wildlife. A risky thing to do, I've always thought. Another car appeared on the horizon heading towards them, they didn't think anything of it until it passed them, screeched to a halt, and four of her sixth-formers stuck their heads out and shouted Miss, Miss, have you got our A-Level results yet, Miss?

[cdave]

Oh wow! That is incredible.

The "have you got our A-Level results yet" is so perfect.

[raven-mocara.livejournal.com]

I can beat it!

When I was about 14, two of my friends from different friends groups but who knew each other by sight, met, completely randomly, in a small diner in a small town in the middle of NewZealand.

About 15, a friend of mine from Suffolk who didnt even know I was in London waved at me out of a black cab window.

And at couple-con last weekend, one of my friends ended up sitting behind a work collegue at LOTR the musical.

I have more but it just gets freaky after a while ;)