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.