Has this ever happened to you?

[Floogeldy]

I was talking some business with a buddy today for about five minutes over our cell phones, on the way to my destination. I arrived and pulled into the parking lot. I looked around and there was my buddy, standing outside his car smoking a cigarette, about five feet away from my car.

I said, "Hey." He responded, "What?"

"I just pulled up next to you in my car."

Not bad for a city with over a half a million people. ;)

[LynzM]

1. Nice one, dude.

I didn't have that exact situation, but I met a guy in the train station in Prague who knew my ex-boyfriend, from Connecticut... it's a small, weird world, it is.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. I've got you beat.

A couple years ago, I had the ultimate flight of coincidences.

First, my former HS teacher was heading over there with her boyfriend to do an intensive for their MFA program. I knew we'd be in England roughly around the same time. Talking over the phone, we realized that we were amazingly on the same flight.

Then, while we were waiting in a hellish 6 hr delay at Newark airport (with me popping xanax, because the bar was closed), we see a guy walk by that seems vaguely familar. Well, it turns out it was a guy I went to HS with and hadn't seen since. He was a couple years older and has now made it on broadway. He was also on the same flight to London.

Finally, coming back from London, one of my supervisors from the movie theatre I worked at after HS was on the same flight and sitting two rows away from me.

Now that is a bizarre set of coincidences for just one little trip to London.

[Floogeldy]

5. That is CRAZY bizarre.

My fifth grade teacher told us the story about her traveling to another town in our state to attend the week-long state educational association meeting (with, presumably, all of the teachers in the state attending). The meeting let out early one day and my teacher decided to go to the movies.

She went to the theater, bought a ticket, and entered. It was so dark she couldn't see. She felt her way along about half-way down and decided to sit down in a chair next to the aisle. She sat down on a man in the chair, said "I'm sorry," and continued walking to find another seat.

Just then, the theater lights came on. She looked around and THEY WERE THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE THEATER. :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. Yeah, that's pretty weird.

Honestly, I'm a magnet for weird shit. Even the teacher that I flew to London with, if something weird happens to her and I'm around, she blames it on me. My friends all say that the weirdest stuff happens when I'm around. If you combine the powers of my friend Steph and I, it just increases expodentially. We don't seek the weird shit, it just happens.

I'm probably one of the only people to have responded to the question, "what's up?" with "nothin'" on a day when I was arrested and molested (two seperate incidents). The friend I was with that knew about my day just turned to me and said, "Do you realize you were arrested and molested today and you honestly responded 'nothin'? You need to write a book!"

[IsIt1984Yet]

3. Just a few weeks ago I was driving down the road and pulled up

at a stoplight right next to my first love's grandmother. I hadn't seen her in about 18 years!! And... I swear, she was like 80 THEN. AND... she remembered me!! :o

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I ran into some people at Narita airport on my way to Beijing...

whom I had met in Italy on a trip four years previously. And we recognized each other.

[u4ic]

7. Yep

Just the other day, I found some old photos, including 3 in which I was presented with bursaries when I was in university. They were 10 years old.

Didn't I notice one of the presenters was a member of my (now) church? We were both in a different city at the time, and we are both new to this particular faith.

In 1986, a friend and I went to Europe. She was from a small town in northern Ontario, and they had a going away party for her.

A few days later, she (well, we) ran into one of those people at the party - at Schipol airport in Amsterdam. She didn't know he'd be travelling, and he didn't know her schedule; he was just an acquaintance of her boyfriend.

[HEyHEY]

8. Nope, but I get wierd meetups all the time

I was in a record store once and saw a girl working there I had met in New Brunswick the year before.

I was in a parcking lot in Trois Riveries at ten at night and met a girl from Vancouver I went to High School with. I didn't know her, but I knew her brother.
I was in Vancouver International airport and saw a friend of mine from Quebec, standing right in front of me. I was going to New Brunswick, she was heading back to Quebec.

I ended up roomies in New Brunswick with a guy who lived five minutes away from me my whole life growing up in Vancouver but we'd never met and knew tons of the same people.

I walked into a bar in Fredericton and saw a guy I'd gone to school with in Moncton three years previously.

I was on the seabus in Vancouver and saw a girl I'd gone to school with in NB four years previously (At the time.)

I once phoned a PR company at work to talk to the media spokesperson about something. His name was familiar - especially cause he spelled it strangely. It was a guy I went to School with in New Brunswick years earlier.

And that's not even all of them.

[Richardo]

9. New Brunswick is some kind of time-space continuum nexus thingy, innit?