You never know who you may run into...

[Tensaw]

I use to travel to Europe for work. So I could get around in Germany, Netherlands, etc. ok. But I know nothing about the French language. One trip with my wife we were in the underground metro in Paris. I was trying to figure out what train to take to get to our destination. With thousands of people coming and going, a young lady stopped next to me looking at the map. I asked her if she spoke English. She said yes, she was an American. After her giving us directions I asked her why was she in Paris. She was a college student studying abroad. I asked what college. She said,"oh a very small college, you probably never heard of it." So I asked again. She said, "Springhill College in Mobile, Alabama." Well that was our home town and I knew Springhill College very well! You just never know…

 

[MaxMan]

Neat. I guess you shazred places and maybe people in common.

 

[OMCHamlin]

And later…?

 

[Mobuck]

Yeah, no one knows the tiny village that's my hometown but apparently one heckuva lot of folks have attended the state university 40 miles away.

 

[Ride1949]

And later…?

You must have missed this part...

One trip with my wife.

 

[gunzo]

Not a foreign country but close. With friends rode my motorcycle about 60 mi. NW to meet some of their friends. Attended a concert, stayed & next morning rode to have breakfast with new friends , friends. We then rode into Indiana to a festival like town, had fun, bid goodbyes, glad to meet y'all & came home.

Fast forward about 5 years, & a friend that had been on that ride & I were near the 0 mile marker in Key West Fl. when my bud said look! that's J & his wife. We exchanged pleasantries & bid goodbye once again.

Now, not kidding, it gets weirder. Five or so years later I'm on a rigging job about 60 miles south of home, and the crane operator operator there seemed gave me a weird vibe. After about 3 days I couldn't sort it out so just got nosey. Where you from & what's your name? Yep, the guy we rode to Indiana with & later saw in Key West.

Small state & all, but that 15 year deal was just weird.

 

[GypsmJim]

We were taking a tour of a tequila plant in the Caribbean while on a Cruise Ship excursion. The plant was antiquated and run down. Many of the conveyor components were wood (not heard of) and the metal parts were badly rusted.

I recalled a job I once had as an Engineering Consultant in an awful plant in ****,**. I commented to my wife that this dump hole looked just like the plant I went to in ****.**, where, as you know, I contracted Type A hepatitis at the local restaurant. The guy in front of me in line said: "Hay, we are from ****,**.

What could I say?.....

 

[contender]

I've had a few instances where out of the ordinary,, I've run into folks I know or used to be around. As we say; "The world is a lot smaller nowadays. "

 

[jav]

Yea that's cool you never know who you run into and where . We were in Italy on the fast trains just messing around the Tuscan area and we look up and I could believe it out of all place a good friend of my daughter was right there we hug talked a little bit it's was great

 

[Larryburford]

In 1985 I went to Fort Walton Beach Fl with two of my buddies. My friend David had just graduated high school. We stayed at a resort on the beach that had a huge swimming pool that had a large rock in the middle that contained a bar inside the rock. You swam under the waterfall to get into the bar. As soon as we got there Dave jumps in the pool and swims under the waterfall and into the bar. He comes out with two beer's and has one turned up killing it. As soon as he came out a small girl on the other side of the pool shouts " Look Mom it's David". It was a family from his church in NW Louisiana where his Dad was the preacher. Ha! Dave said... Dammit!!! My momma is going to hear about this before I finish my beer.

 

[Fox Mike]

The wife and I were at a World Convention in San Antonio and were outside taking a smoke break. A gentleman stopped and sat down on the chair nearby. I noticed his name tag said "South Africa". We started talking and he said that he had come to the States a lot and had a friend in Oklahoma. I asked where in Oklahoma and he said Poteau. I was amazed because one of my best friends was from there and we had stayed with him a year before. . I asked the mans name and he said it was Robertson. No kidding; by friend is named Robertson and he is staying nearby. I contacted Rob and the South African and he started talking. Come to find out it was Rob's dad that the man had visited years before. All those thousands of people and I find one that knows my buddy and his dad.

 

[dreamer]

Yeah, no one knows the tiny village that's my hometown but apparently one heckuva lot of folks have attended the state university 40 miles away.

With Green City and Green Castle so close together, I figured that was the true garden spot of the state