People's Wildest Small World Moments

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mattstaff
Mar 12, 2021 9:00 AM EST

Life is a funny and strange thing. It'll oftentimes chuck curveballs our way, and remind us that there's so much we'll never be able to plan for. Sometimes, that can manifest in crossing paths with folks you haven't seen for years in the most unexpected of places, at the most unanticipated of times. If anything, those moments can serve as a great reminder to expect the unexpected. 

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    Rectangle - cybermericorp • 1d 2 Awards Live in Canada, I used to travel for work. I went to the UK, landed in London and rented a car to drive to the job. Stopped at a highway rest stop on the M1 and got some McDonalds, went outside and ran in to my next door neighbour from Canada. G Reply 4 6.6k •..
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    Font - REDDITprime1212 · 1d 1 Award On my honeymoon I ran into my high school girlfriend at a resort in the Caribbean. One evening my wife was taking a nap so I thought that I would just go out on the balcony and take in the view. I look over to my left, and there was Gina. I had not seen or spoken to Gina in at least 8 years at that time. Turns out ha she was there on her honeymoon as well. So it is a pretty small world when your high school girlfriend is in the next room over and you are both
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    Rectangle - QuokkaMocha • 1d Left a job to go to the other side of the country and work somewhere else. Ended up working with the identical twin of the guy l'd worked with at the old job. G Reply 1 217 3 •..
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    Mammal - Lupus_in_Pardula · 1d I was at university in another city. Found home, and found out that my soon-to-be-roommate was the classmate sitting next to me in high school, whom I had lost contact with. G Reply 1 752 3 ...
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    Font - NovelProfessional767 · 1d Saw 8 kids at Disneyland from my soccer team at the same time. Either it was coincidence or those bastards went without me G Reply 909 3 ...
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    Font - TheNamelsPippen • 1d I was in a backpackers hostel in Lesotho and I ran into a guy I knew from my hometown in The Netherlands. G Reply 686 ...
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    Smile - Aldakoopa · 1d My first girlfriend's mom and my mom used to work together and were friends when they were pregnant with us. G Reply 1 303 3 ... +
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    Organism - true-romance• 1d All the Dutch people that moved to Canada around the war know each other. I'll meet a complete stranger and as soon as I hear they have Dutch grandparents I can guarantee we'll find a connection. I moved to Amsterdam and a total stranger told me they had family in Canada. Sure enough, I knew the family. G Reply 1 619 3 •..
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    Smile - ShutrukNahhunte • 1d Years ago I met a guy at a frat convention. Super chill dude. Only knew him by his nickname. 6 years later in the Middle East I hear someone say that nickname. I look over. It's him. Like 10,000 miles away # Reply ↑ 209 ...
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    Font - Risinglnkwell · 1d During my childhood, I moved around a lot. From ages 6-13 i lived in this one house but unfortunately we had to move. I loved that house despite all the family arguing and other stuff while growing up. Cut to now, I'm 26. My bf and I are talking to his family friends at a small party last week. Turns out they now live in my childhood home and they claim its haunted. G Reply 1.0k •..
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    Font - Penguin-mum • 1d We were on holiday in a town around 200 miles from home. One afternoon in a pub there was just us and one other couple, who were talking to the barman. We overheard the couple say "what we remember about (our home town) is..." so we sort of joined in the conversation. Turned out the couple lived around 20 miles from our home town and the barman wasn't a barman at all (just looking after the pub for his parents for the weekend) - he was actually a policeman from our home t
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    Font - Ethandrul · 1d I was working in a call center and I needed a caller's Social Security Number. He gave it to me and I said " No, yours...not mine" . Then it dawned on me that his SSN was the same as mine...but with 2 numbers reversed. We were born the same day- In the same hospital. G Reply 1.2k
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    Font - tehfraginator • 1d When I was one of five kids at a table in high school and three of us had the same birthday. G Reply 1 131 ...
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    Organism - Sweet_Tune · 1d I was living in Japan and on vacation in Seoul Korea. Sitting in the outdoor seating of a cafe. I hear a familiar voice. Looking in that direction, I saw a girl I went to university with and hadn't seen in 6 or 7 years, who was also on vacation. G Reply 1 58 ...
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    Rectangle - ChaosHerald666 • 1d Kept running into this girl that I knew and kinda missed with. Like in a store, at amusement parks, out of state. This happened over 2 years. Found out she was my stalker. G Reply 1 242 ...
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