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What's your most profound "small world" moment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This refers to when two or more people encounter each other in completely coincidental fashion. You might notice your old classmate from three countries away is now your waiter in a place you had no reason to expect them in, and you might say "wow, what a small world". You might notice two people who you know from completely different spheres miraculously know each other. You might recognize by chance that your penpal has made a cameo at a venue you're at.

But what was your most profoundly coincidental encounter?

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I knew a kid in elementary school, let's call him Brian S. He moved away in the 5th grade. Bye Brian 😢

6th grade. Spring vacation. My family drives us down to visit an aunt from upstate NY, down in North Carolina.

We have our vacation. It's now the following Saturday. We're driving home. We stop at a rest area on 95. I see Brian S and his family just walking from their car to the rest area. Same time as us.

We stop and chat for a few mins. It's the 90s so we can't like trade cell phone numbers or anything. I don't even think we had regular instant messaging screen names yet.

Last I ever saw Brian S.

[–] rzlatic@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it would be cool if Brian S reads this now and PM you after all these years.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah except I obfuscated details, so Tom M is never gonna get it, because we actually grew up in VT.

This is also inaccurate. 😁

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 points 3 months ago

Smart human.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Good human. Obeying the rules of privacy