Thread: A strange Story of a Small World.

Guilty as charged!
I reckon 30years have passed since I had last spoken to that lovely person
An amazing connection , all because of this site, Thanks Inc.

Dave

Yes it's odd how you meet people who know people you know or have heard of you from others etc. I was working up out of Fitzroy WA moons ago and happened to mention my younger bro was a panel beater in a Sidney burb and the bloke next to me said "Where?" and I told him (bro owned the business) and this bloke did his apprenticeship with him.
Another time me and the Cook were going up an elevator at Changi and who should be coming down the opposite side but my elder bro who lived there...
Neither of us knew the other would be there at that time (long before emailing) and he and his cook were off back to his companies German base.
Another time I'd gone back to the UK after 5 years and was in the local telling lies and talking to a couple of others and said I'd lived in Melbourne for a while and this bloke said his son lived there.
I looked at him and said "I'll tell you your sons name and where he lives" .....now bear in mind I'd never met this bloke before but the incredible likeness between him and his boy who I knew before I left the UK, was amazing.
And I was right.
But even stranger was that some couple of years before going back I was driving up Punt Road and while stopped in traffic was looking at a car yard on the opposite side of the road..... and thought "I know that bloke". Later I went out of my way to check it out and wandered amongst the used cars and a voice said "Bloody hell, what are you doing here Alan?"
This lad was a salesman there and a friend more of my younger bro than me back in the UK, but I knew him well and he was the son of the bloke in the pub I said about above!
It's a small world as they say.
Be careful what you do as someone somewhere will know you and tell others about it. :0
AlanH.

Two personal experiences along similar lines.

The recent one, about two years ago I was looking at buying some replacement batteries for my power system, and was looking at a supplier with a local office. Digging into the antecedents of the company, I discovered that the proprietor was the son of the man who was the CFI of the flying school where I learnt to fly over fifty years ago.

Going back a few years, in 1973, I was in the restaurant at the ferry terminal at the Hook of Holland, waiting for the ferry to the UK, and ran into the man who was the manager of a motel I had lived in for several months in Port Moresby three years earlier.

A couple of years ago ,we were staying at William Creek for a few days, (much to some people ''s amazement) and a few ringers from Anna Creek swung in for a beer. During the ensuing yarns ,one bloke mentioned he had spent time at Timber Creek many years ago ,so I asked "Ever come across The Admiral " ? Bearing in mind he passed on 15 years ago , and he replied "hell yeah" , so I pointed to my bride and said " that's his daughter" . He was almost speechless.

Years back when I was travelling about in Scotland I met a nice young lady and we ended up travelling together, eventually back to Australia then New Zealand. One day we had lunch with a distant family relation and the topic of Michele s heritage came up. She mentioned the town and my relative started to laugh. It seems his daughter is married to a local, but not from the same extended family as hers. Should have bought a lotto ticket. What would the odds be of a Canadian meeting an Australian Kiwi while backpacking in Scotland with family residing in a small town in the north of New Zealand ? Thankfully we weren’t related cause we are still together.

Years ago when I was in the army, I was on leave enjoying myself at the local fete, upon telling my mates I had to leave early to return to base, they said that's funny they'd met someone earlier that day that was also returning to the same base camp. I didn't recognise the description they gave and thought no more of it, weeks later I happened to notice a picture in the locker, of one of my army mates, with his mates from school and recognised the sister of one of my female friends boyfriends, so mystery solved!