It's a small world.

Capt Lightning

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This morning Mrs. L. and I went for our Covid booster jabs. The nurse who gave the jabs asked where we came from and it turned out that she had lived just a short walk away from our house (although some years later than us). A further coincidence was that she knew a family who bought our old home .
This was in a small town some 300 miles away from where we now both live. It's definitely a small world.
 

Capt Lightning said:
This morning Mrs. L. and I went for our Covid booster jabs. The nurse who gave the jabs asked where we came from and it turned out that she had lived just a short walk away from our house (although some years later than us). A further coincidence was that she knew a family who bought our old home .
This was in a small town some 300 miles away from where we now both live. It's definitely a small world.
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I've often said this... it's just amazing sometimes the co-incidences which confront us
 
I was born and raised in the small town of Fairfield, Iowa. Then in our early 30's we moved to a Chicago suburb until we retired. After that we relocated and currently live in The Villages Florida. Our home town of Fairfield, Iowa is 1150 miles from our current home in The Villages, Florida. One of my hobbies is an old collector car that we like to take to monthly cruise nights. On the front of the car where the license plate is normally displayed I have a Hawk Head which Iowans recognize as being from the Hawkeye state (Iowa). I enjoy when at the cruise nights, people come up to me and ask, "where are you from in Iowa?" and it leads to a conversation with fellow Iowans.

Two years ago while atttending a cruise night, a fellow was looking at my car and noticed the Hawk Head plate. He looked at me sort of funny and and asked if I was from Fairfield, Iowa. I recognized his voice, and said "Hi Gary". He and I used to work together before we moved to Illinois. We had not seen each other for over 30 years. What a coincidence!

Then last year at another cruise night an fellow walked by my car and asked,
"are you from Iowa?"
"yes"
"what town in Iowa?
"Fairfield"
"No kidding? We also lived in Fairfield but moved away a few years ago, I am not originally from Fairfield but my wife is." "She's around somewhere, let me go get her."
When he brings back his wife to turns out she was in my high school class and I had not seen her since graduation day 51 years ago!

Yes, it is a small world!
 

At a psych. hospital, I was talking to a patient. He mentioned that he once lived in NYC. I did, too. We got to talking and it turns out about 20 years ago, we both lived just a few feet from each other on 63rd Road, in Queens, NYC. Then the psychologist said he lived on 63rd Road. 20 years ago, we lived just a few hundred feet from each other, at the same time. We probably saw each other on the street.
20 years ago, I just came out of the Navy, the patient was working in a Waldbaum's grocery store, and the psychologist was in school. 20 years later, were all in the same room in a psych. hospital. 🤔
 
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The best coincidental story I ever heard was a friend of mine.

He'd not spoken to his family for a while and after his divorce he decided to take a 3 month trip to India riding all through India by train... never having been there before.

Half way through his trip the train stopped at Calcutta, and the trains stop for several hours at a time for maintenance... so passengers are free to wander where they will in the city..

My friend was walking around the very busy city, and swore he could hear his name being called.. and realised that couldn't be possible, and ignored it..until it got more insistent, and after looking right and left , he looked up.. and there was his Brother and friends on the rooftop bar..above.

neither one of them knew the other was going to be in India.. much less Calcutta.. and if the train hadn't stopped for maintenance.. they would never have known
 
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Capt Lightning said:
This morning Mrs. L. and I went for our Covid booster jabs. The nurse who gave the jabs asked where we came from and it turned out that she had lived just a short walk away from our house (although some years later than us). A further coincidence was that she knew a family who bought our old home .
This was in a small town some 300 miles away from where we now both live. It's definitely a small world.
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Do you learn or ignore its meaning? Do you believe life is all by chance or is there someone pulling the strings? All the time the same? Or occasionally to a purpose? Does anything have a meaning? Or is it all random chaos and we just see into it what really is not there? Ageless questions. What's your answer?
 
Almost 40 years ago, I was taking photographs for a book on modern stained glass. I was living in a low-population rural valley in the far west of Canada. I had a train ticket for traveling across the country & back. It gave me the option to get off at any station and then get back on to travel further, within a specified, reasonable period of time.

I'd gotten in touch with glass designers/artists from across the country. I was given addresses in various cities where their glass had been installed, in public places or private homes. The artists arranged the permissions in the case of private homes. Eventually, I'd made my way over to Toronto. Moving around by taxi, I was now setting up in this house that had a stained-glass skylight. While fiddling with my tripod & camera, a woman about my age came through a hallway into the room. We were flabbergasted because recognized each other. (We'd moved in the same circles, though we didn't really know one another.) She was a guest staying with friends in this Toronto house, about 2500 miles from where we both lived! :oops:
 
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Tom52 said:
I was born and raised in the small town of Fairfield, Iowa. Then in our early 30's we moved to a Chicago suburb until we retired. After that we relocated and currently live in The Villages Florida. Our home town of Fairfield, Iowa is 1150 miles from our current home in The Villages, Florida. One of my hobbies is an old collector car that we like to take to monthly cruise nights. On the front of the car where the license plate is normally displayed I have a Hawk Head which Iowans recognize as being from the Hawkeye state (Iowa). I enjoy when at the cruise nights, people come up to me and ask, "where are you from in Iowa?" and it leads to a conversation with fellow Iowans.

Two years ago while atttending a cruise night, a fellow was looking at my car and noticed the Hawk Head plate. He looked at me sort of funny and and asked if I was from Fairfield, Iowa. I recognized his voice, and said "Hi Gary". He and I used to work together before we moved to Illinois. We had not seen each other for over 30 years. What a coincidence!

Then last year at another cruise night an fellow walked by my car and asked,
"are you from Iowa?"
"yes"
"what town in Iowa?
"Fairfield"
"No kidding? We also lived in Fairfield but moved away a few years ago, I am not originally from Fairfield but my wife is." "She's around somewhere, let me go get her."
When he brings back his wife to turns out she was in my high school class and I had not seen her since graduation day 51 years ago!

Yes, it is a small world!
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@Tom52
It is a small world indeed!
We live quite close to The Villages. My husband attends the monthly car shows! I will tell him to look for your Hawk Head next time he goes there!🙂
 
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