They say it's a small world but a small world sometimes seems huge

hollydolly

hollydolly

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I was just thinking tonight.. that my ex husband and father of my daughter lives just 0.2 miles from me, literally around the corner , and in 30 years I've seen him just once, walking along the road...
I don't live in a built up city area, where it might be hard to miss seeing people...but obviously his work schedules and mine were very different, and our social calendars also completely different so we've never bumped into each other anywhere in 3 decades aside from once about 10 years ago when I drove past him as he walked in the other diirection.. quick few second sighting. .....so he may as well have lived on the other side of the planet all this time

Funny how such a small place can hide people...

Anyone got any kind of similar experiences with regard to Big or small worlds....?
 

Well yes, I agree, that's what I was saying in my OP about my ex husband and me...despite living just a 5 minute walk away our lives have clearly gone down completely different paths to not have any contact at all aside from that one swift sighting in 3 decades
 

hollydolly said:
No..she has nothing to do with him at all... she hasn't spoken to him since she was a teen, completely uninterested in him or his life...
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I suspect you don't see him because he avoids you and your daughter. A shame...

Most of my memorable experiences are big not small world.

A few years ago I hired a handyman in Florida to help with a project, did not ask his name just paid him cash. After a few days he said "Rob don't you know who I am?". It turned out that he had worked with me in college, 40 years earlier, for the Forest Service in Wyoming, almost 2,000 miles away.

Another time I was in a line to buy some things in Chena, Alaska. I recognized the voice of the person ahead of me, but when I looked at him I did not recognize him. Finally I tried calling him by the name I knew and sure enough it was him. I have worked with him in Utah 30 years earlier and probably 3,000 miles away. He had not aged well, looked really old, probably so did I.

One more, I was on a flight from Geneva to Vienna and the woman who sat next to me turned out to be a neighbor from the US. Did not know her, but we knew several people in common.

So it can happen, just not very often.
 
While vacationing in Honolulu in 1982 ... I decided to get up early one morning and go for a walk. It was a wonderful and peaceful walk. Suddenly, I saw this woman that looked alot like someone from my hometown. I called out her name and she turned to face me. It was her!!! We visited for a few minutes and then went on our business. It was more exciting to run into someone from a small Texas town than being in Hawaii ... that day. It is a small world.
 
As a teenager I was traveling with my aunt from Pennsylvania back to my home in Connecticut. We were traveling by Greyhound bus and changed buses in New York City at the very busy New York Port Authority.

There were thousands of people rushing about and I walked smack into a girl from school and her mother.

I just couldn't believe that all the thousands of people there and away from home we almost walked into each other.
 

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