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

submitted 2 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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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My second daughter saw her middle school French teacher in CDG airport when she (my kid) was on her way to visit Italy with my mom. The teacher was leading a bunch of the students from her school on some school trip. One of the pricey ones my kids couldn't ever go on, lol.

I've had a few things happen that made me wonder about the nature of reality, honestly. Had a ridiculous sex dream about a friend of ours who we hadn't talked to in years and he called the next day (he is not someone I wanted to have sex with) and I also told my best friend I was pregnant in a dream (I hadn't told anyone and this was pre social media) and she called me the next day to congratulate me. Prophetic dreams when I used to record them. I'm not sure any of that stuff is coincidence though.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Move out west to BC from Ontario. My new doctor had same last name as my boss in Ontario, so I'm like do you know any "blah blah" in ontario? He says yeah that's my dad.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago

Small world ia a scam! When I was on vacation in London my father and I heard the "fact" on the tourist bus that you couldn't be on Picadilly Circus more than 43 minutes or so before meeting someone you know. We sat there for over an hour and didn't see anyone.

But then again, we were at an airfield for a pilot meeting earlier during that vacation. And it turned out that the guy who owned that airfield was stationed in Germany at the same town and at the same time my father lived there as a child.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

My now partner for more than 15 years both met face to face (online dating worked for me) in a smallish town in Portugal for the first time (she was living in the UK, I in Germany) and on the first evening we both met former clasmates of ours that we hadn't seen for years, it was kinda wild.

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