The World Is Really Small
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The World Is Really Small
What are some of the things that have made you realize just how small the world really is? One that I can think of is that one of my friends is a twin, both are boys. Somehow our birthdays came up and come to find out all three of us were born on 3/23/88. It gets better. We were born in the same hospital that was about 45 miles away from my home town. The twins were born 5 minutes apart. One was born at 1:02 and the other was at 1:07 in the afternoon. I was born at 1:18 in the afternoon.
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Mine's a little odd. About 15 years ago we got a call from this woman who said she is my dad's half sister, his parents split up when he was less than a year old and knew nothing of his dad's side of the family. Turns out this woman has 2 sons. One has my first name, the others name is same as my middle name and same as my dads first name. That was really odd I though.
Fast forward to last month, youngest son calls to say the aunt has died, kinda a strange call to get from someone you have never spoken with in your life, we end up talking for about an hour. Turns out we have a fair amount in common, we are the same age, both have had some of the same medical problems, and have some common interests/hobbies. All in all its kinda strange but also interesting.
Fast forward to last month, youngest son calls to say the aunt has died, kinda a strange call to get from someone you have never spoken with in your life, we end up talking for about an hour. Turns out we have a fair amount in common, we are the same age, both have had some of the same medical problems, and have some common interests/hobbies. All in all its kinda strange but also interesting.
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Being in the military makes you realize how small of a world it really is. When I was stationed in Hawaii, I was sitting in the E Club one night and ran across a guy that grew up about a mile from myself. He told me all about my neighbors and the people that used to live in the house where I grew up. I also ran into a kid that I went to grade school with out in the fleet that I hadnt seen since the 5th grade.
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when i was in the Navy, i ran into a guy from high school, also i met a guy at a swedish bus station that i met over a year before, met the yeoman from my sub 2 years after i left it in turkey, met my old engineer in a london train station 5 years after i last saw him, and got a call last year from my old navigator saying someone he ran into knew me also so he got my number form him, about 6 years after i seen him last. also, a guy that worked for me in london, now stationed in milington, ran into a guy who works for my dad and he called me from his cell fone.
those things make the world fell small and the fact i can wake up and have breakfast in ukraine, have lunch and a nice walk in istanbul, then have dinner and go to sleep in bishkek, all on the same day (yes late but still awake!)
those things make the world fell small and the fact i can wake up and have breakfast in ukraine, have lunch and a nice walk in istanbul, then have dinner and go to sleep in bishkek, all on the same day (yes late but still awake!)
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I am originally from Kentucky and when I was 13 in 1981 me and the family went to Florida to see my grandmother and my step grandfather. That was the first time I had seen either of them. Well about ten years later I moved to Ohio to find work cause there is'nt hardly any in Ky. Well I found a job in Grove City and needed a place fairly close so I rented a trailer in a park about 20 miles from there I was living there for about 4 months and I was outside doing something when I noticed my neighbor was working on his that car looked identical to my step grandfathers in Florida. I walked over and we started talking and I eventually say to him "Hey my grand dad Harley had a car just like this when I was a kid and he says I've got a brother named Harley so yep it is a small world He sold the car to his brother in 89
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A few years ago I got a phone call from a friend I grew up with but hadn't seen in about 20 yrs. Turns out we had both been living in the same city for about 5 years. He got my number from my sister ( who lives in British Columbia ) and was visiting a relative in Saskatoon when she ran into him at a shopping mall. Small world or freaky odds?
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From: Durant, OK (SOSU)
I was on vacation with the parents in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. We're sitting above a balcony in some chairs talking and I hear somebody on the balcony below us go "well *** damn...that sounds like Jay Smith".
...One of my dad's best friends happened to be on vacation at the same time as us.
And did it happen once? Nope...Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Nassau. Cozumel, Cancun, Belize City, and St. Maarten. The only vacation we've been on so far that it hasn't happened was in Roatan, Honduras. That was a nice break!
Then I met somebody on a cruise to the Caribbean...a year later I ran into the same person again at a camp 200 miles from my house.
Got to know somebody who was touring a college in Arizona last summer...really nice girl.
At the beginning of this year...went to tour another college in Oklahoma...ran into the same girl touring that college.
Can you say future roomates (how crazy is that, you can be coed roomates now)?
It's the little things that remind you.
...One of my dad's best friends happened to be on vacation at the same time as us.
And did it happen once? Nope...Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Nassau. Cozumel, Cancun, Belize City, and St. Maarten. The only vacation we've been on so far that it hasn't happened was in Roatan, Honduras. That was a nice break!
Then I met somebody on a cruise to the Caribbean...a year later I ran into the same person again at a camp 200 miles from my house.
Got to know somebody who was touring a college in Arizona last summer...really nice girl.
At the beginning of this year...went to tour another college in Oklahoma...ran into the same girl touring that college.
Can you say future roomates (how crazy is that, you can be coed roomates now)?
It's the little things that remind you.
Last edited by RangerPilot; Feb 21, 2007 at 07:02 PM.
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