[Misc] Where is the strangest place you have ever bumped into someone you know?

[pearl]

Always strikes me as one of odder expressions in the English language. Always feel like saying "No, I thought I'd try somewhere shit this year"

 

[Lush]

Swimming in the sea just off Biscarosse Plage in France, I bumped into (not literally) a girl I used to work with.

 

[Silverhatch]

On holiday in Swanage in 1968 and a girl from my class at school trots past on the beach.

Strolling through the centre of Amsterdam in 1989 and I bumped into the assistant manage from the Royal Pavillion Tavern, who regularly used to proposition me (and the other good looking ones) when I worked there in 1979.

The funning thng about coincidences is how rare they actually are. If you work out the odds then on average, over time, they occur with the same frequency as one would expect.

Now, who would EVER have thought that? Spooky, that's what I call it!

Was the asst mgr Tony??

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Was the asst mgr Tony??

That's the bloke. Had a flat in Sherlock apartments.

 

[Sirnormangall]

We were in a small honey shop in a secluded part of Mount Etna, Sicily, and my son’s school teacher walked in.

 

[Buzzer]

I was randomly placed next to [MENTION=22473]mac04[/MENTION] at a conference dinner in Ireland a few years back. Neither of us knew the other would be there and there's no way the organisers could have known that we were friends. We're friends from school and sit next to each other at the Amex.

I think he's got a story about bumping into another old school friend of ours on a train somewhere in Eastern Europe.

 

[Insel affe]

Sat in a biker bar in Copenhagen with my ex girlfriend and i hear an English accent you obviously look up, oh holy hell, there stood at the bar was “the cock” (do kids still use that term ?) of my old school and on the last day just 10 years earlier I’d called him a feckin wankeer through the safety of the bus window as it drove off.....

Thankfully he’d forgotten....

 

[Winker]

I joined the army after leaving school. Several years later I was sitting in a Land Rover in the middle of the Canadian prairies when a helicopter landed and one of my old school mates stepped out. A couple of years after that I was sitting in my car on the Dover-Zeebrugge ferry heading to Germany when the guy in the car next to me honked his horn - it was him again.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Sitting in my car in a motorway traffic jam up north somewhere, in the lane the where you are diverted to the other side of the motorway in a single lane. Sitting there for a while. My phone rings. I answer hands free. It’s one of my team. He was sitting in the car behind me and had realised it was me

 

[Algernon]

We were in a small honey shop in a secluded part of Mount Etna, Sicily, and my son’s school teacher walked in.

Cheeky!

 

[Baker lite]

In Sydney in the mid 90s,was coming out of a pub down by the rocks and someone called My name,it was an old school
Friend that was back packing round Oz also..
In a bar in Zante,bumped into an old shipmate who gone on the trott about 6 years previous,He wanted to know if the Navy were still looking for Him,I’d been out for a few years so couldn’t answer his question.


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[Blue3]

Top of a Mountain in Masodonia

 

[goldstone]

Doha airport terminal; on the street in Toronto.

 

[Official Old Man]

Two incidents of people working with me whilst I was in Spain.
1/ Back in England one winter I was going up an underground escalator and a co-worker was coming down in the opposite direction.
2/ Whilst on holiday in Mexico another co-worker was in the room next to me at the hotel. It was a week though before we met.
One other, on a small four seater plane flying out from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon the other couple were from Crowborough (but we didn't know them).

 

[Rogero]

Two incidents, once on a remote beach in Kerala,southern India, my wife and I met another couple walking towards us and he was a friend and work colleague and my wife knew his wife quite separately .
Last year I met my cousin on a plane going to Toulouse and I had not seen him for 10 years.We now see him every few months.

 

[Yes Chef]

Khao San Road, Bangkok. Bumped into my Lewes and District Sunday morning league team mate. Got a bit drunk /etc shortly after in celebration

 

[knocky1]

I saw [MENTION=88]Bob![/MENTION] Running along a road in Essex with a yellow away shirt on. Identified him through Strava. Boring but true.

 

[marcos3263]

In my younger days I was surfing off Fistral beach in Newquay when the waves disappeared and we were just floating waiting for the next break. I then heard an 'alright mate' and a guy I worked with was next to me while I was literally bobbing about in the ocean. I asked 'what you up to?' In surprise and he said 'surfing' funny c***

 

[m20gull]

At the FA Cup final replay I was at the the front of the upper tier of terraces. Some fighting broke out below us. Someone reached up for a hand up out of the way and it was a Pompey fan I was at Uni with.

 

[Weststander]

At the South Pole I bumped into an old school chum Fiennes.