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

[Pudos]

On a bus in Iceland (not the mum's gone to one) touring round and the bloke who had sold me a washing machine the week before in a shop in Hove got on.

 

[Brighthelmstone]

Disneyland Paris, was sitting in the restaurant and spotted my boss across the room. Had to go say hello as he was supposed to be on sick leave with flu! Got a decent rise that year, no idea why

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Not the place ,but more the person

Ex-step mother at Old Trafford cup game 92 ish

 

[Birdie Boy]

When I was about 12 , we were on hoilday in Cofu and we bumped into my mums boss

I hope she had booked time off and not taking a sicky.. Also, do they not talk to each other at work. "Boss, I want to take two weeks of in August" "I'm off then, going anywhere nice?"

I went to Vegas for a wedding and went on a different day to the bride and groom. We just said that we would meet up once there but made no specific arrangements. Walking through Miracle Mile my wife wanted to go into a Pandora shop.inside was a mate from my local who was drunk at 10am as he had just won £500! We had no idea each other were going to Vegas. Walked out of the shop and bumped into the bride and groom.

Another occasion was very strange. On holiday on the beach in Majorca and started talking to a couple next to us and they live in Coventry where my wife is from. Turns out when my wife was 3 and lived in Coventry this woman lived in the same street and used to play with my wife's older sisters 22 years earlier!

 

[Renegade1]

Got on a plane ready to return from New York.Woman next seat but one to me was an old teacher from high school.
(To my horror)

 

[Wilko]

This has happened to me loads, I’ve bumped into people I know in Majorca, Sydney, Ibiza plus a student I taught walking around the lakes in Solvenia and a mate in a bar in Malta. All random.

 

[essbee1]

Staten Island Ferry, NYC. They were getting off as we were watching it come in. Even more bizarrely - they had told me a few
weeks previously they were off to the US (to New Jersey) and I'd said jokingly - 'maybe see you there then'! But we weren't
mates as such and so I thought nothing more of it.

 

[getz]

In 1967 in Stockholm took a girl to dance in a club. Dancing in front of me was a good mate of mine. So surprised he never mentioned he was going over to Stockholm too.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Funny that Phil

I met one of your old work colleges who said he saw you at the Eaton. project and try as much as he could you kept following him and talking to him..

Wasn't a Serco chap, more like an old RAF oik, as you will probably know

 

[Mr Bridger]

Specsavers

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Your mum and dad's bedroom. I wasn't expecting your dad home so early...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I hope she had booked time off and not taking a sicky.. Also, do they not talk to each other at work. "Boss, I want to take two weeks of in August" "I'm off then, going anywhere nice?"

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"

 

[Jesus Gul]

Osaka subway

 

[Peter Grummit]

Hustling for a taxi at Amman airport in Jordan, bumped into an old work colleague who was doing a project out there and meeting his wife who was visiting. He took us to a cracking Lebanese restaurant the following night.

Got on a ski chairlift in France and realised we were sat next to the daughter of friends in Lewes.

 

[KVLT]

On a bus in Iceland (not the mum's gone to one) touring round and the bloke who had sold me a washing machine the week before in a shop in Hove got on.

Similarly on the ferry to France we bumped into a couple from Market Harborough who sold us a fireplace the week before.

 

[Coalburner]

Was tapped on the shoulder getting off a paddle wheeler in New Orleans and a voice said "What are you doing here?". It was a woman who lived three doors away, who I vaguely knew

 

[Leighgull]

Oo-oo...pick me, pick me...

I was on the off ramp from LAX , driving a hire car..just got onto the freeway and into a jam when I hear this bus next to me honking his horn and saw the driver gesticulating at me. I wound down the window and realised the guy driving the bus was a lad I was in class with in my school in Liverpool! Peter King...his cousin is the Bass player (woody) from Madness btw.

What was even more mad was that I lost my cherry to his sister in 1987!

The other one was, after spending six months on a kibbutz, and being the only Brit there I got off a ferry on the Red Sea and the guy helping passengers off was a bloke I used to play pool with in Liverpool.

Meeting scousers all over the shop shouldn't be a surprise as pretty much everyone under 25 left there in the 80s because of unemployment at home but it's still a long shot to bump into these characters in far flung places. Especially as the two events happened in the same 12 months

I've had nothing like it since.

 

[happypig]

In a bar in Zakynthos, Baz, who I played darts with in the Brewery Tap.
On Honeymoon in Tenerife, Mick, a fellow BT engineer.
On a tube train in London, Alison, who was my team leader at Amex

 

[whitelion]

I went to Saudi Arabia on a contract in 1979. Whilst sorting the desk out I found out the previous incumbent was my best mate when growing up.

 

[Yoda]

2004 Olympics, wandering around the park one day and bumped into the Pole Vaulter from Brighton AC.