Wednesday, March 10, 2010

"It's a Small World" is not just a Disney ride

I always love experiencing or hearing about bizarre coincidences or small world events. I wanted to share some of my own and will share more as they come up.

*In 2002, my husband took my mother-in-law to a Judaica store in West Rogers Park. The salesman found out that she lived in Cleveland and started talking about how he knew a family in Cleveland. It turned out that he was roommates with my brother-in-law at Yeshiva. A few months later, we were at a family friends’ house and the same guy walked in. He was also friends with their son!

*When I was working at my medical billing job, a patient’s name came up over and over. After I moved, I saw the same name on Facebook, as someone a friend of mine is friends with. I’ll never reveal names for this because of privacy reasons, but it was one of those names that is such a rare combination and the location was the same. It was amusing more than anything else.

*When I started my new job, I ended up talking to a girl who said she grew up in my husband’s old neighborhood. When I asked her if she knew him, she said she went to prom with him!

*I also discovered that I went to the same high school as another girl I work with. It made me feel old when she said her graduation date, but still, what are the odds?

This is all I could think of for now. I’m sure more will definitely come up!

1 comment:

Caroline said...

When I first posted a picture of Neil and me on facebook, a few people had interesting responses: one friend of mine had gone to college with him, and another had tried to fix us up two years ago!