Coincidences - running into people from your past...

sunflower27 · 23-02-2011 02:29PM #1

Had a very strange morning today. had to go to Dunnes to get a few things but was weighing up if i should leave it till tomorrow.

I decided as i was up and in town I'd just go. So there I am at the checkout when I hear someone behind me call my name. My name is very unusual so I immediately turn around and behind me is an Irish girl i lived with for a while in London before I moved to Ireland at the end of 2000.

She said OMG, I never imagined you'd be still in Ireland after all these years (am from Australia). God, it was so surreal.

I dont live in a major city and the reason she was in the place I live is because she married a guy from here in 2007 (she met him in London).

So we've swapped numbers and are catching up next week.

Anyone else met anyone totally out of the blue from their past?

chin_grin · 23-02-2011 02:31PM

sunflower27 wrote: »

Anyone else met anyone totally out of the blue from their past?

Myself when I see my reflection in water......

....think about it.

liah · 23-02-2011 02:32PM

It's not really 'meeting' in the conventional sense, or particularly as dramatic, but yesterday I finally got 'round to deleting an ex from my contacts after months of no contact.. the second I go to right-click > remove from contacts, he instant messaged me. :eek:

Coincidences tend to follow me around anyway, though, I've lost track at this stage.

bungler · 23-02-2011 02:36PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Myself when I see my reflection in water......

....think about it.

That's weird every year around the end of December i keep seeing this oul hairy lad at the end of my bed and the pervert keeps dressing up in this red suit that is way to small for his big gut

phasers · 23-02-2011 02:38PM

Everytime I run to the shop for milk in my ugly tracksuit with my hair all messy I end up meeting someone I used to know.

chin_grin · 23-02-2011 02:39PM

bungler wrote: »

That's weird every year around the end of December i keep seeing this oul hairy lad at the end of my bed and the pervert keeps dressing up in this red suit that is way to small for his big gut

Not really sure why you quoted my post, but I can assure you I only do it for 'research'. And when you're finally asleep I give you a wet willy. With my actual willy.

(may not be true).

Loopy · 23-02-2011 02:39PM

phasers wrote: »

Everytime I run to the shop for milk in my ugly tracksuit with my hair all messy I end up meeting someone I used to know.

On a daily basis then?

ger vallely · 23-02-2011 02:39PM

1995 in Amsterdam train station with my boyfriend. We were heading back to Ireland after a couple of months working over there. We were so broke,hungry and quite scruffy. He said 'if only I bumped into C,haven't seen him in years but he would sort us out.' I asked what C looked like,he described him and I then asked 'Is he like that guy over there?' And yep,you've guessed it -it was C himself and he did help us out. It had been about 4 years since they had met up, in England not even Holland. in a club in Amsterdam a few years later with a friend. I said to her 'this is the type of club you'd expect to see J in.' No joke-next thing he walks down the stairs in the club. amsterdam is just that type of place I guess.

phasers · 23-02-2011 02:40PM

Loopy wrote: »

On a daily basis then?

Who goes to the shop every day?

chin_grin · 23-02-2011 02:41PM

ger vallely wrote: »

1995 in Amsterdam train station with my boyfriend. We were heading back to Ireland after a couple of months working over there. We were so broke,hungry and quite scruffy. He said 'if only I bumped into C,haven't seen him in years but he would sort us out.' I asked what C looked like,he described him and I then asked 'Is he like that guy over there?' And yep,you've guessed it -it was C himself and he did help us out. It had been about 4 years since they had met up, in England not even Holland. in a club in Amsterdam a few years later with a friend. I said to her 'this is the type of club you'd expect to see J in.' No joke-next thing he walks down the stairs in the club. amsterdam is just that type of place I guess.

You were on Sesame Street?

orourkeda · 23-02-2011 02:41PM

Did you ever lick a polish lapdancers arsecheek and see her in the street a couple of days later? Rather embarrassing

Loopy · 23-02-2011 02:42PM

phasers wrote: »

Who goes to the shop every day?

I was insinuating you dressed like a knack bag every day doll..

sunflower27 · 23-02-2011 02:42PM

phasers wrote: »

Everytime I run to the shop for milk in my ugly tracksuit with my hair all messy I end up meeting someone I used to know.

Haha. Thank god I was looking OK

Have been known to do the Dunnes run not looking my best as it is only a few minutes from where I live. Been caught out a few times, but it's that livin' on the edge feeling you get taking the chance...;)

chin_grin · 23-02-2011 02:42PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Did you ever lick a polish lapdancers arse and see her in the street a couple of day later? Rather embarassing

I read that as "kick". I'm getting my threads mixed up again!

phasers · 23-02-2011 02:44PM

Loopy wrote: »

I was insinuating you dressed like a knack bag every day doll..

Thanks for clearing that up. How hilarious.

WoollyRedHat · 23-02-2011 02:45PM

phasers wrote: »

Who goes to the shop every day?

The milkman. Gotta have fresh milk.

CluelessGirl · 23-02-2011 02:50PM

When I was 16 I went to Barbados on holidays. There was a guy at the hotel who did security and who used to give my parents deck chairs for the beach.

About 7 years later I was at an RnB night in Temple Bar Music Centre and I met the guy there! It was so bizarre. There was this hand shake that they all do in Barbados and he greeted me with that!

He had since married an Irish girl and was over here.

Small world..............

TeddyTedson · 23-02-2011 02:50PM

I always see my old primary school teachers walking about the place. They look the exact same as they did when I was in school. Kinda of freaky.

thebigbiffo · 23-02-2011 02:51PM

sitting outside a pub in koh samui in thailand when about 6 people i know from my hometown came walking down the street. we were amazed at the time...but looking back, there's nothing amazing about it at all. a hooker cant squeez out a ping pong ball over there without hitting an irish lad.

prinz · 23-02-2011 02:51PM

Was walking down Grafton St a few years back and was telling the OH a story about an incident that happened about 5 years before that. About 2 minutes later, bumped right into the fella from the story. Hadn't seen him since the night of the story.

Another guy I knew in the U.S. from about 2005, was in Dicey's one night with some friends, went to the bar, ordered a pint, taking a sip, look up at the lad next to me and there he was. Here on holidays.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2011 02:51PM

Used to live in a little village in east galway and ,oved when I was 12, didnt really see any of the lads again. 13 years later I'm walking through Yonkers NY at 3 o'clock at night and get rugby tackled by one of my old school chums whom I hadnt seen since I left.

Hannibal Smith · 23-02-2011 02:55PM

chin_grin wrote: »

You were on Sesame Street?

lmao

:D:D

AnonoBoy · 23-02-2011 02:58PM

Once at this thing years back I met a person.

Then years later, at another thing, I met them again.

Mad.

Loopy · 23-02-2011 03:02PM

phasers wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that up. How hilarious.

Jaysus, who pissed in your cornflakes?

chin_grin · 23-02-2011 03:04PM

Loopy wrote: »

Jaysus, who pissed in your cornflakes?

Probably the milkman he owes a bit of bob to.

Pauleta · 23-02-2011 03:15PM

I was on the dart yesterday and seen a scumbag that used to be from my locality. He said hello to me as he got off despite the last time i seen him was a night where him and his mate kicked the head off me for my cans when we were young. I remember that night i was sitting on a wall just after, talking to my mates saying that i will win out long-term because the chap will be riddled on gear when he gets older. Anyway he looked and sounded like a junky yesterday. Win

phasers · 23-02-2011 03:15PM

Loopy wrote: »

Jaysus, who pissed in your cornflakes?

Nobody, why?

Canard · 23-02-2011 03:40PM

Not a person from my past, but when I was in Orlando in December, I saw a guy from my class. I saw him three times in total in pretty different places; I know theres a lot of things to see/do there but all on the same day as me? :P It was pretty crazy, I didnt know he was going to be there.

Cheeky_gal · 23-02-2011 03:45PM

sunflower27 wrote: »

Had a very strange morning today. had to go to Dunnes to get a few things but was weighing up if i should leave it till tomorrow.

I decided as i was up and in town I'd just go. So there I am at the checkout when I hear someone behind me call my name. My name is very unusual so I immediately turn around and behind me is an Irish girl i lived with for a while in London before I moved to Ireland at the end of 2000.

She said OMG, I never imagined you'd be still in Ireland after all these years (am from Australia). God, it was so surreal.

I dont live in a major city and the reason she was in the place I live is because she married a guy from here in 2007 (she met him in London).

So we've swapped numbers and are catching up next week.

Anyone else met anyone totally out of the blue from their past?

What's your name ha

Cheeky_gal · 23-02-2011 03:48PM

Seen the ex a while back, well I didn't see him himself but I saw his car, so I parked right next to it and I wrote on the dirt on his car P R I S O N E R

This didnt actually happen i'd love to do it tho

AnonoBoy · 23-02-2011 03:55PM

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

This didnt actually happen i'd love to do it tho

Why?

Coincidences - running into people from your past...

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