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[Misc] Where is the strangest place you have ever bumped into someone you know?
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Brighthelmstone
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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
J'les aurai!
Not the place ,but more the person
Ex-step mother at Old Trafford cup game 92 ish
Ex-step mother at Old Trafford cup game 92 ish
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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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!
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.
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.
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Specsavers
The Andy Naylor Fan Club
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Your mum and dad's bedroom. I wasn't expecting your dad home so early... 
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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I hope she had booked time off and not taking a sicky..
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"
Peter Grummit
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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.
Got on a ski chairlift in France and realised we were sat next to the daughter of friends in Lewes.
Similarly on the ferry to France we bumped into a couple from Market Harborough who sold us a fireplace the week before.
Coalburner
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- May 22, 2017
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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
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- Dec 27, 2012
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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.
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
Staring at the rude boys
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
On Honeymoon in Tenerife, Mick, a fellow BT engineer.
On a tube train in London, Alison, who was my team leader at Amex
Yoda
English & European
2004 Olympics, wandering around the park one day and bumped into the Pole Vaulter from Brighton AC.