They say that everyone is connected to Kevin Bacon by 6 degrees. Well today I found out that this was true. I was born in 1958 and so was Kevin. Why, we could almost be twins!
Seriously, have you ever had one of those weird encounters where you are talking to someone and they happen to know someone you know, or perhaps they know someone who is once or twice removed from the person you know?
It’s the old saying, “It’s a small world”.
Recently this actually happened to me. I was sitting in a surgical waiting room passing the time back when Hubby had his second knee operation. I was speaking to a stranger about operations and such and I mentioned that I was getting a second opinion on my eye. (This was back in May before my eye surgery.)
The woman asked me all sorts of questions, the kind you don’t mind answering because you are never going to see this person again, when a woman seated on the other side of me said, “You’re going to see Dr. W. in Boston, aren’t you?”
I just about fell out of my chair. How did she know? She then explained that her husband had some very serious eye problems and had gone to this woman and she had restored his vision!
Another time, I was in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. I was standing in a line on a very hot day, feeling tired and faint, when a woman came up to me and said, “You’ve been to Falmouth, Massachusetts, haven’t you?”.
Again, you could have knocked me over with a feather. “Yes,” I replied, “How did you know?”.
“Well,” she began with a big smile, “You have on this pin,” and she gently touched the seagull pin on my lapel, “and that was made by Mr. Pannis!”
She was right. Years ago there was a silversmith in the town I grew up in who made very distinctive jewelry. This man was a true artisan and his work was never duplicated by another.
So have you had this happen to you?
Hey…yeah. More so with my husband.
But, hmmmm. I was sitting in a restaurant in COS (Colorado Springs) and heard the couple at the next table ask the waiter about Rocky Mountain Oysters, which are fried bull testicles. Also called Calf fries. They were shocked…not unexpectedly, most visitors are. (Not that I have or ever will try them, mind you.) They made some comment about not having them where they are from. I don’t know what possessed me to ask them (this was pre Shaklee days before I became a brazen hussey *wink*) and they said, Enfield CT. I said, WOW…I grew up there. I didn’t know them but found out they go to church with the mother of my very good friend whom I’ve known since the second grade. My friends mom also was my high school gym teacher. WOW!
Great story MB.
♥Pam
Um, but I don’t want to be related to Kevin Bacon AT ALL. 🙁
Yes this happened to me a few times; one particular ocassion, I was working in the health food store close to where I lived at the time, and I was helping a guy out… after a few minutes, he looked at me and said, “You’re an Aquarian.” No question, nothing, just assumed. I was stunned. I affirmed that I was, and then asked how he knew that – all he did was smile at me, wish me a good day and left the store. I still have no idea how he knew that because I don’t wear anything to signify my western sign. Weird.
oh NUMEROUS times!
Most recently was at work I guess. I was talking with one of the new hires, who was prior military. I was asking him where he’d been stationed, and one of the places was in Japan, so I told him I’d lived there with my ex-husband. We talked about how much we loved Japan, and I told him that I had the best boss EVER while I was there, General Myers, who’d recently retired as Chairman, JCS. The new hire laughed and said he’d met General Myers in Iraq and had been very impressed with him. He actually had a picture taken with him which he showed me; I showed him one of me with the general. Small world!
And just to make this the world’s LONGEST comment…Larry traveled to CO once and his friend was telling him how delicious the rocky mountain oysters were. Now…Larry LOVES oysters, so he was looking forward to trying them. His friend, meanwhile, knew exactly what they were LOL! So Larry orders them, and you can imagine his face when the waitress delivered his “order” ROFLMAO!
Actually I just had one of these moments a few days ago. One of my friends lived in Russia for awhile and somehow knows another attorney in my town that worked in Russia in the Peace Corps. Life is tiny, huh!
When I was in England I ran into a work associate at the Tower of London. I had no idea that she was going on holidays at the same time or to the same destination. Actually she was just passing through on a whirlwind tour of Europe. It was quite a coincidence to run into her at that particular day and time and with such a big crowd there. I could have just as easily missed her. We both started screaming we were so surprised.
I run into people who know people that I know too many times. It is a small world. I don’t know if it’s just that we remember more when it happens than when it does not or if these are the times when God truly winks!
Living in Hawaii, it happens all the time. It’s relatively a small island and everyone knows someone that you know.
The strangest thing ever happened to me, was when I were in a hotel in Hollywood and when the elevetor came down and opened, I were front in front with my collegue from my company in Brussels ! You should have seen our faces and “what are you doing here ” We were in different offices in Brussels but the same Hotel in Holiwood, so far away ! yes world is a village.