Unbelievable!

@DianneN (247186)
United States
December 30, 2017 9:05am CST
It happened again! I was out shopping with my husband yesterday at my, not his, most favorite store in the world, when it happened again. While my husband was struggling to maneuver my large shopping bags around the cosmetic section of the department store, the woman who was helping me with cosmetics led me to the perfume counter of the brand I prefer. I saw a salesgirl there who remembered me from a previous trip, and also remembered my brother. She had given me a free $375 bottle of perfume. She wants to see my brother again when he returns. I will drag him there if I have to when he returns to Florida next week. But the new perfume woman who helped me yesterday was also very nice. It turns out she lives in the complex where we have close friends. She didn't know them, but knows friends from my town back home who winter there. She actually does yoga with my friend and knows her husband and their daughters my boys went to school with! Small world!!! She will tell our friends she met us. I bought two bottles of new scents, and I received a third bottle, a bottle for my husband, and about 30 samples for each of us, gratis! It's not what you know, but who you know! Small world again, too. Love it! Photo was taken on a cruise about 5 years ago somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
30 Dec 17
Seems all you snow birds end up knowing each other, but only in Florida.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
True, but we've run into people we know in Hong Kong, Bermuda, and Arizona.
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@shaggin (72131)
• United States
30 Dec 17
My father in law was telling me a story the other night. Years ago when he was young his family was driving back from Florida and stopped at a resturant to eat and saw a family from our little town eating there too who were on their way to Florida. It was actually relatives of the wife he has now.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@shaggin Holy moly! That is unbelievable!!!! It truly is a small world.
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@AmbiePam (92719)
• United States
30 Dec 17
You can never have too many quality scents.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
I only have three down here, and I'm getting sick of them. lol
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@much2say (55607)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Dec 17
It is a small world - interesting how people can be connected like that! Hubby is always amazed that we always run into someone I know whenever we go anywhere . . . I am seeing that my little son has this same characteristic!
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@much2say (55607)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Dec 17
@DianneN I will say though sometimes I wish I didn't know too many people . . . it calls for too many stops and having to chat .
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
@much2say You have a busy life with your kids. Me, I have all the time in the world.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
It's a nice characteristic to have. It beats not knowing a single soul.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
31 Dec 17
I am sure that was a pleasant surprise.I like that photo.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
1 Jan 18
@DianneN You are welcome.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
It was and many thanks!
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• United Kingdom
31 Dec 17
me too
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
30 Dec 17
No comment.You have it all below.Mine will not make any sense.Then again I do not have any sense.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@DianneN someone has to be here.all serioius.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@amadeo And that would be YOU, of course!
@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
You are hilarious!
@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
31 Dec 17
You have to love gratis especially with lovely fragrances. Such wonderful shopping fun, Dianne. Enjoy!
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
2 Jan 18
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Nothing to dislike about it. Lol! Had such a fun day.
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@snowy22315 (180703)
• United States
31 Dec 17
It's always interesting when things like that happen. You should share your good fortune!!
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Always! Funny you should say that! I made up goodie bags for our guests tonight with many of those expensive perfume samples included.
@yanzalong (18988)
• Indonesia
31 Dec 17
That rarely happened to me.
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@yanzalong (18988)
• Indonesia
31 Dec 17
@DianneN I hope so.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Give it time. It may just happen to you, too!
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@allknowing (136438)
• India
31 Dec 17
That was too complicated to understand who knows who. Never mind
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
3 Jan 18
Lol!
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Dec 17
lol Now that is a good deal. I haven't bought a new perfume in a while. I was walking in Saks and was given a sample. I didn't buy it that day but I called back the store in New York on Monday and they told me what they were sampling that day and mailed it to me for free, now that is service lol
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
3 Jan 18
Saks is such a wonderful store. They send me freebies all the time.
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@Madshadi (8840)
• Brussels, Belgium
30 Dec 17
Poor husband. I know the feeling. I'm joking of course it's always a pleasure to carry our wives' shopping bags
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@Madshadi (8840)
• Brussels, Belgium
30 Dec 17
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
. I know you are NOT kidding!
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@LeaPea2417 (37353)
• Toccoa, Georgia
31 Dec 17
That is very true, it is all in who you know!
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Isn't it?
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• United States
2 Jan 18
The world just gets smaller and smaller. Happy New Year to you and your family
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
2 Jan 18
Thank you and the same to you and yours!
@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Great photo! I'm happy your new friend is so generous. Ah yes. it is indeed who you know in this life. The only similar story I have is when the man working at the Mexican restaurant used to give me a free taco here and there, lol. not the same as a fancy perfume.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Dec 17
Hey, a free taco is a free taco! lol
@shaggin (72131)
• United States
30 Dec 17
That photo is so peaceful. When I saw your title I thought I knew what your post would be about and I was right. So ironic isn't it what a small world it can be. $375 for perfume wow that was awesome to get for free!
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
Thank you. That cruise was a pleasant one, even without me wearing a seasick patch. You were right! I read your other comment, too. I love it when things like that happen. Yesterday's perfume wasn't such a bargain, but it was fun.
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@yugocean (9963)
• India
31 Dec 17
Photo is nice, and the story too; just one thing - free $375 bottle of perfume? How come somebody will give such costly thing for free?
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@Plethos (13581)
• United States
30 Dec 17
Your like kevin bacon, six degrees of seperation.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
That's a good one! lol
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• United States
30 Dec 17
Wow, that weird that you met another person that knows people from your home town. The world is growing smaller by the minute.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
30 Dec 17
It is amazing and happens to us a lot. It happened in Arizona, Hong Kong, Bermuda, and other places. lol
• Northampton, England
31 Dec 17
you look good and smell good!
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@mumu2358 (68)
• United Kingdom
31 Dec 17
I like that photo.
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