Strange co-incidence or what - an Irish story

Well - this one takes the cake in that it was a long distance away. I started a job, & the lady, was showing me around, explaining what was what, & we were both doing - her showing & me trying to see if I can do - ... stuff like that. This lady who turned out to be the older of two younger sisters of my best friend in high school.

Wow, I hear stories like this and I find them very touching. They always bring a smile to my face. I can't think of anything like this off the top of my head thats ever happened to me, but I did want to say thank you for sharing this with us all. It made my day.

That is a pretty awesome story. I can't think of anything right now that would go along with this. But I wanted to say that I think that was pretty great. Obviously those women were supposed to meet up again. I don't believe that it was coincidence. They were mean to meet again. :)

It brings a smile to my face. It's amazing how small the world really is!

yes i do and it is just as unbelievable .I was brought up and went to school in England ,I emigrated to the USA when I was 19.many many years later we were visiting Audoubon zoo in new Orleans with the kids when I heard someone speaking with an english accent and wondereed where they were from ,surprise when i approached the other couple the woman looked strangely familiar so I spoke to them ,would you believe we went to school together in the same town !unbelieveable but it realy happened!

A good story. Must have been fate.

What a nice ending to a great story. I'll bet her mother was so thrilled. I ran into a man and a woman one time at a local coffee shop. They were older and sitting reading and drinking their coffee in an area with chairs and I tend to prefer to sit there if I can so I asked if I would be intruding if I sat in one of the chairs. They both said "oh no please do". We started talking, they commented on their last name which happens to be my grandfather's last name and it's fairly unique. We began to talk and low and behold I was speaking to his cousin whom he'd lost contact with. They had just found each other weeks before my grandfather had passed away but I had never known it. The man gave me his business card and told me to keep in touch as we're "family". It was kind of neat.

In Greece a few years ago, I went to visit my uncle and he took me to an orchid he had just bought a few hundred kilometres from his house. While we were at the orchid the neighbour (who he had never met before) came out and started talking to us - said that she had relatives in Australia (where I am from)it ended up that her sister was a neighbour of ours back in Australia.

I think there are certain people we are destined to meet in life. I have had similar experiences. Like my brothers friend who showed up at the same party as me. Although my brother lived in Las Vegas and i live in Oregon. My brothers friend came to visit a Friedan here in Oregon. We got to talking and I asked him where he was from and he said las Vegas. To make a long story short. He is my brothers close friend. There are other similar stories too.

Good for them. It's a small world after all.

Wow. I love stories like that. I do not have any personally but my friends have a pretty sweet one, also involving the Emerald Isle. They did not know each other. They both went on a tour of Ireland (seperate tours same time frame) and went to the "Our Lady of Knock" shrine and prayed to our lady to help them find a suitable mate. They did not meet each other. came back to the states and went along with their lives. Then they both joined a Chat Group and started corresponding and found that they had a lot in common. They arranged to meet in person, he prayed and expressed to God that should she have a handicap it was alright with him (?) She got off the plane and he became aware that she is deaf. They did not know until after they were married for sometime that the other had prayed to Our Lady of Knock at the same time, possibly even passing each other at the shrine. there are more amazing stories within this one, but I forget exactly how they go.

My father is like that. He can go anywhere in the world it seems and run into someone he knows. When I was in high school, we ran into my godmother at Disney World when we went to the hotel they happened to be staying at (unbeknownst to us) because my mother wanted to explore. We were driving home to Boston from DC once and looked over at the car driving next to us on the freeway and it was a coworker. I went to summer camp and happened to see my tentmate writing a letter to my much older cousin and her husband asking about their dog! Turns out they were neighbors. When I went to introduce her and her father to my dad at parents' weekend, it turns out the two knew each other too! They had been paired up in a golf match in Maine many years before. Very bizarre. And the lady that came to my parents's house this past November to do the hair for my sister and me and the rest of her bridal party was the daughter of someone I went to school with. The mother was part of the program for older women going back to school to get their degree and we'd sat next to each other in several classes and been study partners as well. It really brings new meaning to "It's a small world," huh?