I know you!!

[Tim Bennet.]

Was staying on business in a hotel in the south of England when a fat, bald, elderly gentleman came up and introduced himself as the manager and declared we had been at school together. I read the name on his lapel badge but was still none the wiser.

My totally blank expression caused him to regurgitate all sorts of dates, the name of the school and various other details which would have been correct, but still his name meant nothing.

Then he added "I arrived in the third form when you were in the upper sixth!"

I should have replied with a polite 'I'm sorry then, but in that case I would hardly remember you", but instead I blurted out: "Bloody hell, that makes you younger than me!"

He looked miffed.

 

[biggs682]

went to majorca about 10 yrs ago and stood next to a person at checking in desk i had worked with years before , soon as he turned round recognized his big belly

 

[gbb]

Two similar stories...
We were stood in Kos airport some years ago, it was heaving, all the flights were delayed because of fog. Meandering around, i saw the lad who was going out with the girl who lived opposite us Didnt even know he was thereat the same time as us.

One of our suppliers at a previous company told us when he got back from a holidy in New york...he was heading down the escalators in the World Trade Centre. In front were a couple of women....one said to the other..'c'mon, we'll go get some docky'
Docky...fen slang for food, snap, lunch, whatever. He picked up on this immediately (coming from Spalding)...and started talking to them....it turned out one of them was a girl he'd dated years before.

 

[Dayvo]

Back to Australia again.

December last year I was cycling from Sydney to Adelaide. Rocked up at a campsite in Eden. As I was pitching my tent, a car pulled up and two people got out to set up camp next to me.

I heard they were speaking Norwegian so went over to greet them. After exchanging a few pleasantries I found out that they were university friend's of my girlfriend's son back in Norway.

 

[ufkacbln]

MY mother has a telepathic sense that also communicates with others.

Shopping in Peterborough and she goes up on the escalator. At the top she says hello to a woman, and then turns to us and says... "That woman used to go to school in Glasgow with my younger sister - I'm meeting her for coffee in a few minutes to reminisce "

I swear she only said hello - how did she extract all that information and arrange for coffee with a total stranger in less than a second?

 

[buggi]

my mate went to Oz and within a day got chatting to an english girl who, it turned out, lived in the next road to hers. They had both lived there for 20 years and never bumped into each other or got chatting in any way. Took them both to go to Oz to get to know each other. They toured Oz for 3 months together and i think they became firm friends.

 

[Tollers]

OK. This isn't me, but my best mate as a kid who lived at the end of my road when i was growing up emigrated to Melbourne about 5 years ago. Randomly one day he heard his name being called. Turns out it was his next door neighbour from back home in England. Very spooky!

 

[krushavik]

A couple of years ago me and the wife (who was then a school crossind patrol) was having a meal in a local bar in Bali when a young girl walked past and said Hello Mrs lollipop lady. I nearly fell off my chair.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Bumped into someone I used to train with waiting to board a connecting flight in Milan. We were on our way back from Greece, she was returning from Japan and was suprised to see me and even more suprised I was travelling with a (my) child.

 

[tjsc1]

I was on a ride, with my family, in Universal studios, Florida, one of those driving rides, up and down, left and right, when this bloke behind me says 'this is worse than a Taxi ride in London'. Looked behind to see a mate I meet up with for meals near Victoria station.....could not believe it!!

 

[ThePainInSpain]

First Appearances can be deceptive...........

Whilst on honeymoon in the Bahamas in 1993, there was a family staying in a lower grade hotel (snob) whom we nicknamed the 'Clampets'. We tried to avoid them but ended up on the same 'swimming with the Dolphins' trip, but still had little to do with them.

About 5 years later, shortly before Christmas, walking along a street in the centre of Birmingham, an old woman with long grey hair and with a dog on a lead was walking towards us. As she passed I looked at her and she looked at me, and both turned our heads. We stopped and then it suddenly clicked, it was Ma' Clampet from the Bahamas (name dropped again). We started chatting, and what an interesting person. And how much we regretted not having more to do with the family whilst on holiday.
It turned out that the reason they were there was that her late husband had bought a plot of land in the Exumer Islands through some Government scheme to raise money after WW2. This had been her last chance to see it.
It turned out that the island was being developed, and the plot had an Hotel on either side, and was now worth millions.