Have you ever "run into" someone you know by chance?

[ChelleBee]

but one summer while we were at cedar point amusement park in sandusky ohio we ran into one of our older daughter's basketball team mates and her family. we all lived in indiana at the time.

[bean24]

I ran into neighbors on my first cruise, they played in the newlywed game and I think of them every time I drive past the park where they fooled around for the first time. A later cruise ran into a classmate, and just this last one my mother in law was approached by someone who goes to classes at her union with her.

 

 

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[Hlitner]

This will be a long and probably boring tale that still amazes us. Back in the early 90s DW and I were on a long cruise in Asia and made a group of Brit friends. In 1996 we happened to be in England (before a cruise) and were staying with a couple we had befriended on that cruise. While at our friends home (outside of London) we tried to contact another Brit couple from that same cruise who also lived in the London area. Despite more then a dozen phone calls to both their home and factory (the man was a successful furrier) nobody ever answered the phone. The following week we went down to Southampton where we were going on the brand new Enchantment of the Seas (its maiden voyage) and got on the ship. That same day we were sitting in a bar and DW heard a booming British voice at a table right behind where we were sitting. Yes, it was the friend we had been trying to find for over a week. It is truly a small world....especially for those that do a lot of cruising.

 

Hank

[ontheweb]

I once met someone who was from my home town. My wife is an art teacher, and his father was her first Superintendent of Schools.

 

I don't know if this counts---a couple on our roll call for a Baltic cruise lived in the town next to my Mother-in Law. We met them before the cruise. Then on the cruise during the muster drill, I found myself standing right behind them.

[blackpool belle]

OH MY!!!! :eek: Maybe Their spouses were on the ship also???????? Awkward is right!!! :p

 

 

No afraid not. Only the Head was married. Deputy head divorced.

[Ashland]

Yes...DIL saw one of her patients on an eastern caribbean cruise with RCI..and we're from the west coast...

[pris993]

Yes, happened to us, on a cruise from Istanbul, ran into a banker we knew. We usually have a table for 2, we had a 4 top, so my DH invited the banker to join us for dinner, thinking one night, what a mistake, banker joined us for the rest of the cruise. Never again.

[obnurse]

I was orienting to work at a new job. I sat in orientation with another girl who was orienting, too. Over the course of a week we realized we were both cruising the same week, the same cruise line, same ship. We ran into each other waiting to board and every day while on board. On another cruise I ran into a girl I work with. We (3 couples) ended up going on an excursion together and dinner a couple times. We had great conversation and really enjoyed each other's company. We had a great time and still talk about it.

[notentirelynormal]

We've had quite a few encounters. On our first cruise I met a guy (on his honeymoon) that I swear I knew. The funny thing was, he was talking to my brother and told him he could swear he knew me. We were both from the Greater Vancouver area and this was the Caribbean. We spent the entire cruise going "have you ever been here?". It became a running joke that we must have been married in a previous life. Everywhere we went, they were there.

 

Another cruise my brother says "Do you know those two girls?". No, I don't think so. Well, he says, they work in the same building you do in Portland, just two floors up. THAT'S why they looked familiar!

 

One cruise I was telling my TA about someone on our cruise who had an motorcycle accident in Cozumel and broke her leg. She says "that was my best friend!".

 

Like I said a few - but the funniest one was with my brother. He is a teacher in LA. He's walking down the hallway and one of his students is there. The utter shock on his student's face that his teacher was on his cruise - well, it was priceless.

 

I have a horrible memory for faces but I still seem to run into people everywhere I go. My son said "mom you must know every one". My daughter says, "no, she doesn't know every one, it's just everywhere we go you know someone!". I think it's true. I picked my brother up at LAX one time and 2 people came up to say hi. We go to a train museum and lo and behold, I know the guy behind the glass and we get invited back. It really is a small world.

[Erik101]

Yes, my sister's brother in law and his wife! We were just hoping they wouldn't ask to hang out with us and thank goodness they didn't!

[dorisis]

Yes, twice. And it was the same person both times. And we have been on more than 80 cruises.

[Du vent dans les voiles]

Years ago, I was flying back from Paris and the lady sitting next to me in the aircraft was a coworker.

[ithaca gal]

Years and years ago, I drove from Ohio to Connecticut with a friend. While standing in a line in Mystic Seaport, I noticed a woman because she was wearing a necklace with a pentagram on it. It really caught my attention.

 

Well .... a few weeks later, after I was back in Ohio, I went into a store to pick up a few things. I glanced up at the woman across the aisle from me and she was wearing that same necklace! It was the same woman!

 

I said, "Uh, did you go on vacation recently?" And she said she had.

 

You should have seen the look on her face when I said "Mystic Seaport"! Of course, she said yes.

 

Weird, huh?

[happybooker1]

Our Second cruise the first formal night DS & I headed to the MDR. Right as we walked in we heard his name being called. Since he has a fairly uncommon name we turned around and there was a classmate from his Jr. High & his family! DS had a "pal" to hang around with the rest of the cruise!

 

This last cruise I had been talking about going on at School (I'm an elementary school Librarian) for weeks before. We were going for T'giving week. The next-to-the-last day before break, I was in the hallway talking about how much I was looking forward to it when a secretary overheard me & exclaimed "Mr. X (our Assistant Principal) is going on that cruise too!" We ran into him & his kids a few times on the ship.

[dunbawn]

Was on an Alaskan cruise and ran into a guy we knew from a car club. We knew his whole family. Basically grew up with them. Worked with his sister, his brother was our mailman.

[screwsmcernst]

Yes, my sister's brother in law and his wife! We were just hoping they wouldn't ask to hang out with us and thank goodness they didn't!

 

 

I wouldn't want to hang out with my BIL and his wife either. :rolleyes: Shhhhh! Don't tell. :D

[ChelleBee]

in 2010 when my husband and i were on the miracle and docked in dominican republic we were shopping in the port area looking for decent cigars and met the parents of one of his employees. they had apparently heard us say something about connecticut and asked us where we were from....we had drinks with them later that evening.

[screwsmcernst]

in 2010 when my husband and i were on the miracle and docked in dominican republic we were shopping in the port area looking for decent cigars and met the parents of one of his employees. they had apparently heard us say something about connecticut and asked us where we were from....we had drinks with them later that evening.

 

 

So these people were on your ship? Or you had drinks with them before you went back?

[crusn2gethr]

My DH and I were tendering to an island along with a lot of others when I hear a lady call out my name. Sure enough, it was a lady I went to college with. I'm always amazed how some people have the ability to recognize people years later. I sure can't do that. I had to come home and look her picture up to make sure who it was. :)

[momofmeg]

Twice on cruises. The first time my husband ran into a a guy who was a workmate. Neither knew the other had taken the cruise. They worked in different departments. The second time was an acquaintance we had only met once when he visited friends of ours a couple of years previously. We just knew he looked familiar and he thought we did too and after talking we realized we had met him at our friends' home. The funny thing was our mutual friends almost booked that cruise.

 

Another time hubby had taken a business trip to England, in the airport in London before the flight home, he ran into friends we knew that had moved away to Ohio from Georgia a year or so before. They were booked on the same flight. The husband is British and they had been visiting his family.

[AJB1970]

Yes, my DH has been recognised twice on two separate cruises.

 

The first was our first ever cruise in 2002 and we'd stopped at Lanzarote, I think it was... We has gotten off the ship to explore and we walked passed a guy on the busy main street who was a member at DHs golf club...they weren't on the cruise though.

 

I thought that was coincidental, but then in 2008 we cruised on Independence of the Seas and I'd been on these boards beforehand and gotten to know a few people. We were on deck one day when a guy stood beside DH and said hello. He was a customer at my DHs business in our local village. What was even more coincidental though, was he and his fiancé were on the same table as some of the group I'd been chatting to on these boards, and because they were table mates, they had been invited to their forthcoming wedding...

 

 

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[cruiserking]

100 years ago when I was in fifth grade I ran into my French teacher Mme Ettinger on the HAL Rotterdam, fortunately it was a friendly encounter and she did not assign any conjugations.

 

On our recent Queen Elizabeth cruise we ran into a mutual friend of a friend and had a terrific time playing Pub Trivia at the Golden Lion Pub.

 

It's an odd thing to run into people you know aboard ships but, often quite fun as well.

 

Jonathan

[screwsmcernst]

It's an odd thing to run into people you know aboard ships but, often quite fun as well.

 

Jonathan

 

 

I agree. I can go to our local mall, and not see one person I know, but put me on a boat going to the Caribbean, and I will meet a person from our neighborhood.

 

I was sitting at the hot tub with my daughter, and a group of kids sat down across from us, and one of them had on a t-shirt form a local school sporting event. I had to ask, and it turned out that they went to the other middle school across the county .

[YoungDubFan]

Never on cruises but plenty of times on land. I live in Ohio but my father lives in Vegas, so I go there frequently. On three separate occasions, I have run into people I know at casinos.

 

While in high school, I was on a trip with my family to San Francisco. We're walking down the street and run into one of our neighbors who was there with her family.

 

I've had many instances where I find people I know on flight leaving or returning to my home airport. Not as surprising I guess since we're leaving or heading to the same place.

 

The weirdest was my freshman year in College. I went to UC Berkeley, which is about as far politically and culturally from central Ohio as it gets. The 1st week of school, I'm in an elevator and someone walks in wearing an Ohio State shirt. I ask them if their from Ohio, Yes. Then what city, what part of the city, etc. It turns out he lived 1 street over from my in my small neighborhood but he had gone to public schools and I was in a catholic school. We had many of the same friends but had never met. I continued to see him around campus even after I had moved out of the dorms.

[A2Mich]

What culture is there in Ohio???

 

Just kidding--a little ribbing from a former Michigander ;)

 

 

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