Small World!

We always hear the expression it's a small world - mind you it's quite big and you wouldn't be walking around it too quickly! But we have all had those 'small world' experiences - and I think Irish people may have more than other nationalities not least due to the great Irish diaspora worldwide.

I reckon that a lot of posters on here would have a mutual acquaintance without searching too hard. But the thread is about 'small world' experiences you may have had.

I had two notables in the US in 2002. I was on a train from Connecticut to NY when the guy came checking tickets - they do that in the US - and people actually have tickets!! Anyway the guy - a great hurler - was a year ahead of me in school and had been in the US for nearly 20 years!
We had a great chat and a few days later he was on the train again! He didn't check any tickets though - he sat down and we chatted about home for the 45 minute journey!!

On the same holiday I was in Filene's Basement in Boston picking out some fancy shirts!! I heard a voice talking behind me and recognised it as Irish - then Dublin - and then realised I knew the actual voice. I turned around and there was a lad I went to school with!! He was on a course in Harvard!!!

Small world alright!

We went on holidays on year and met a family there, the nest year we went to a totally different resort in a totally different country and they checked into the same hotel as us and we hadn't any contact with them during the year!

I've loads too..

best was last year in an ould kip of a nite club in tijiuana, mexico.

15 dollars in and free drink for the night. Everydrink was laced with tequila and probably poison. Got sick at least 3 times. In the jacks anyway washing me face and 2 lads I drink with when I'm down carrick on shannon direction were Wetting themselves laughing at the whole situation that was meeting me in mexico getting sick after a feed of drink!

I met my next door neighbour at half eight mass last Sunday.

Church is two miles away from house.

Small world.

Loyal2TheRoyal wrote:I met my next door neighbour at half eight mass last Sunday.

Church is two miles away from house.

Small world.

Small Brain ..........

Really?

Jayo lives beside a mate of mine, but the best story about small worlds and me features Bangkok.

Friend of mine from Manchester was in a pub there and after five minutes someone asked her if she knew me.

Living in England, it's always been a challenge for me to keep in touch with the GAA world, but about a while back I befriended a Tipperary man on Facebook and we chatted about the Tipp team and their chances etc a fair bit, last year I went across for the Munster U21 hurling final in Ennis (the one where all the Clare fans got a little cross) and popped into Supermacs in Limerick on the way back to Tipp. There was a lot of blue and gold jerseys in there but I got talking to one guy about the match and mentioned I'd come over from England - it was only the bloke I'd been chatting to online for the last 6 months!

At the Union Conference, after I made a speech mostly concerning the use of horse's heads strategically placed at the foot of management beds, a bloke asked me if I was the same Patrique from Hogan Stand, he was from Dungannon in Tyrone.

He thought my speech was of the same high standards as my posts on GAA sites.