Just finished reading an Oliver Sacks (Awakenings etc.) book. Turns out he was cousins with Al Capp (lil Abner).
In my personal life I've :
- scored a share apartment after it turned out my potential housemate used to go to my brother's cafe in Wagga Wagga.
- chatted with a customer I'd known for years at a charity store I worked at. Turns out her grandchildren were friends of my nieces in a small country town hundreds of miles away.
- got off a bus from Mt Fuji and minutes later bumped into a Japanese housemate I hadn't seen in years. I also had a workmate near my seat on a flight there one time, seeing her days later on a bus to a temple.
and YOUR small world stories?