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What's your most profound "small world" moment? (lemm.ee)

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This refers to when two or more people encounter each other in completely coincidental fashion. You might notice your old classmate from three countries away is now your waiter in a place you had no reason to expect them in, and you might say "wow, what a small world". You might notice two people who you know from completely different spheres miraculously know each other. You might recognize by chance that your penpal has made a cameo at a venue you're at.

But what was your most profoundly coincidental encounter?

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone gave me a book on local birdwatching, I flipped it open to a random page and the page I landed on had my name on it because I had made a report of a rare bird sighting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's amazing. My closest story is similar to this actually. I have a couple of friends who have a photobombing hobby, to the point where they're the equivalent of world record holders for it (and turn it into a charity thing), (what they're known for when they're not spelunking). They know all the hotspots for it and whatnot. It got to the point that facial recognition would go haywire, even though it's only when they're together that they're unmistakable, while, individually, they're quite generic for spottable people. So anyways, a few times I might have been looking at pictures somewhere like a dictionary or maybe footage, and at first if I think "oooh this looks exotic", there they are in the background, peeping out from behind a fence or something. Most endearing part is I made myself my art hobby separately from this or knowledge of it, and it intertwines.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 2 months ago

Oh wow!