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Thread ID: 58069 2005-05-20 09:55:00 Wot a coincidence! Greg (193) PC World Chat
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356990 2005-05-20 09:55:00 I'm down in Wellington with my missus to attend her Masters graduation ceremony yesterday . Naturally she met up with some of her colleagues, and one of her classmate friends, whom we agreed to meet for lunch today .

So we meet up at Te Papa, and I introduce myself to her partner - and would you believe who it turns out to be???? No other than Mr Bruce Buckman himself!!! :eek: :thumbs:

What a hoot!

(and what an extraordinarily nice couple they are too!) :)
Greg (193)
356991 2005-05-20 10:34:00 Cool, it's a small world! george12 (7)
356992 2005-05-20 13:55:00 WOW! What a tiny big world..... Bet you have a nice time chatting, Greg.

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
356993 2005-05-20 20:49:00 I'm always fascinated by incidences of the small world phenomena. I was once on a bus in Fiji and got talking to a woman sitting next to me, as you do. She lived in Australia and she asked where I was from. I said a small town in NZ that she would never have heard of. But she had and mentioned her father lived there who it turned out was a friend of mine that I had played golf with the previous Saturday. One degree of separation. Dally (6292)
356994 2005-05-20 20:57:00 Try being over in Sydney, Australia on on board the Sydney by night tour and stopping at another hotel for more people to be picked up and then your immediate next door neighbours walk up the stairs.

There certainly were some sights in the cross!
EX-WESTY (221)
356995 2005-05-20 21:26:00 My father emigrated here from Scotland 42 yrs ago
As part of his job he and mum were invited to dine with the captain of a container vessel that had carried stuff over for his firm.
The captain turned out to be his next door neighbour he grew up with as a kid 50 odd years ago
(Celebrations carried on long after lunch was over!)
bartsdadhomer (80)
356996 2005-05-20 21:35:00 When I lived in the UK I was walking along Oxford St one day after work and bumped into this guy and we both said "Oh sorry" kind of thing and was a friend of mine from Uni in Wellington. mark c (247)
356997 2005-05-20 21:43:00 I was in Fiji a few years ago and met a girl from Sweden (;)) who happened to know (quite well) some good friends of mine, from NZ, who she met in Scotland!

Mike.
Mike (15)
356998 2005-05-20 22:20:00 About 15 years ago I bought a new lawn mower, nothing strange in that you say. Anyway about 1997 I met this family who are now good friends. When I went round to there place I noticed they had the same kind of lawnmower as mine. I asked them where and when they bought it. They told me when and where and it turned out to be the same day I bought mine, and they also said they have had trouble with it. We also had taken them in for a 5hr service on the same day. But something stranger had happened. When he picked his up he said it wasn't his as he checked the S/N and it was differant, and the shop said they didn't know where his one was. When I went home I checked the S/N on mine and found that my lawn mower was there's and it was going perfectly. Remember we didn't know each other at the time.

Trevor:)
Trev (427)
356999 2005-05-20 23:01:00 LOL Trev. So who got the good mower? mark c (247)
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