Its a small world

[cuddlepop]

Today my brother started work after being unemployed for over three years.He hasn't be well both physically and physocologically so I was just as nervous as he was today,only difference being he was 300 miles away in largs and i couldn't be there for him.

Well,to say its a small world is an understatement.The woman who is the assistant matron at the nursing home was the warden before I took over at Uig Youth Hostel on Skye.That was over 27 years ago but it seemed like yesterday. My brother spoke about all the things,people and sites to see and he immediatly could. connect with someone he didn't know in a place and a job he had never done before:eek: .He was even able to tell me the old boy who was our neighbough died last week and I live on Skye but didn't know.
The old boy was 90 and would drink his tea from the water he boiled his egg in but thats another story.

today was a success in more ways than one.:D
Anyone else got "small world " stories

[Wish]

Aww thats a nice story Jacquie, wishing your brother all the best in his new job:cool:

My sister now lives in the states and was out in New York shopping, she was in a Q in the bank and heard a familiar accent (scouser, from Liverpool) when she turned and looked it was an ex neighbour that we grew up with as children:lol: So yeah, the world isn't as big as we think it is

[cuddlepop]

A bet she was suprised:eek:probably the last person she expected to see in the Q at the bank.

My own "small world" experience was when I was waiting for a connecting flight at Gatwick airport.I was only 16 and was flying for the first time.I was starting to get nervous and decided to sit next to a middle age woman who looked"motherly".We got chatting and it transpired that she too was catching the flight to Guernsey .Talk about relief.:)

[connieb19]

I was on a flight from Inverness to Glasgow one time, I got talking to the people next to me and they were going to Glasgow too, all of them lol. :eek:

[Billy Boy]

I was on a flight from Inverness to Glasgow one time, I got talking to the people next to me and they were going to Glasgow too, all of them lol. :eek:
now what would be strange if the people next to you were going to inverness:eek:

[Blazing Sporrans]

My brother emigrated to Seattle some years ago and since he left he has paid for my mother and father to go over and visit on holiday every year. A few years back, they decided to drive up into Vancouver and my father declared he fancied fish'n'chips for his dinner (can't take Scotland out of the boy!). So they cruised around looking for a likely place, rejecting some along the way just by looks. Eventually, they found this diner that specialised in fish dishes and decided that was the spot for them.

As they ate their dinner, my mother was aware of this woman who worked there staring at her. She thought the woman was being a trifle rude, but eventually she approached my mother and said "Are you [Blazing Sporrans] mother?" which left the old dear flabbergasted. It turns out it was a lassie that I was in primary school with in Inverness and she and her husband had emigrated to Canada about 15 years before and opened up the diner. Even after all these years, she still recognised my mother!!!

[Solus]

My aunt has lived in the states for many years now, but recently relocated to another state, nice small town. It first governor in the 18th century (if i recall ) was a chap called st clair and listed as being born in scotland, no guessing where his roots were then, and my step father is a sinclair !

its a small world indeed.

[crayola]

I was on a flight from Inverness to Glasgow one time, I got talking to the people next to me and they were going to Glasgow too, all of them lol. :eek:That's nothing. I was on a flight from Edinburgh to Glasgow last month. Everyone on the flight was going to Birrmingham. :eek:

[quirbal]

That's nothing. I was on a flight from Edinburgh to Glasgow last month. Everyone on the flight was going to Birrmingham.

[lol][lol]

[George Brims]

I was on a flight from Inverness to Glasgow one time, I got talking to the people next to me and they were going to Glasgow too, all of them lol. :eek:

Some years back it used to be quite common to get on the train from Inverness to Wick/Thurso and find everyone around you was going to Skye! They had changed the platforms from which the different trains went out, and some eejit had failed to notice and was forever directing people onto the Kyle train instead of the North one. I remember sitting in Mackay's at the Wick Folk Club and the guest artist not turning up for that very reason.

[freyalass]

We were in Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, a couple of years ago and bumped into a woman that we knew from Lybster! She just happened to be in the same park at the same time and what's more we bumped into her again later on in the evening, which is quite something when you think of all the parks there are and how many people are in any one park at any one time, it's a very small world.

[crayola]

[lol][lol]No kidding! We were all going to Birmingham.