Todd Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Been looking for a car for the past couple of weeks to run around in and spotted a nice looking GTV with the cup kit on it up North and starting speaking to the seller. Anyway, turned out I missed out as someone else put a deposit down on it So, found a nice Altezza RS200 instead, also up North and I jumped on the train to pick it up. Ended up sitting across from this bloke reading an EVO mag, said "hello" and that was about it, 10 mins from my stop he asked where I was off to, "pick up a car" I said, "really! so am I" Asks what car I'm buying so we talk about it for 5 mins, then I ask him which car he's getting and he said "GTV with a cup bodykit" Turns out it's the same car I was interested in, what's the chances of me sitting next to him as he was on his way to pick it up Small world indeed. PS, RS200 is great, way better than the GTV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Been looking for a car for the past couple of weeks to run around in and spotted a nice looking GTV with the cup kit on it up North and starting speaking to the seller. Anyway, turned out I missed out as someone else put a deposit down on it So, found a nice Altezza RS200 instead, also up North and I jumped on the train to pick it up. Ended up sitting across from this bloke reading an EVO mag, said "hello" and that was about it, 10 mins from my stop he asked where I was off to, "pick up a car" I said, "really! so am I" Asks what car I'm buying so we talk about it for 5 mins, then I ask him which car he's getting and he said "GTV with a cup bodykit" Turns out it's the same car I was interested in, what's the chances of me sitting next to him as he was on his way to pick it up Small world indeed. PS, RS200 is great, way better than the GTV and you never said "don,t bother mate its a wreck":D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Whats "up north" of scotland? north pole? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Whats "up north" of scotland? north pole? Aberdeen Fans! O wait i mean sheep, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcAB10 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Aberdeen Fans! O wait i mean sheep, Hey! we ain't no sheep! lol and inverness is north.. so there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaGSi Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 That is unbelievable! The mrs had a 'small world' incident the other week. She found a wallet outside our local supermarket and called the guy as his business card was in it. She gave him our address to come and pick it up and he couldn't believe it, he lived in our house for 9 years. He sold it to the family we bought it off! Weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Not bad! I've got an even better one though... (I did post on here about it at the time) There's another forum I'm on (not a web forum like this, it's a Newsgroup), I've been on there since 1998. This other guy, who's been posting on there even longer than me, asked if I'd do him a favour and get some tickets to see New Model Army, who were playing in Portsmouth where I live. Apparently he doesn't have a credit card or any method of paying for the tickets. So I agreed to buy the tickets and also buy one myself and go with him to the gig. On the day of the gig he gets the train from Bournemouth and I meet up with him. As it's still early,we go for a beer before the gig. So, while chatting to this guy, who I've vaguely known on the net for years, it turns out that we both grew up on the Isle Of Wight. So I was like "No way! Whereabouts?" He says "Cowes" "Ha, that's where I'm from." He says "Oh, you'll know Sun Hill then?" By now I was getting freaked out ... "You've got to be kidding, I used to live in Moira House flats on Sun Hill" He looked as amazed as me. He said he used to live in Moira House, Flat Zero (how many blocks of flats even have a flat numbered Zero?) Guess what number flat my family lived in? Yep; Flat Zero. What are the chances of that? It turned out that his family must've been the family that moved into that flat after my family moved out. He definitely wasn't pulling my leg either, he was able to describe the place exactly, like how the kitchen was on a raised floor one step higher than the rest of the place. It was bloody spooky!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathew Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 ive got an even better one (although it happend to a mate and not me, but ended up front page news of the local rag. thats how exciting it is where i live) a few months back my mate found a purse in a bar one evening whilst working his shift there. in it was £200, various cards, a mobile phone and pics of babies (the owners kids presumarably). he phoned a few numbers on the phone until he tracked down the womans address. so over to her house he goes to return it. resulting in one happy owner. fast forward 2 weeks and the same mate is walking to work from the other side of town and stumbles across a purse in the street. pics it up and on further investigation discovers that it was the same purse he found in the bar 2 weeks prior! again gets in touch with the same woman and returns it. careless purse woman is so amazed by this coincidence she phones the local rag offices to 'stop the press!!!' and to 'hold the front page!!!' many people never lose purses or wallets. those who do rarely get them returned. to lose a purse twice and to have it returned twice is lucky. to have it returned twice by the same guy in two completely different places is quite unbelievable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I think mine's better A bloke from Hampshire and a bloke from Dorset know each other for years, eventually meet and it turns out that 30+ years ago they used to live in the same flat on the Isle Of Wight. That's more unlikely than a bloke twice finding the purse of some woman in his town who keeps losing it - isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Right here is mine, though it is not as good as the others, it is forum related. I signed up on this forum & then in one of my threads I mentioned I worked for Deloitte in IT for 5 years. One of the members gets in touch with me to say he is working for Deloitte & is a member here! He joined the firm when I left a couple of years back. An to top it off, the law firm I work for have brought some office floors in The Pinnacle (Milton Keynes). Only 1 other company also uses this building... yep you guessed it Deloitte! An the forum member works there! Okay it is rubbish but still I'll get my coa...sod it I'll go to sleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathew Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I think mine's better A bloke from Hampshire and a bloke from Dorset know each other for years, eventually meet and it turns out that 30+ years ago they used to live in the same flat on the Isle Of Wight. That's more unlikely than a bloke twice finding the purse of some woman in his town who keeps losing it - isn't it? ok il give you that one. i have got a similar story (sort of) Early 2005 and i get a message off a girl on faceparty.com going by the name of crazylil (real name leanne). Now usually a first message would go something like 'hi, how are you' etc but this girl just messaged me 'hi, are you going to magaluf this year?' strangley enough i was. even more strange was that this girl was stunning and lived about 70miles away. later that day i asked my mates had they been on the wind up to me online pretending to be her and they just all laughed. That was pretty much the confirmation i needed to realise it was a wind up. However, over the next few weeks the msgs continued. i just ignored them. Fast forward to august and the magaluf holiday. it was about the 3rd evening into the holiday when we returned to back to the hotel after a night out. sat on the balconys and cracked a few cans open. looked down and noticed my mate stu walking across the pool area with 2 attractive girls. One of my mates shouted down something about stu having genital warts to which one of the girls replied with something like 'ive already sucked him off and didnt see any' (classy bird!) the accent was clearly a valleys accent so we all found some common ground to get the convo going. up in our room then we were all chatting and it turned out these girls were from nelson.............where had i heard of that place before???? ask her here name....leanne!!! The next 5 mins consisted of plenty of 'no f**king ways!!' and more 'no f**king ways!!!' this was the leanne that had messaged me on faceparty earlier that year. apparently she had asked me if i was going to magaluf as she had seen some pics on my profile of my previous holidays there and her and her friends would go there each year. still in contact with her to this day and everytime we see each other that story crops up without fail.* *she also found out later that night that i didnt have any genital warts either;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harris25 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 so why do they call her crazlil? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathew Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 so why do they call her crazlil? you know what iv never actually asked her that. im assuming its something to do with her being a bit of an extravert. no idea about the 'lil' bit though. (when i say im not sure about the lil bit im not implying that shes big) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harris25 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 hmm shes probably a bunnyboiler is what i would gether. Good fuck then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathew Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 hmm shes probably a bunnyboiler is what i would gether. Good $#@! then? she werent bad but by the end of the holiday most of my mates had been through her aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harris25 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 good times. megamuff is a good holiday but newquay is the bomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Right here is mine, though it is not as good as the others, it is forum related. I signed up on this forum & then in one of my threads I mentioned I worked for Deloitte in IT for 5 years. One of the members gets in touch with me to say he is working for Deloitte & is a member here! He joined the firm when I left a couple of years back. An to top it off, the law firm I work for have brought some office floors in The Pinnacle (Milton Keynes). Only 1 other company also uses this building... yep you guessed it Deloitte! An the forum member works there! Okay it is rubbish but still I'll get my coa...sod it I'll go to sleep On a related note, I wouldn't have my current job if it wasn't for Supras.... In 2003 I went on a mkivsupra.net organised trip to Amsterdam. On the trip me and my mate ended up sharing a €200/night hotel room with Suprash and his mate. Couple of years later I get made redundant from my job of 16 years. I take a year off but 18 months after being laid off I'm still out of work. Then I see a job advertised at Visa which looked good but the recruitment agency won't put me forward for it because I don;t have any mainframe skills. (I have everything else required in the advert) I remember this Ash guy from here and the Amsterdam trip and remember him mentioning that he worked at Visa, contracting. So I contact Ash asking if he still worked there and if he could get my CV to HR. He gets me an interview. I start work there as a contractor. Without even asking, the company pay me £32/day (10%) more than Ash because I got the job outside of an agency. After 12 months there the company decides to get rid of all their contractors and invite us all to go Permie, or sod off. Me and Ash both apply for the last Permie job in what we do. I get the job and Ash leaves. Felt a bit bad about that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I have one! About 7 or 8 years ago, when I used to work for Logica installing mobile phone stuff, I was assigned a 10 day job in Zambia. Myself and the project manager flew business class from Heathrow but we had to change planes in Johannesburg. So, I was sitting the in the business class lounge in Jo'burg feeling quite addled from my 12 hour flight and a girl comes up to me and says 'James?' and I look up and it's my cousin Vanessa who I had not seen for 6 years when she was over in the UK. It turns out this was her first day working at the airport! So, the ONLY time that I'd flown anywhere near africa I happen to bump into my cousin, who has just started working at the airport, in the exact place I was waiting for the 60 minute layover. I still think that's amazing to this day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 so why do they call her crazylil? Always disappointing when people name themselves crazy this or crazy that on myface - they invariably aren't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 My only personal moment away from forum was when I was about 20,telling the guys about this girl i was ermm....seeing .... mentioned it all they said ohh she sounds filthy. So she turned up with her mates to mine before we all gonna go out for night together. One of my mates walks outside for a fag,something didnt seem right so another mate walked out and came back in laughing...I walked out to find out what was so funny..... It was his cousin and I didnt know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evinX Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 id of said it was a very small train... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=154629&highlight=small+world 2 workmates go out for a game of golf, its a great day and they are really enjoying their game. After a few holes they start catching up on a couple of ladies in front. They have to delay a lot of their shots to avoid hitting them and they start to get a little impatient. After a few more holes one of the guys decides he is going to go up and ask them if they can play through. He comes back a few mins later and says to his mate.. "your never going to believe this, i went up and spotted my wife was one of the ladies and the other one is my mistress. How unlucky can you get" The other guy decides that he will go up and ask instead to try and avoid any hassle. A few mins later he returns and says to his mate.... "Small world" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Back in 2002 I owned and ran a guest house in Kingussie in Scotland (its 40 miles south of Inverness) and we had a group of golfers stay with us for a week. Two of them came down with colds and I took care of them, roaring fire in the lounge, tot of whiskey to help the chicken soup go down etc. In 2005 I was working in Specsavers in Herefoord and this fellow came in and as I was serving him we got round to talking about golf and he said how he went up to Scotland and stayed in this lovely guesthouse where the owner looked after them, especially as they caught a cold and were laid up. I told him about where he was and his jaw dropped when he realised I was the fellow he dealt with Small world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaqTRD Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 That'll be me! Abz you need to pop down to MK! the building is coming along really well! Saq Right here is mine, though it is not as good as the others, it is forum related. I signed up on this forum & then in one of my threads I mentioned I worked for Deloitte in IT for 5 years. One of the members gets in touch with me to say he is working for Deloitte & is a member here! He joined the firm when I left a couple of years back. An to top it off, the law firm I work for have brought some office floors in The Pinnacle (Milton Keynes). Only 1 other company also uses this building... yep you guessed it Deloitte! An the forum member works there! Okay it is rubbish but still I'll get my coa...sod it I'll go to sleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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