and we decided to round up some of the best answers:
1.
“My Canadian great-uncle went on a round the world tour with a friend in the early 1950s.
“I was in Japan and ran into a guy from Alaska.
Told him I worked in Alaska years ago for a while.
“I asked what?
He said, ‘that’s me in the background of your picture!’
Still makes me feel weird.”
u/HogSliceFurBottom
3.
“I’m European-Asian and had exactly one American friend when I was young.
Met him online while playing a game and he visited me and everything.
Years later I live in Japan and get to know someone else from the US.
That someone shows me pics of his childhood and sure enough, my friend is there.”
u/Ok_Ninja7190
4.
“On a vacation several hundred miles from home.
Im wearing an athletic shirt with my unusual last name on it.
A tourist behind me says ‘hello, do you happen to know XYZ Mylastname?’
I said yes, thats my uncle!”
u/azure-skyfall
6.
“Met a guy on tinder and we hit it off.
We come from different cities and have no mutual friends, so just found it quite funny.”
u/Deep-Blackberry-7098
7.
The feud was ongoing from 1870 to like 2003 but none of us knew about it.
They got divorced 15 years into their marriage so not too surprising.”
“A friend of mine met a guy at work who had the same first name as her.
They’re now married.”
u/OwlNo1068
9.
“Fast forward several months I’m on a bus coming back from a whole different State.
The bus is relatively empty and there was no assigned seating.
It’s the same dude from the library that one time.
And what does he do?
Sticks his hand out and offers me Cheetos.”
u/ThrowRARAw
10.
“Divorced my husband 36 years ago.
He ended up moving in with another woman immediately and they’ve been together ever since.
Years later one of our daughters got into ancestry.com and started mapping all of our families.
We come to find out the woman he married is actually a cousin of mine.”
30 minutes out, no big deal the woman was glad and I went about my life.”
u/TaalKheru
12.
We grew up together like cousins, he was even a bridesmaid at my wedding."
“I just told him that I’m pregnant for the first time at 34.
So, my mom and her best friend became moms together and are now becoming grandmas together.”
u/musicmaj
13.
“I had an idea of trying to sell T-shirts online, and I sold like six of them.
Four of the sales were from my parents and their friends trying to encourage me.
But, one of them was from someone who would end up becoming my wife.
We are still married today.”
We met at university with zero prior connections."
u/suitcasedreaming
15.
“In high school my friend had a pen that just wasn’t working.
It was the four-in-one coloured pen, and none of the colours were working.
He became more and more visibly frustrated, furiously scribbling in his notebook with each colour yielding no results.
u/lifesnotperfect
16.
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