Small world.

[G&TQ]

My son (6) went to the clinic at his school today. He was chatting with the nurse and mentioned we were cruising spring bread. When she called me to let me know he had been to the clinic and the details she told me about the conversation although he could not remember the ship we would be on. Well it turns out we are going on the same cruise.

 

It is such a small world!:D

[gbcruise]

It is a small world isn't it? Have a wonderful trip! Maybe a small lesson to you son that no matter where you go someone you know may be right around the corner :)

My father, who travels the world, almost always run into someone that he knows, it's always interesting to hear about his travel adventures.

[JustUs275]

I am always amazed when I hear "small world" stories! :)

And I see you are cruising on Monarch - we loved our cruise on her last year; great ship, friendly crew and all around a wonderful vacation. Enjoy!

[mi3stooges]

On my October 2007 Cruise, as I was walking into the MDR, I noticed a familiar face. Being on vacation, I couldn't recall how I knew her. It was my Dental Hygenist!!!

[Merion_Mom]

Yeah, and I was once on a quickie weekend cruise, playing hooky from school for one day, and whom did I encounter in the Compass Deli?

 

One of my (former) students!

 

:eek:

[Eric97123]

I love the spring bread cruises.. :p

[read52]

On our last cruise, I went to a craft activity. I sat down next to a young lady and started talking to her. Since we left out of Baltimore, I asked if she was local and she said yes. I said that I was too and that I was a teacher in a Catholic school. She said her brother-in-law was a teacher in a Catholic school too. She was the sister-in-law of the vice principal of my school.

[JeffandAlison]

On our Majesty cruise in January, who walks up to us but our tablemate from our Navigator cruise in November '09. We were amazed!

[abhb]

We were on the Jewel going through the Panama Canal and some guy comes up to DH and me and asks where we are from. We tell him Cleveland and he said he was from Cleveland. He kepts telling DH he knows him. Finally figure out DH did a community theater play where this guy lives and he saw the play and remember him.

 

Another time we were on the Navigator and this kid has a t-shirt from a local high school. I start talking to him. He told me that he was on the cruise with his whole family including grandparents. Later on that day, I see him with the grandfather. We start chatting and I found out he ownes the company that a friend of mine worked for.

[Venusleo1]

On two seperate cruises I have run into people that I knew and had no idea they were going on the same cruise as me.

 

One of them was a 2 nighter on the Navigator out of Fort Lauderdale and we had muster in the main dinning room and I look over and my co-worker is sitting at the same table as me. Never saw her for the rest of the cruise though.

 

Another time I was on a 3 nighter on Majesty and I ran into a friend and his family at the excursions desk. I had met him when I was a member of a local singles group that he was also a member of. It was a club you join if your single and they host activities all through out the month. Anyways he was on the cruise with his wife and two kids (and I didnt know he was married he had told all of us that he was divorced)... he comes up to me and says please don't mention the singles club :eek: so even though we kept running into each other I could barely make eye contact with him the whole trip.

[funfamilyof6]

There is another family in our neighborhood (kids are friends with our kids) that will be on the same cruise as us, our kids are very excited. We usually cruise from Florida, we are leaving from Bayonne this time...I think when you leave from a home port, you have more of a chance of this happening.:)

[orville99]

On our last NYE cruise, we went into the bar one evening, and ran in to our insurance agent. We've also run into old friends while wandering around various ports. I even had someone who used to work for me a long time ago show up in our elevator on FOS one evening.

[Cruzin-K]

On my four night Sovereign cruise a few years ago I ran into a co-worker of mine (same job, different city). She was there with her whole family. She asked me who I was traveling with and when I told her I'm here by myself her response was "oh, I'm sorry" :confused:

 

Glad she's not my co-worker any more :D

[BrianAlt]

Did you tell her to sign up for the M&M?

[kruzerci]

We were waiting to board the Jewel in Fort Lauderdale a few years back and I made eye contact with somebody a friend I had been at dinner with the night before in Birmingham. We both knew the other was going on a cruise that week but being that it was a 6 night cruise and they usually sail on Princess I didn't give it a second thought. It ended up being fun!

 

It's such a small world running into people you know on such huge ships. We also met another couple on that trip at dinner on the first night and after hitting it off, we realized we lived 10 minutes from each other at home. We've taken two cruises with them since then and go out to dinner at home occasionally.

[scorpluvsdolphins]

This Saturday, I will be on the Navigator and one of my current 10th grade students will be on it also.

[Familygoboston]

This reminds me of a funny story my Aunt tells... She and my Uncle have been happily married 50 years. One day leaving the ship the ships photog says" can I get a photo of you and your wife?" So my uncle whispers, "she's not my wife, she's at home, this is my girlfriend". The photog looked shocked and my aunt near killed my uncle... But I'll bet it's actually happened!!:eek:

[Florida_cruisers]

I have two stories for you - both for the same trip.

 

1. My husband was working on a project with another coworker. He mentioned to her that he will not be available for two weeks because he was going on vacation. He never told her where he was going.

 

While on vacation, which was our Mediterranean cruise he hears someone call his name while were standing in front of the Montecarlo casino in France. Guess who it was? his coworker !!! Coincidently she was on the same cruise as us too. After we saw her in France we saw her once on the ship too. Talk about a crazy coincidence as neither of them ever mentioned to each other where they were going on vacation.

 

2. While I was here on cruisecritic on the message board for our itinerary for the mediterranean cruise I was chatting with someone about sharing a private excursions in Italy. I happen to see that they lived in Central Florida like me. We exchanged emails and while talking she asks me what part of town I lived in - we live 1 mile from each other. Ended up having dinner at a restaurant where we met for the first time with our spouses and later on had dinner at their home too before meeting again in Barcelona to embark on the cruise.

[Kartgv]

Several years ago, at breakfast in a very busy Windhammer on a day with lots of early tours, a woman asked if she could share our table. We were happy to accommodate her and the usual small talk began. My mother at the time was living in a very remote home up in the Sierras with 24 hour in-home care, plus a housecleaning service every two weeks. We soon learned that the woman at our table owned the service that did her housekeeping and that she had actually gone to Mom's home and met her for the first preliminary visit! On our first cruise together, my wife was very anxious to get away and relax after going through a very exhausting year-end audit at her company. The second day of the cruise, she ran into the audit team manager - who was just as happy to be done with the audit! They managed to avoid each other the rest of the cruise. One final story, though not on a cruise. I was a school teacher, so before I retired we could only vacation during summer break. On our honeymoon in Hawaii, after checking into our hotel, walking across the lobby I heard someone yelling "Mr. Ryan, what are you doing here?" It was a group of my students staying at the same hotel.

[ZoeyVictoria]

A favorite family-owned pizza place is so popular with the employees of the agency that I work for that the store closures for their vacations are posted on our electronic bulletin board. Last year I saw that they were going to be closed for a few days and idly wondered if they would be going on a cruise, their favorite vacation. That weekend I took my teenage granddaughter on a girls' weekend cruise and noticed a couple of familiar faces at muster drill. It turned out that their cabin was just four doors down from ours. It is not nearly as much of a "small world" thing when Floridians take weekend cruises close to home, but still a pleasant surprise.

[addicted2]

On our Mariner cruise in January a guy walked past us wearing a shirt from my kids high school. It is the first year the high school is opened and there are only about a thousand kids enrolled.Turns out he lived less than a mile away from us. When we got home our kids new his kids. It is a small world.

[TahoeBob]

It has happened to me three times, First time was on the vision, I was waiting for my wife to meet me at teh captains gig. I was chatting with this guy as he was also waiting for his wife. After a few minutes he says I look familial I live at Lake Tahoe and he lived in reno but worked in carson City at the Costco where I shop.

 

second and third was on teh Monarch when she was in LA.

First I was in the hairy legs contest and when the CD was asking everyone there name the guy next to me said his name was Bob from Lake Tahoe, then I say but I am bob from Lake tahoe. Turns he lives about 10 miles from me.

 

on the last day dw and I were sitting in a lounge waiting to get off the ship, another couple sits down next to us so I strike up a conservation, I ask them where they were from and they say Tahoe, turns out they owned the napa auto part store about a mile from my house.

[touring42]

It has happened to me three times, First time was on the vision, I was waiting for my wife to meet me at teh captains gig. I was chatting with this guy as he was also waiting for his wife. After a few minutes he says I look familial I live at Lake Tahoe and he lived in reno but worked in carson City at the Costco where I shop.

 

second and third was on teh Monarch when she was in LA.

First I was in the hairy legs contest and when the CD was asking everyone there name the guy next to me said his name was Bob from Lake Tahoe, then I say but I am bob from Lake tahoe. Turns he lives about 10 miles from me.

 

on the last day dw and I were sitting in a lounge waiting to get off the ship, another couple sits down next to us so I strike up a conservation, I ask them where they were from and they say Tahoe, turns out they owned the napa auto part store about a mile from my house.

 

It is spelled like tahoe without an "a" and "o".

 

Just teasing.:)

[klingoncruiser]

Really is a small world. Have a great trip.

[flatfoot41]

while sitting at a table for 8 at breakfast 5 of us MIL W and 2D's a party of 3 is seated. the mom looks very familiar. so i say to her you graduated LHS in 78 or 79 right? she did but i cant remember her nabe. she tells me and we have a good laugh. turns out and i find this out later from my W, my MIL was dating this girls father when she met my FIL!