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Beth54


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My sister and I were driving along yesterday, and were checking out this nice looking caravan, as we all tend to do along the way.

It was a Jayco Sterling..Deb said,' That's what D&A have just bought'. Then the vehicle came into site and she said 'it IS D&A!' Luckily we were both stopped at traffic lights and managed a few words back and forth.

How weird was that! We'd just been talking about these childhood friends who we'd spoken to on the phone a few days before, and there they were!

They'd had a few days away to try it out and found a couple of problems, so they were taking it back for 'fixit' jobs.

Has anyone else bumped into friends unexpectedly like that?



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Can't recall....Very Interesting though..Did you have coffee together after?



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I was relaxing in the pool in Darwin a few years ago. 

A couple came into the enclosure heading towards the pool.

I looked at her and then looked at him.  Gee they looked like friends who we hadn't seen for quite a few years.

My thoughts were ' As soon as she talks, I'll know if it's C...'

They placed their towels on the fence and she spoke. 'Wonder what the waters like today D....?'

I replied ' Come on in C...., the waters lovely'.

A smile came on her face. She came back with ' I thought -it's Robyn's head and it's Robyn's b..bs, It is Robyn.

Their van was in the next row to us. In view from our van.

They were heading in the same direction as us so we travelled together on and off for the next 2 months.

It's a small world.  smilesmile



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jimbo wrote:

Can't recall....Very Interesting though..Did you have coffee together after?

 No we didn't. They had their plans and we had ours. But we will be seeing them again soon.



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Good story pricey.

In the supermarket one day, I heard an old lady talking, looked around, thought the middle aged woman with her looked familiar, but wasn't sure. Turned away, older lady spoke again, then the penny dropped. I then stopped to have a chat with them both. The older lady was the mother of my sisters old boyfriend from waaaay back, and the other was his sister!

It was probably more than 30 years since I'd seen them, but the old ladies voice was unforgettable! biggrin



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We were on a 2 day tour of Kakadu from Darwin and were checking out the prices at the restaurant where they had put us for the night. We literally ran into a friend at the corner of the restaurant - they were from Sydney and we hadn't seen them for a few years - and bumped into them in the middle of Kakadu! And by the way, they had the best idea for tea - paid for some steak at the small shop and bought some bread rolls and BBQd. We gave the expensive restaurant a miss too!

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Another time, in Broome, we walked to the little corner shop at Cable Beach. Picked up a few things and went to the cash register.

Standing there ready to serve us was the girl who lived behind us back home.  She was on a working holiday.

Totally stunned us. (and her)  confuseconfuseconfuse



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I was stopped at Nullarbor Roadhouse 2 nights ago, and started chatting, as I do, to a family who had just finished a motor bike ride across the country. They were on their way home to Vic.
The truck driver I'm escorting stopped for a chat, and it turned out they both knew a person in Tassie very well, even though they'd never met.
I keep saying, "It's a small world when you have wheels under you."
I recognised a woman working at the Border Village Roadhouse yesterday. It turned out I knew her from Pt. Lincoln back in the 90's.
We had a chat to catch up, and I continued my travels.
As I passed through Jamestown last Sunday a voice called me up on the radio. I'd escorted him from Border Village to Lyndhurst a couple of weeks ago and he remembered "g
Granny", as did a pilot I chatted to at Border Village. I'm getting famous, or is that "infamous" out on the road. At least it's for the right reasons, so far.
I reunited 2 cousins who grew up in the same home in NZ, and hadn't seen each othe for 55 years. One is a friend, and the other is working in SA, and a neighbour in the caravan park when he's in Adelaide.

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Six weeks ago I was walking through the Werribee Palliative Care Hospital in Victoria When I heard my Cousins Voice  .in one of the Rooms (June)....I hadn't seen her for 42 Years and found out  she was Going through Spinal Cancer   I am now keeping in touch more regually.......



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Some great stories here.

I stopped in Longreach 2 years ago...on my way through to Winton...to buy a new camp chair. I'd planned to catch up with 2 cousins (siblings) on my way back..hadn't seen them for 30 odd years.

So I went to the camping shop to check out their chairs, then to Mitre 10, where I made my purchase. The young lady serving me looked kind-of familiar but I said nothing.

When I returned from Winton, the 2 cousins had a BBQ with family over to meet me. The young lady who served me in Mitre 10 was my 2nd cousin, and her fiance worked in the camping shop!!



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After having travelled all over this country for the last 50 years I have a rule.

 I never tell anyone who I am or where I am from till I know who I am talking to.

It is a joke, but, I have met so many people on our travels that I often wonder I we are speaking to a rellie, or a friend from way back. 

Just a few weeks ago, North Qld. met two Nieces of a friend from 60 years back.                     

 Met my old mate their uncle, 2 weeks ago, haven't seen him in 15 years.

Saw a chap walking past a camp fire 150 km. North of Hughenden 10 years ago, he looked, I looked and sure enough mates from way back.

It is a small world so keep a good lookout, you may just run into some of your long lost friends or rellies.

Safe travels Haji-Baba



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