[Trayderjoe]

My nephew (Rich) and his fiance were recently in Europe and had occasion to meet another couple from America. While chatting, the subject of where you live naturally arose. Rich indicated that he and his fiance lived in LA, and the other couple indicated that they lived near Orlando. So Rich, turns and indicated that his uncle and aunt live near Orlando in the Villages. As it turns out, the other couple live in TV, the husband is a golf ambassador at our Country Club and his wife works at the Country Club as well. Although we don't personally know them (maybe we will cross paths one day and have new friends), it just continues to point out what a small world we live in.

Any other "small world" examples out there?

[getdul981]

My wife and I were on a bus tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, I think in 1982, and made friends/acquaintance with 3 people from Jacksonvill, FL that were in our same group. We never kept in touch with them after the trip. 3 or 4 years later we were taking another bus tour through the Scandinavian countries and at one of the stops that we made, we ran into the same 3 people from the previous trip. None of us knew the others were going to be in the same area. As it turned out, we were all staying in the same hotel that night. After that night, our tours took different routes and we have never seen them since.

[buzzy]

The year before we bought, we met a golf course manager on a Mediterranean cruise. Then I looked him up after we bought to say hello.

Just after going to contract, I met a resident couple on a scuba trip in Curacao. We visited them after closing.

[2BNTV]

A friend of mine was in Italy on vacation and he heard his name called out. There was two couples from the old neighborhood that were in Italy at the same time. They all went to dinner that night.

My aunt had a best friend in high school and both got married and lived in the same city. They lost touch and never ran into one another as they were busy raising families. Forty so years later, my aunt was waiting in line to see a show in Vegas and who was behind her in line was her high school girlfriend.

Small world indeed.

[BobnBev]

My SIL owns a RVpark/campground in Cody, WY. While filling out the registration cards, several people have put down THE VILLAGES as their home address.

[delima2000]

When we lived in Michigan my son while in high school had a pen pal from Germany, on vacation in Florida we went to adventure island and while waiting in line a family was speaking German and my son struck up a conversation with them he told them that he had a pen pal from Germany and the girl said that she had a pen pal that lived in the USA. He asked where and she said he was from a place called Wyandotte,mi he about had a heart attack. Said that we were from there and was on vacation. Come to find out they were each others pen pals. What a fun day that turned out to be.

[mac9]

When we moved to TV in 2006, we saw our next door neighbors on their lanai and invited them over for some drinks. We started asking each other where we had moved from. Turns out we had lived about 20 miles from each other. The conversation continued when the wife said that she had never met anyone else with my first name except a girl that she went to high school with. Yes, we went to the same high school. Didn't recognize each other (neither of us were blondes in HS)! We still live next door to each other and have become good friends all over again.

[Tom Hannon]

My two closest friends growing up in high school in East Meadow, Long Island lost touch with each other in the late 1970's. Without each of knowing whatever happened to each other, we recently discovered we had all moved to The Villages.