Me and my mate Geordie were dogging a few weeks back near Hendon Prom and who should come a tapping on the window - you knows it
As someone else said - "It's a small world but I wouldn't like to paint it"
I've bumped into a couple of people on different continents, seven degrees of separation and all that.
One memorable holiday type coincidence / karma thing
My first proper holiday away abroad - 16 with about 12 other mates, camping package holiday in southern France. The bus was making a few picks ups but we all decided to meet at the same one about half way down the list. Piled onto the coach drunk as monkeys, shouting and bawling in a polite kind of way. Deputy Head Master and family sat on same bus, going to same place, for same length of time. I feel for the man now I have growed up a bit. He must have felt like his heart was being ripped out by penguins or summat.
We taught his toddlers how to swear and I tried to get into the shower with his wife by accident. It was endless jests and japes. I have vague memories of a delegation coming over and threatening us but that might have been something I saw on the telly and have since taken it on as fact. I chilled my boots though and eventually stopped pulling the guy ropes out of his tent as I thought it was childish and silly + I had been knocked over by a car and had seduced a tour rep. I'll not mention her name here as she is probably a successful Trawlerman / KingCrab fisherman and it may effect her career.
Oh aye and straining Batchelors savoury rice for 8 by tipping the mix into a pillow case marching into the middle of the settlement and swinging it rund and rund laughing a lot. Only to see the overspray damage
