What's The Weirdest This That Ever Happened To You?

[chemistry_geek]

What is the weirdest thing that ever happened to you?

Here's mine...

1. Mom and Dad get divorced. Dad moves to the other side of town. Mom, brother and I move to the country (out of the city). Dad has neighbors that later have kids. I baby sit for the neighbors and get to know the neighbors very well, almost like an extended family.

2. My brother meets a girl online. His girlfriend lives in the neighborhood where I lived with mom and dad before they divorced. Brother's girlfriend says to me "I have a friend I'd like to set you up with". "She lives a few houses away." I learn that she's a lawyer and works for the court system as a referee.

3. I work in another city 30 miles South from where I live. I talk to some coworkers about my brother's girlfriend setting me up with a lawyer who works for the city. Word spreads in the facility. Another worker comes to me and says "What's this I hear about you seeing a lawyer?". I say the girls first name and my coworker completes her last name, and starts laughing, turns and walks away. I ask "what's wrong with her?" He just shakes his head and says "good luck with her."

4. I talk to neighbors in (1) about my brother's girlfriend setting me up with this girl. The neighbors know the girl's family, and hesitates but eventually gives me the low-down on the WHOLE family situation - not good.

5. Facts: I went to grade school with the girl (K-2nd). When mom and dad divorced I went to another school system and did not see this girl for many years. During 6th grade I meet this girl again at camp. Three years ago, my brother's girlfriend tries to set me up with the same girl.

6. The weirdest thing: I cross paths with this girl 3 times in my life from childhood to adulthood. I know 3 people at the same time in my life, who don't know each other, but they all know ME and the GIRL.

This reminds me of an article I read in Discover Magazine (December 1998) title "Six Degrees of Separation". A mathematician suggests with a proof that any two people on Earth a no farther away than 6 people. John knows Tim(1) who knows Mary(2) who knows Theodore(3) who knows Gertrude(4) who knows Agnas(5) who knows Mike who knows QUEEN ELIZABETH.

According to this article, anyone reading this post is TWO degrees of separation from Jürgen Schremp, CEO of Mercedes Benz. I don't know the man, but someone I know, knows him.

Fascinating...

[edX]

well niles, i dont know if this is the weirdest thing that's happened to me, but your story reminded me of it. I once dated or had long relationships or got married with 5-6 women in a row, all of whom were friends with a female friend of mine named kit. yet only one pair of these girls knew each other before knowing me. It got really hard to see kit as a friend anymore because she was friends with all my ex's. i finally made it a rule that any girl i was going to be involved with couldn't be a friend of kits. now i'm about to celebrate 10 yrs with the woman i met shortly after making that rule.

kit was a wonderful person but that was just too weird after a while

[simX]

Originally posted by chemistry_geek
This reminds me of an article I read in Discover Magazine (December 1998) title "Six Degrees of Separation". A mathematician suggests with a proof that any two people on Earth a no farther away than 6 people. John knows Tim(1) who knows Mary(2) who knows Theodore(3) who knows Gertrude(4) who knows Agnas(5) who knows Mike who knows QUEEN ELIZABETH.

According to this article, anyone reading this post is TWO degrees of separation from Jürgen Schremp, CEO of Mercedes Benz. I don't know the man, but someone I know, knows him.

Fascinating...

Doesn't degrees of separation mean the number of people in between? So two degrees of separation would mean someone I know knows someone who knows the CEO of Mercedes Benz.

[AdmiralAK]

Well this is current...
I saw the girl I went to the prom with in my dream...how freaky is that! (freaky cause I did not go with her cause she was some sort of a beauty queen and I did not like her )

dude...it freaked me out

[xoot]

Anyone going to say xoot?

[twyg]

Here's a decent one...

Freshman in High School, hangin' with two groups. One group is a bunch of geeks. The geeks have the "goth" division and the other group is a bunch of "greasers." (high school was 2500 students)

Hung w/ the greasers at night, hung w/ geeks during the day.

Met a girl by the name of (Sue) Name changed to protect her.

She hung out on the fringes of both groups, much like myself.

She went away for a bit, we didn't really talk anyway as she was nice, but I didn't really want to hang w/ her at the time.

Junior year we start to hang a little more, but then things go differently and we stop bein' friends. (Lost touch)

Graduation, she goes away, loosing touch. Group of greasers, geeks, and clubbers gets together. Well, there she is again. We start to hang, things go well, and we take two or three dates. Again, our ways seperate. (Her choice this time)

Two years pass. Making a website for a buddy who creates leather armour for a hobby (Makin' decent moneys) I also help him with that as I can. Now we're involved in a LARP, and more and more people are hearing about his armour.

This kid Dan from GHS (my alma mater) is coming up to pickup his gear he just payed for. Dan comes in with two or three people, I'm busy at work. I dicern two males and two females. Sure... Probably someone I've seen around, but whatever, I got some serious Java problems. So, as all good programmers do, I go outside for a cigarette. Bam, (Sue!) Dan!, Joe, Dina! Good God! (A very small geek contingent of my friends.)

(Sue) and I exchange data and keep in touch. Something blurs, and suddenly we're very close, living together and seriously considering engagement.

(Sue) decides to finish college, and shoots over to Indiana. I'm still in CT.

Doesn't work out so well, so again I have to call it off.

Seems like either something wants us apart or together and It can't seem to make It's mind up.

Well now I'm happily with someone, (comin' up on 3 years) It's a little odd...

[mrfluffy]

xoot, do i win?

[xoot]

Who wins is up to the creator of this thread.