Mood: surprised
Now Playing: Jesse's Girl -- Rick Springfield
I was just thinking that it's true what they say about it really being a small world. Not long ago, I met someone online who literally lived down the street from me. And two years ago, I met someone else online while I was in Nebraska, and he lived in San Diego...but he'd lived in Nebraska while growing up. Twenty miles away from where I grew up. He used to party with my sister. Just yesterday, he messaged me on Yahoo to ask if I'd heard about a housefire that took the lives of my brother's friend and his two sons. It's weird to chat with a relative stranger about people we both know.
When I was in college (the first time, right after high school), I had a couple of classes with this girl named Jackie, and a year after I'd dropped out of school and moved to Omaha (100 miles away from college), I went to work for Omaha Steaks, where I ran into Jackie. 100 miles away from where I'd met her! Crazy.
The weirdest incident involves a guy I met online a couple of years ago. We met in person for a date before it came to my attention that he'd grown up in Minnesota, the state I called home until I was 12. When I asked him where in MN he'd lived, he said it was near St. Cloud. I said I'd also lived near St. Cloud. He said he'd lived near Brainerd, which was even closer to my hometown, so I asked if he'd ever heard of Staples. He was shocked and said he'd grown up in Verndale, which is maybe 15 miles from Staples...and is the town my mail was delivered to. He knew all my old neighbors, and he remembered a large family living in my old house. Yeah...that was my family.
It's a small world after all...