did you meet a sister/brother somewhere you didn't expect?
 

I love hearing these stories -- I think esp. for the greeks who aren't on GC, it makes a HUGE difference in realizing, Hey, this truly is a nationwide, lifelong thing.

I remember reading one story about a Phi Mu who had an elderly woman come up to her in line at a bookstore and excitedly whisper the password in her ear. How cool is that?!

I saw some sisters driving in their car from another Chapter while I was driving home from a party and a few weeks ago. We had the same license plate holders with our letters on it! I also saw an alumna from another Chapter at my work wearing our letters! They were both very exciting experiences!

a friend was a huge party when i went home last summer, and the cops had come so his dad had to kick everyone out, and i was really angry that i had to leave since the party was really fun, and as i was walking out his dad stopped me and said "i cant kick out one of my own brothers" and we ended up talking all night about stories he had from when he was an active in his chapter

I've seen bros at a few places around Boston, just randomly on the street, at bars, places like that.

When I first got initiated, I saw a guy at the amusement park I was working at back home with a Kappa Sig hat. We ended up talking for a while, it was pretty interesting.

At Christmas I was shopping with my aunt and my cousin's fiancèe at the GAP. I was wearing my rush shirt and the clerk complimented me on it-- she's a Kappa from Iowa. :D

About a week after our initiation, one of my sisters was in the computer cluster in the student center, wearing her brand-new pin... when a complete stranger came up to her and gave her the password. She was an AEPhi from somewhere else...

What she was doing in the cluster, I have no idea, since she wasn't a student and therefore shouldn't have been able to get in. Oh well.

Last week I was driving home from work on I-95 and a VW Beetle goes by and I see that she's in a sorority, but I can't make out which one because of the glare.

As I got closer, I saw she was an Alpha Phi from University of Delaware! I passed her and went to say hi, but she exited right then.

While I was home over Winter Break, I was talking to my best friend and she mentioned that one of her friends joined Alpha Phi at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I was pretty surprised to hear this because she had started off at Northern Illinois (and I thought she was still there) and a bunch of her friends joined Delta Gamma. UIUC was actually my second choice and I had always wondered if I would have joined Alpha Phi there, let alone gone Greek.

Later over break, I stopped into Bath and Body Works to make a return for my mom and I saw a girl I had played soccer with for a few years in high school, and had also been in a show choir with me for a year. We weren't close enough to hang out ever, but we did talk pretty often. She told me she was at UIUC and asked me if I joined a sorority at Florida Tech. I said, "Yes, Alpha Phi", and she replied, "GET OUT!" Turns out she is also an Alpha Phi at the Beta Alpha chapter. Crazy, huh?

Then I found out that another girl who I played soccer with joined Alpha Phi at Northern Illinois. Small world, indeed.

I was riding the T in Boston (the T is Boston's subway) and I was wearing a jacket with Phi Mu letters on it. I middle age woman came up to me and told me she's a Phi Mu alum from a chapter in Maine. We talked for a while about our chapters and recited different cheers - while receiving strange looks from others on the train :p She told me that she wasn't very active in alum stuff because she recently returned to seminary to get her masters degree. I told her that my big sis is in seminary as well. It was very cool to meet a random stranger on a train and immediatly have that bond between us.

Last year, I was in a parking lot walking toward a produce store. I saw a license plate frame with KD on it. Left a note on the windshield to say hi. I mentioned the story on the KD online newsletter. The next day a response came back. It was from the mother of a gal who was in the chapter when I was an active a zillion years ago. Mom is also a KD as is grandmother.

My other story was several years ago I went to sign the contract with a caterer for my daughter's bat mitzvah party. I had on a sweatshirt which says "Kappa Delta Alumnae". Caterer tells me she is also a KD. Turns out from the same chapter, many years later.

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When I was an active I wore my badge to work and would encounter lots of alums that way.

Last week I was working out at the local gym in my hometown, and I was wearing my formal recruitment shirt. One of the women in there was reading the back of it and asked if I belonged to any of the organizations listed on there. I told her that I was an ADPi, and she shook my hand and said that she was one too. We spent the rest of the time at the gym talking about ADPi stuff! :)

I was at the Tri Section Meeting for AYSO, and going to a referee class, someone saw my letters on the escalator and said "YITBOS", so I went all the way up the four story escalator, rode it back down, and talked to the guy. Ironically, he was from the same chapter as a Delta SIg I had met earlier in the day at the same function, and they didn't know the other was there.

I was at the Dentist, and the Financial Analyst for Fox Tv's Fox In The Morning was there. Turns out he is a Delta Sig from UCSD.

I was at a wedding and seated at a table with another couple who didn't know anyone. I was chatting with the woman and we really hit it off - joking and dancing etc. The end of the night comes and we all go to a bar after. I start to tell a story about my "sorority sister" and she says: "What sorority were you in?" I tell her, and she is a Chi O, too! Then we proceed to do songs ans chants and drive our boyfriends' crazy! It was fun!

I was in the Wal-Mart in my hometown shopping with my mom sometime last year, and I happened to have my letters on. Well, lo and behold, these two girls popped out from behind a shoe rack and said, "Hey, where are you a DZ at?" I told them UK, and they introduced themselves as DZs from Morehead (which is right up the road from my house). It was pretty cool--I've never met another DZ while I've been out someplace, except for the time I went to a party at another school that has no national sororities, and a girl comes up to me and says, "Hey, I saw your lavalier, and I had to come say hello 'cause I'm a DZ at OU!"

i am not yet a greek, but i will post anyway. i was at Bed, Bath, and Beyond today with my mom doing some serious shopping!!:D anywho, first i saw this glassware set made by the company, Anchor with a cool looking anchor symbol on it. then when my mom and i went to the check out line, the cashier was a DG from Univeristy of North Florida! and she recognized me too cause i went through COB this past spring. i thought it was really cool.

I went out for drinks with a co-worker and we were meeting his female friend. She went to U of Wisconsin, so of course I asked, "Were you in a sorority?" Yes ma'am, she was a DG! We hit it off famously after that.

One of my sisters and I went to the mall one day, and as we were leaving, we noticed that the car right next to hers had a KD sticker on it. It was obviously an alum, because she had a baby seat in the back. So we wrote her a note and left it on her windshield.

The same sister and I were driving to the beach a few weeks later, and we saw one of our sisters cars - or so we thought. She had a black Civic, a KD euro sticker, KD license plate frame, it was exactly like my niece's car. We drive up next to her, I'm like waving and doing our little KD handsign out the window...she was totally not my niece! She honked and waved, but she probably thought we were a little crazy!

One more story...my parents and brother were at the Orlando Intl. Airport waiting for a flight last December, and my mom saw a girl with a KD shirt. She goes up to her and is like my daughter's a KD at USF. And the girl introduced herself, and she was like I go to USF too! She was one of my sisters, who just happened to get a flight out of Orlando, not Tampa. My mom told me later, and I thought it was pretty great that she would just go up to a random KD!

We met a bunch of DZ's a couple of years ago on spring break. Some sisters and I were scoping out the beach and we saw these girls laying out on turtle towels and we stopped to let them know that we thought they had the cutest towels and they mentioned Delta Zeta...they were awesome girls. We made plans to meet up later that night and go out together...and I must say that spring break is definitely a lot more fun when DZ's are representing :D

I am involved in an organization called Young Life which is an outreach program to high school and middle school kids. I went to go help out at the school we do YL at for their middle school field day. I had a Chi O crest charm on my necklace and the parent in charge of field day asked me if that was a Chi O crest on my neck. Turns out she was a Chi O alum from UGA and so was another parent field day volunteer.

I was in the mall a few weeks ago wearing our Parent's weekend shirt and I saw a girl kind of watching me, I was like hmm ok. I was in line at the food court and she came up and was like hey I am a Chi O at UCF, we chatted for a while, it was really neat!

My mom's a caterer and does a lot of the lunches for the local library system. Whenever they plan a party with her, she works with this one woman, Vicki. Her husband teaches at my school (actually had him for a class), but i never put it together that she too went to BW. Months after I joined, I found out that she too was a Phi Mu from BW's chapter :)

I also love going to work out and seeing people wearing tshirts with their letters on them- I was just in a kickboxing class with a Kappa Delta last week.:D

Two years ago, when I was a manager at a Pizza Shop in Shaker, I was bartender for the evening. There was a bunch of guys who just ordered two pitchers of beer. One of them notice that I had on my summer cap with my letters on. He then introduced himself to me as one of the founding members of the Beta Tau Chapter of STG at Slippery Rock University in PA. That was definately cool.:)

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Once at a TV taping that my chapter went to this girl comes up to me and ask what chapter I'm from. Turns out she was a Phi Sigma Sigma from CSU Bakersfield which is in our division but is a few hours drive from Los Angeles.

Another time I was at Disneyland for the Candlelight Procession ceremony and I see someone with a Phi Sig shirt on. It turned out it was the Advisor from the Bakersfield Chapter. We said hi and it turned out both of us were there celebrating our birthdays.

Carolyn

When I owned the Liquor store, 3 young men came in the store.

I asked them for I D's. They all took them out to show me and I see a LXA Card. Asked what is that and they all Said, It is our Fraternity card. What
Fraternity is it. LXA one said, I told them in a Fraternity and pull out my billfold and show them mine!!!:)

"Holy Shit He is a LXA and has a # 1 on it"

I laffed like crazy. Have been to the UMoKC house several times and met the Brothers!!

One of my Brothers worked in a High Rise and had LCA Tag on car with his #. Had three notes on window from Brothers of Diff Chapters who worked in the same office building!

Is anyone checking the world to see if it really is getting smaller?:D

Ok, so I've never ran into someone from my GLO....yet. But this tread has given me hope!!!! I was begining to think it was never going to happen...but I'll just keep my eyes open, and maybe one day....

One of my sisters, Amy, worked vacations at Disneyland as one of the charactors(Minnie Mouse I think?)

Once she was out and about and saw a girl with A Phi letters on.

She went chasing after her, waving her 'paws' frantically.

The girl was totally confused, until Amy held out her paw and gave her the handshake.

The girl was elated, and hugged Amy.

an A Phi was a mouse?

when I was snowboarding in colorado a few years ago I wound up randomnly sitting on the chairlift next to two Betas from the University of Florida. we went and had a few beers and it was pretty cool.

last summer I was in italy and this old guy in venice saw me wearing a Beta shirt and came up to me and gave me the grip. it was pretty awesome to meet a brother all the way across the world

I met a KD from the University of Florida in the store at Bethany. (Yes, THE store, there is only one :) ). It was surreal that we met in our tiny little college town!

LOL, that's hysterical... if I ever get to be Minnie, I'm so doing that! :p

LOL! What a funny story! If I had a Minnie Mouse chasing me, I think I'd be confused and a little bit afraid! LOL

Word!!! Did you catch ner name?

Working in Victoria's Secret when I visited my friend in Chicago.

I ran into three alums in one day. After our parents day thing at mason, my mom and grandma took me shopping at target. I was wearing letters and this girl comes up to me in the aisle and says "I'm in the NoVa alumnae chapter!" We talk for a little bit and then go our separate ways. Standing in line waiting to check out, the girl behind me in line says "I'm a Zeta from Texas!" so we talk for a little bit. Then, when we're at Applebee's, the waitress comes up to me and says "OMG I'm a Zeta, too!" I had never met sisters outside of my chapter, so to meet three in one day was pretty neat.

This past Feburary, right after I began to pledge Delta Gamma, I went home for the weekend and my parents and I went out to dinner. When we got to the resturant, my dad saw a man he does business with, so we all went over and talked to them for a few minutes. While my dad was talking to that guy, my mom and I were talking to his wife. She asked me how school was doing, and my mom mentioned I had just pledged a sorority. The wife asked which sorority, and I said "Delta Gamma". Sitting at the end of the table was the man's 80something year old mother, who then said "I'm a Delta Gamma"! It was my first time meeting a sister outside of my chapter and it was special to meet such an old alumna!

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I joined Phi Mu Spring '03 and my mother was really excited for me. she told almost everyone she came in contact with including my old high school giudance counselor who responed OMG I'm a Phi Mu too!!! It' s kinda funny that the first phi mu that I ever met was right under my nose and helping me even before I was a sister :)

Allison

I was at an Illinois Jaycee convention some years back, wearing my Alpha Phi Omega letter sweatshirt. A woman from another Jaycee chapter stops me and asks me if I'm a brother. Turns out she is too, from some other chapter (I forgot which one), as is one of the (at the time) state officers. That was pretty cool.

Some months later, I was at one of my Jaycee chapter meetings wearing letters and I was talking to one of the newer members of my chapter. Turns out that not only is she an alum of the Eta chapter (NIU), but her sister is an alum of Mu chapter (my chapter!) and pledged the semester after I graduated!

2 summers ago I was working at Nordstrom. I happened to wear a Delta Gamma t-shirt when we were doing stock the night before the crazy anniversary sale. 1 of my co-workers, a woman who is 50, was like, you're a DG? So am I! It was really cool, and after that I felt a special bond with her. Another co-worker, was an Alpha Xi Delta-- still had a Greek bond with her, but it wasn't the same as a DG one.

I can't believe I didn't pull up this thread when it happened...

I stood up in a wedding last month for my roomie from the chapter house. Her maid of honor was a Gamma Phi, as was another bridesmaid. Some of our chapter sisters came to the wedding early to drop off some things we needed and they were wearing letters and had stickers on their cars, which the woman directing parking - she got all excited and told them she was a Gamma Phi from the Epsilon chapter at Northwestern, pledge class of 1962. Turns out her family owns the arboretuem or something like that - we included her in one of our pictures. It was so cool for us to run into another sister like that. :p

I met my cousin's girlfriend at Thanksgiving freshmen year and we talked for a while about all sorts of stuff, including recruitment. She encouraged me to go through, but I didn't even think twice about the fact that she never mentioned what house she was in, but we go to different schools, so I never thought to ask.

To make a long story short, the night I got my bid, I called my parents to tell them what house I was in and they told everyone, including my cousin and his girlfriend. When I got home from Bid Night, I had a message from my cousin Tom's screen name that said " congratulations!!! we are going to be sisters!!"

Now, everytime I see her we talk about all kinds of AOII things and laugh about all the fun things we have done with our sisters. She is now married to Tom, but even if she wouldn't , we would always have the special bond of sisterhood :)

~Lacey