It's a small world after all...

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I am convinced that everyone in Rhode Island knows each other, knows someone that knows them, or is related.

My mom grew up there. Maybe we're related!

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

My mom grew up there. Maybe we're related!

Goodness, it's entirely possible. I probably know someone who knows someone who knows her. Rhode Island is the geographical equivalent of six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

[honeychile]

My gggrandparents lived in and were married in Newport, RI. My DH's sister lived in Warwick, and he spent several summers there. As he said, the state's a whopping 37 miles wide, you have to be friendly!

This didn't happen to me, but when I was in high school, a friend of mine spent a summer in Constantinople. He was shopping at the bazaar one day, and ran into our English teacher!

[aephi alum]

Another story for ya:

My MIL is very into genealogy. She's gotten most of her family and friends to submit DNA samples to FamilyTreeDNA.com. We've learned some surprising things. First and foremost, two of MIL's best friends are also her fourth cousins. The two are married - and they are third cousins (which explains a few things about that family ).

I must say that I was relieved to learn that I do not match with my husband, or with any of his family who have submitted samples. The husband is awesome and I love him dearly, but some of his relatives are ......... interesting.

[honeychile]

I can add another. My mother owned a home health agency (not one of the national franchises - hers predated 90% of those), where I worked for several years. One of our clients lived in a somewhat unique house in an upscale neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Her husband passed away, then she, too died. The house sold.

About four months later, we got a series of calls about possibly taking care of a woman who was in the same neighborhood. Her daughter had built a mother-in-law apartment onto her house for her, and she was moving into it. We were told the address and, yes, it was the same house. The best part? The mother was Michael Keaton's mother! She turned into one of the loveliest clients we ever had, very gracious and kind to the very end.

[andthen]

Ok first thought who ever came up with this idea genius! The stories have been a ton of fun to read. Ok now on to my two.

The first one happened several years back I was starting a new job, and I arrive for my first day and you have to meet with HR as part of the orientation process. So the gal that comes in looks super super familiar. And she's giving me that look "I totally know you from somewhere" turns out we went to middle and high school together.

The second one spans an ocean. So my friend and I were traveling in Argentina, and we were with a tour group. As much as I travel there is one thing that is certain, I will always meet an Australian and we will have good laughs. So we started chatting with these two Australian guys, they were single, we were single (and nothing happened). We went out to dinner as a group etc. We become facebook friends. Well, how's this for random. I am in Australia volunteering a few years later and meet this one gal, she's from Sydney where my facebook friend is from and they go to the same church which is huge. We become facebook friends and turns out she knows the guy I met in Argentina. She was in his wedding (the bride's side).