Six Degrees of Separation, Sort Of

[Jimbo]

Anyone subscribe to the six degrees of separation idea? I was at a two day soccer tournament for my daughter this year, last four games of the season. It was cold so I wore a big warm coat with "Northport Soccer" on the back that had been given to me some 25 years ago when I was doing some coaching and teaching there. I have no idea why I decided after all these years to wear it. I also graduated from there. Anyway, one of the dad's sitting on one side of me asked if it was Northport on Long Island. I said yes and explained I was born and brought up there and why I had the jacket. He tells me, he live there too and graduated from NHS, too, so did his brothers. Turns out one was in my class and I had known him way back when. Then the dad on my other side says, "Did I hear you say you were from Long Island? I lived in a town called Northport for about five years" Turns out he lived a stone's throw from where we first lived when my family was there. Seemed more than irony or it's a small world something like that happening.
This is twice this year something like this happened to me. Anything like this ever happen to anyone else?

[JohnR]

Oh, about 12-14 years ago I was over a friends house. He was on my dart team up in Boston and we had the whole team over (drinking) practicing darts. We'd known each other for close to 2 years at the point. He had a decent collection of Beer "steins" and short version is that he said his girlfriend had gotten them from when she lived in Germany several years before. I said really, what part of Germany? I rattled off a couple major places, one sounded familiar to him. As I walked upstairs and saw her I asked where she went to High School. With a funny look ("like he would know") she said Germany, I said where in Germany she said Stuttgart, I said which High School (there were 2 American High Schools on bases over there at the time), and she replied "Alexander M Patch High", again with that look like "like he's going to know that place".

I said hang on and went out to my P.O.S. car of the time and grabbed my Yearbook from 1984 (at Patch, everyone got a yearbook annually as people rotated out on an average of every three years, I was class of 86). I brought in and showed her the yearbook with her senior year picture (I was a sophmore) and she freaked and asked me where I got it as her senior yearbook was lost in a fire in LV just before that. So I scrolled over to my picture.

Funny as it turns out we knew each other for close to 2 years and never even dawned on us that we went to school together over in Germany in the mid 80s, even having a class together (we ran in different, uhh, circles)...

She broke up with this guy a year or so later. Two years later we started dating. She is now my wife.


(She calls it destingy, I call it fate - That was a JOKE honey )

Oddly enough I have run into other people from Patch High on pure freak blind luck.

Oh, one of our members is from there as well (the town, not the High School)...

[Slingah]

....all the time.....somebody knows somebody who knows somebody....

[RIJIMMY]

thats a cool story John

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Oh, about 12-14 years ago I was over a friends house. He was on my dart team up in Boston and we had the whole team over (drinking) practicing darts. We'd known each other for close to 2 years at the point. He had a decent collection of Beer "steins" and short version is that he said his girlfriend had gotten them from when she lived in Germany several years before. I said really, what part of Germany? I rattled off a couple major places, one sounded familiar to him. As I walked upstairs and saw her I asked where she went to High School. With a funny look ("like he would know") she said Germany, I said where in Germany she said Stuttgart, I said which High School (there were 2 American High Schools on bases over there at the time), and she replied "Alexander M Patch High", again with that look like "like he's going to know that place".

I said hang on and went out to my P.O.S. car of the time and grabbed my Yearbook from 1984 (at Patch, everyone got a yearbook annually as people rotated out on an average of every three years, I was class of 86). I brought in and showed her the yearbook with her senior year picture (I was a sophmore) and she freaked and asked me where I got it as her senior yearbook was lost in a fire in LV just before that. So I scrolled over to my picture.

Funny as it turns out we knew each other for close to 2 years and never even dawned on us that we went to school together over in Germany in the mid 80s, even having a class together (we ran in different, uhh, circles)...

She broke up with this guy a year or so later. Two years later we started dating. She is now my wife.


(She calls it destingy, I call it fate - That was a JOKE honey )

Oddly enough I have run into other people from Patch High on pure freak blind luck.

Oh, one of our members is from there as well (the town, not the High School)...

WOW....I didnt read the whole thing...great story John...thats how it goes........

[Jimbo]

A "How I met My Wife/Significant Other" thread could might reveal some pretty interesting stories.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

A "How I met My Wife/Significant Other" thread could might reveal some pretty interesting stories.

Don't know if I want to hear your story - Probably XXX rated...

So how you doing?

Matt - it was a 10 million to one on many levels. Her dad worked for IBM and was in Germany for 3 years. IBM had a deal that their kids could go to the American DOD school on the base. My dad worked for the DOD as a GS civilian and he had a 3 year tour over there. I came back to Boston where I'm more or less from, she went to BU...

Now I ran into a friend of mine from Germany that just happened to come into my work at the time in West Roxbury to collect some money from a guy that stiffed him on some books, another million to one.... I just wich that I hit the Powerball million to one

[Nebe]

here is John's yearbook shot from '86.

http://www.unitedmaskandparty.com/Th...osen_black.JPG

[JohnR]

That was pretty weak - but I did find yours

[Nebe]