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Re: Small World
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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06/08/2016 07:41 AM
06/08/2016 07:41 AM
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Carol_Hill said: Thanks guys! Nice stories! Hi happy to see you guys are ok!!!Hope all went well! We have many stories about people stopping us when my husband has one of his t-shirts on, but someone suggested posting this here to see if we could find the lady from the radiology office. We were probably next-door neighbors with her at BSV for years!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" /> Maybe she will read this.......
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SXM is a small place...
[Re: MamaB]
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06/08/2016 11:29 AM
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In a related story, when we went to the SXM airport on Monday to see about switching our flight, we walked up to the AA help desk. I happened to notice the lady's name at the desk was Grace Bruney. I realized that she probably had to be the sister of JD's taxi driver friend, Junior Bruney. I had met her once or twice before, with JD, since he is the godfather to her daughter, Aiesha. The last I knew, she was a travel agent. I asked her if she was Junior's sister, and she said yes. I told her we were good friends with JD, and we enjoyed a few lovely minutes talking. She is really a very lovely person and was very helpful. Thanks for your help, Grace! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
Carol Hill
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Re: SXM is a small place...
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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06/08/2016 11:39 AM
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On a similar note, at various dock diving events there have been people I know from SXM come to the events. It is amazing how the connection from SXM comes into play sometimes.
J.D.
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Re: Small World
[Re: biglar]
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06/08/2016 05:58 PM
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We were on Island with Grace's Sister and her husband. One night we were at dinner in Mario's on the canal. We were just sitting down and a guy walks up to my BIL and says hello. They worked in the same department, knew they were both going on vacation that week but neither mentioned where they were going.
Rick and Grace
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Re: Small World
[Re: The_Lurker]
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06/09/2016 08:30 PM
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My “Small World” story takes place in two different countries. A few years ago, we were at the N Resort in Jamaica, when I got talking with the lady in the adjacent lounge chair. When I introduced myself, she said “Oh, my husband’s name is also Kevin”. That got us off to a good start. We found out that we were both from Ontario. The next day, during a beach walk, we talked about where we vacationed in the summer. They said that they had a cottage on a certain lake. Turns out that their cottage was across the small bay from where we had been spending a family winter weekend for the past 35 odd years. We had been looking at their cottage all this time! They asked us where we spend our summers. We said we had a cottage on one of the lakes in the lake district. Turns out that the other Kevin grew up at their family cottage on the same lake, just a stone’s throw from ours. Small world!
This past April, we were at Club O, and got to meet another Canadian couple. Turns out that their home was on a lake next to ours. A few minutes into the discussion, he revealed that he spent a fair bit of time at a lumber yard in a nearby town, and that he knew the young lady who runs the place. Turns out that this young lady is our niece! We agreed not to discuss where we met with our niece!
Small world, indeed!
Kevin
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