how random is this?

[artoodeeto]

So I just found out today that one of my girlfriend's oldest friends, someone she's known since they were classmates in elementary school, just recently married a guy who teaches at Cogswell in Sunnyvale, CA. And it just so happens I went to school there 6 or 7 years ago, and he had just started at that point...and I took some drawing and sculpting classes with him. I'm 33, he's I think a few years older, and his wife and my girlfriend are both about 24. I mean, what are the chances of something like that happening? Feels like I'm in a soap opera or something LOL.

[Trace]

Fairly random

[x88x]

Funny how the world works sometimes. /cues 'Small World' music

[Luthien]

It kinda makes since if you think about it. Your girlfriend and her friend happen to like men with similar interests. That happens a lot. My best friend and I both tend to date men with similar interests. They get along better when they have common ground, which makes it easier and more fun for us all to hang out.

[Drum Thumper]

Happens quite a bit here in Montana. But then again, everyone knows everyone else here too.

[Luthien]

I guess it would be more uncommon in a place with a larger population, but it still makes sense that the friends are with guys who both like drawing and sculpting.

[artoodeeto]

yeah, now that you mention it, it does make sense. I think for me it felt like it came out of left field because I know the husband, and completely independent of that my girlfriend knows the wife, and in an area like San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara/Morgan Hill, with the really high population, what are the chances that those two would meet each other, much less (given the likely 20 year age difference) end up married?

I just think back to when I was taking classes with him, and wondering what I would have thought if I could have had any inkling that we'd end up with women who were classmates growing up LOL.

[Airbozo]

Lol nice!

My wife and I were within 20' of each other at least 12 times in our life before we ever met. All over the country too, including one time I was in the Navy and we just got to Hawaii. She was at a swim meet in the same building I was working out in. Years before I was in Orlando for Navy electronics school, and she was at a swim meet in a building right next door to where I was taking classes. The first time was when I was 12 years old and she was at another swim meet in colorado. I was at the same meet in the beginners competition at the pool hours before her.

When we finally met, it was love at first sight!

[Luke122]

My wifes mother was very good friends with my former roomates older sister, many years before i met my wife. Adrian was my roomate in 2002-2003, and I didnt meet my wife until 2005.

One day her mom was talking about her friends younger brother, and how strange he was. I said, "Sounds like my old roomate, Adrian." She flipped out, "THAT WAS HIS NAME TOO!"

Turns out it was the same guy!

[artoodeeto]

LOL awesome! Amanda (my girlfriend) and I met at UC Davis in California (near Sacramento). We're 9 years apart, but were both music majors there. After I graduated, they started inviting choral alumni back each year to do a big concert with their student chorus and orchestra. I went in March 2008 to sing in one of these (Brahms Requiem), and after one of the rehearsals, we all went out for pizza. One of my friends, who stayed in Davis after graduating and continued to sing in the chorus, and so knew a lot of the students, encouraged one of the students with us to call as many people as he could and get them to hang out with us.
Well, Stephen calls Amanda, and somehow cajoles her into coming over. She was getting over a really bad case of pneumonia and so wasn't singing in the concert, but Stephen was insistent and so she came to the pizza place. She sat down next to me...and that was it. we talked for something like 6 hours straight!

The fun part was finding out that we had sung together the year before, in fact she sat right next to my good friend who had stayed in the chorus, and we didn't meet. A couple years prior to that, in a concert I couldn't go to, she sang with two very good friends of mine, also alumni, who are now living in Seattle.
And, while I was working at the Micro Center in Santa Clara a few years before, she and her mom had come in to look at laptops. I don't know if I was working that day, but I like to think I was. :)