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OfflineDeviate
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running into folks you know again and again?
    #21400603 - 03/13/15 01:37 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Lately I have been suffering from this syndrome.

Let me give you an example. There is a dude named Ed who lives in my town/city. We've about 117,025 people living here. I hadn't seen this Ed fellow in years (I used to smoke crack with him back in the day but after we both quit smoking crack, we sort of drifted apart).

Anyway, in the past three months I have randomly met ed a grand total of five, count 'em, FIVE times. I ran into him once in the grocery store, once in the library and three times on the city bus.

Now you may think that's odd but he isn't even the only one. This past weekend, I volunteered to care for homeless people at my church's homeless shelter. I met this cool homeless fellow there called Zachary. Well, Monday rolls around and immediately I am running into Zachary on the street. Not too surprising I guess, that is, until Tuesday when I am running into Zachary randomly on the street surrounded by hundreds of people, ONCE AGAIN!

And those are the two most glaring examples but I have been running into other people I know. What are the odds of something like this happening? HAs anyone else suffered from a similar problem?

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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: Deviate]
    #21401294 - 03/13/15 08:16 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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Lately I have been suffering from this syndrome.




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HAs anyone else suffered from a similar problem?




just curious about your choice of words - how does this cause you suffering? (I guess if you didn't want to see them?). To me it seems like it could be a positive thing if there was a hidden reason for why you should keep bumping into these people - perhaps something wants to be exchanged between you?


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: deff]
    #21409541 - 03/15/15 12:41 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

That's exactly why it brings suffering. I get weirded out by it and start thinking something wants to be exchanged between us, as though there is some reason we keep running into each other, but I can't ever figure out what it is we are supposed to exchange, so we share an awkward hello and short conversation and then I hope I won't run into the poor guy again but next you thing you know, there he is. ANd like I said, it happened 5 times within the span of 2-3 motns in a town of over 117,000 people and I dont even frequet the streets. I just ride the bus home from work. So I gotta think to myself, "deviate man, what are the odds of that?" and I find it rather freaky.

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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: Deviate]
    #21409545 - 03/15/15 12:43 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

kinda like when you get a new car...you always see the same model of car....:shrug:


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: jboredone]
    #21409551 - 03/15/15 12:47 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

There's this dude that was in the mental hospital with me years back. I see him constantly, in my old neighborhood, or downtown, or in weird places in the city. Pretty strange I guess.


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #21409820 - 03/15/15 03:05 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

This happens all the time for me.

The only difference is that I constantly bump into people I haven't seen for years, but randomly thought of either earlier that day or the day before.

It's like a feedback loop from the future or something  :strokebeard:


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: Deviate]
    #21410047 - 03/15/15 04:51 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

That's a meaningful coincidence to you?  To me that's a sign that you need to go outside more :lol:.  I had a college roommate in Ohio in '00 that I fell out of touch with for a full decade and randomly ran into him riding a 6ft unicycle here in Portland (2,500 miles away).... It turned out he lived 4 fucking blocks away from me!  That's serendipity!


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #21411663 - 03/15/15 02:17 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

so you went to clown college?....:awethumb:


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Re: running into folks you know again and again? [Re: Deviate]
    #21412021 - 03/15/15 03:55 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

The fact that you're running into him at the grocery store, library, and bus makes it seem to me that he lives in the same neighbourhood of the city as you, meaning the odds are likely better than 1/117,025. Maybe he recently moved?

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