 July 21, 2015 - 12:39pm | I left Auburn, Me in 1989 and havent been back much except for visits. Spending the summer with my father and working as a temp fill in driver for Chinese restaurant and one of the waitresses is related to a police detective that I had some dealings with when I was young and stupid. She assures me he's no angel and that he's retired to Florida. (I'm sure there is a story there but I wont bother to ask). Made me think "small world" . what would be the setting equiv of "small frontier"? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 21, 2015 - 1:56pm | I had a odd small world encounter while doing a summer internship working with youth in 6 difference churches over the summer. The churches contributed a little cash and the colleged credited you a little off of your bill and you worked like a dog. My sister was getting married and I had a special dispensation to attend and flying back to Maine I was in an airport lounge waiting for a connecting flight and ran into Father Gilbert who was a close family friend to my parents (cmae over for dinner many times) and my Sophomore year religion and Geometry teacher from a little Catholic high school in Plattsburgh NY. He took a rather dim view of the Baptist school I was attending and urged that I at least enroll in a liberal Lutheran university but I suppose that was not too surprising.
I suppose I would use this during a starship layover have a teacher from the PC's past bump into him in the same space station lounge. Could have the teacher take a dim view of the PCs current occupation like if they were a corporate mercenary and encourage them to enlist in a militia or simply have him ask for help. Might even have the teacher offer to speak to a guy he knows in the recruiting office. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 21, 2015 - 6:49pm | It is a small world... I have had grown adults walk up to me and even though they are now in their 20's they remember me from one elementary school visit with the tepee. Or the really weird 6 degrees of separation game... I know so in so who knows this person and everyone knows Bob somehow, or I know a lot of the homeless (mostly cause I see them daily) but a few where neighbors till their drug use took then to rock bottom. It can be really weird, my last name everyone is a relative... no joke. So the answer is yes, I am related to so and so, we are all related. My daughter was rescued from hate based racist attacks because of her last name by Africans as that made her a "tribal" member even though she is not black... somehow a bunch of Americans of German heritage and African tribal members all have the same last name. It is a very small world. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
 July 21, 2015 - 11:37pm | It's been awhile since I got on the site but this is a funny topic. How's this for a small world? When I was in the Air Force I got my vasectomy. This was in Germany. 3 years later, I got out and moved to Everett, Wa. Got a job and all that. At this time I was a single dad and was looking for a family doctor at the Everett Clinic. Local docs and and labs. I pick up the pamphlet of their family docs and who's there, my old AF doc. So I chose him as he already knew me and it would be an easy transition. No idea he had even got out, as I had not been in Germany for two years. |
July 22, 2015 - 4:59am | LOL I know it can be so weird.... or how about when everyone insist you look exactly like another person, and when they whip up a photo you do! I look like a dead realative from Ireland and I currently have a doppleganger in a Native American tribe per all the Pow Wow circuit folks, who insist I have to be related to this other girl as we look and sound alike. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
July 23, 2015 - 12:07am | Re: you look like someone else. Old woman in nursing home once insisted I looked like Tom Cruise. Pretty sure her glasses got switched with and there patient . I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 23, 2015 - 12:24am | Don't worry Jedion, I took my sister to see the movie "Oscar", A musical gangster movie, UGH! back in the 80's. Any way, Sylvester Stallone was the star. These two older ladies said I looked like him. I thin they forgot their glasses for the movie. LOL |
 July 26, 2015 - 8:43am | My crossing paths story spanned three periods of my life. As a small child (4-8) my parents and her parents were friends. Our moms worked together and our dads were in university together. When our parents meet we would play together. Our parents went there separate ways after a while and we did not see each other for over ten years. In my last year of high school we cross paths again. She was in the theatre program and I was one the stage technicians. I graduated and we did not see each other for over 20 years. A few years ago we cross paths once again. She has her own theatre company and I'm the head technician of a 300 seats black box theatre. Her company was booked to play in my space for a week. It was nice to see each other again, plus we got our parents back in contact with each other. Over the last 15 years I've also crossed paths on a professional level with other people from high school and college. But this one was a little more personal. |
July 26, 2015 - 8:53am | A few year ago the cast and crew dance company from New Zelland insisted on calling me George since apparently I look like George Calombaris form MasterChef Australia. Being from Canada I had no ideal what they were talking about until I looked him up. And yes there is a strong resemblance. |
 July 31, 2015 - 8:23pm | I've run into two guys from my high school (2 years ahead of me, such a big difference back then) who are still RPGers. I had no idea about them way back then, and never knew they played. One I've only met on the web, he was talking about his love for the FASA Trek game, which he bought in the same hobby shop as me-- I commented that on his blog, and he responded with riding the same bus to the store from the same school. The other, I chatted with in a clothing store, I was the only customer that morning, and he had a picture of a painted miniatiure on his laptop, and we got to talking, and I recognized his name. A "should have been", again with high school. A family moved onto our street some years ago, their son was almost the same age as one of ours. We get to talking, turns out the mother went to the school just down the street from mine, where I sometimes caught the bus. She never played RPGs at that time, but kinda wished she'd met someone who had offered to teach her. So close, and so far. |
