^^This is a cute story about a married couple who, as small children, had been within feet of each other at Walt Disney World a decade and some change before they met. They found this out reviewing old family photos.
It’s possible Mrs. Homie and I crossed paths as children. She grew up about 100 miles south (and slightly west) of St. Louis; I grew up about 100 miles north (and slightly east) of St. Louis. We both went to Six Flags St. Louis countless times as kids & teens. It’s possible (if not likely) that we both would have been there on the same day at some point. I doubt there are pictures, though.
Yes… we visited the Gettysburg battlefield on the same summer, when I was two and he was eleven. Nobody can remember the exact dates we were there, though.
She was a multiple and was quite a small baby. I was born in the same hospital 9 days later and was quite large. I was in the bassinet one row behind and two to the right of her as you looked into the nursery from the observation window. My father apparently met her father based upon some general descriptions my father told me years later.
My SO moved to my hometown for college when I was in middle school/high school. We went to a lot of the same places, so it’s certainly possible that we crossed paths during those years.
Not a chance. My husband immigrated here when he was about nine years old, and lived in NYC until he was out of high school. I was born and grew up in central New Jersey. While I did visit the city once or twice on school trips, the part of the city he lived in was not one of the places you’d go on a school trip.
Not as children, no, but it’s possible that my sister and I might have been playing Barbies or something in the front yard as he rode his bike down our street when he was in tech school. I would have been about 12 and he was about 24.
Not a chance. My Thai wife is two years younger than I am. I was 20 the first time I left the US, while she was late 20s the first time she left Thailand.
My first SO and I went to 4 years of high school together and never met until about 8 years later. It was a very large school, about 3000 students, so it’s not surprising. He vaguely knew who I was because I had run for student office, but I had never heard of him.
None of the others. My current SO grew up in another country.
Suburban Plankton grew up in Sacramento. I grew up in the Bay Area, but my grandparents lived in Sacramento. I visited them often, sometimes spending weeks with them in the summer. We used to go to the Zoo, Fairytale Town, Funderland and other local amusement places whenever I was visiting. He went to all those places, too. We’re only 2½ yrs apart in age, so we very likely could have been at these places at the same time.
My partner and I have a 20-year age difference, but possibly when I was in my 20s and he was a child. He was raised in Manhattan, so we could have been two of the anonymous millions passing each other every day.
In the pilot of “Dharma and Greg,” a short flashback shows them as kids, crossing paths in the NYC subway.
Both my family and my wife’s family took vacations to Disneyland in 1985. It was the park’s 30th Anniversary, and they were giving away random door prizes at the gates. Mrs.Gnu won a one-day pass that she now keeps in a frame; it says July 18. I remember missing a week of school for our trip, so probably not in July. We both, at toddler age, visited in 1980, so perhaps then.
Once or twice we visited relatives in Sunnyvale, which borders Santa Clara where she grew up. No matter how unlikely, it was possible we crossed paths on one of those trips.
We grew up in different countries thousands of kilometres from each other. However, she had relatives in Belgium and spent one summer here with them. She stayed in a town that was not close to where I lived or studied but Belgium is not exactly huge and they visited lots of places in and out of the country that summer.
Highly unlikely. His family moved a lot with his dad’s job and vacations were a regular part of their summers - mostly camping. My family lived in the same house for 23 years, and after 3 of the 5 of us were on our own, my folks bought the house where my widowed mother lives now - she’s been there since 1979. Apart from a few day trips to places like Gettysburg or DC, our only “vacations” involved visiting out of state relatives for a few days. When I was in high school, we did get to stay at the ocean for a whole week once, but that was it.
I don’t think we were ever in the same place at the same time till we were in the Navy and both ended up at the same base. Even then, if I hadn’t decided to take sailing lessons when he was teaching sailing, we would probably have never met.
At the bottom of my primary school playground was half-pipe. In our final year, when boys had suddenly become very interesting, we used to go down there and watch the boys skate. One of them was my SO, though I didn’t know it. I bet I had a crush on him though!
Yes. We both went to a concert in Providence: Bo Diddley, Tower of Power and Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was also the first rock concert experience for both of us.
Not as kids because we lived in different countries, but after she moved to the US we were often at the same concerts. During our first conversation one of us would mention a show and the other would say, “I was there too.” Some of them were relatively small venues so it’s possible that we at least got a glimpse of each other.
