# The farthest you've been from home and saw someone you knew. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738 "2007-09-27T21:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/41 "2007-09-28T16:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I mean, I’m no expert, but I don’t think it’s so spectacularly unusual that one could pick it out from the swirling mass of all the world’s humanity! Perhaps he was a connoisseur. [/QUOTE] Clearly, this calls for a pictorial comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/42 "2007-09-28T16:54:22Z")
Not exactly the same thing, but I moved from Columbus Ohio 3 years ago. I was chatting with a girl in the office I now work in in LA and we discovered that we had lived one street away from each other in Columbus. So I very well might have run into her back in Ohio and just not realized it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/43 "2007-09-28T17:36:26Z")
I bumped into an ex-girlfriend on the street while on holiday in Cabo San Lucas with my then-current girlfriend. That was a bit awkward, 'cuz we parted amicably enough. Under the circumstances, how long is an appropriate time to spend acknowledging the coincidence? (Under a minute was about all I could handle.) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/44 "2007-09-28T18:29:30Z")
I ran into an old college classmate (from western New York) at the top of Zion National Park’s [Angel’s Landing](http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/NorthAmerica/USA/Utah/images/UtahZionAngelsLanding01.jpg) in southern Utah. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/45 "2007-09-28T18:37:54Z")
I was in a dive hotel in the middle of the Amazon. As I was locking the door (don’t even know why I bothered), I saw some girl struggling to get her gear on her shoulders. So I helped her out and saw it was the girl that lived a block away for my whole childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738/46 "2007-09-28T18:50:53Z")
[QUOTE=Layla01] My hubby and I ran into one of his workmates (who sits about six feet from him) twice by accident in Los Angeles on our honeymoon - once at Disneyland and the next day at Universal Studios. That was very odd. [/QUOTE] Maybe not so much. You two were travelling, his buddy was travelling, and tourists tend to go to the same places. I imagine every single day we have numerous tourists in town, who go to Disneyland then Universal Studios on two successive days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-farthest-youve-been-from-home-and-saw-someone-you-knew/420738.md?page=2)