Where is the most random place you have bumped into someone you went to school with?

I never have, not anyone I went to school with. However when we were on our honeymoon* dh bumped into an old schoolfriend on the veranda outside the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi. He was a zoologist, in Kenya for some survey or study of elephants in Tsavo park.
*Having just left my airline job, I had got us concessionary tickets to Nairobi - £16 return!
Also took my parents there for the same fares.

I joined a knit and natter group held in a retirement complex, not much knitting gets done, when a resident walked in and gave me a curious look, she asked if she knew me from somewhere. After going through all the places we could have met it turned out we were in infants school together 65 years ago.

Chennai- India (both of us from Wales)

I went to a small village school in the UK and some years later I walked into a huge building in Brisbane to get my visa renewed and the woman behind the counter had been in the same school.

My friends son was standing at a bus stop in Australia. A young man asked him if he'd gone to school in Belfast. Turns out they both went to the same school.

I went to work in London in my early twenties. Someone I had been to school with at 14 turned up as a temp - weirdly I recognised her and even remembered her name even though she wasn't someone I ever knew that well. I had moved away at 14 and she was able to fill me in on what happened to a lot of the people we went to school with.

But I don't think she liked being recognised - the next day she refused to come in and told her agency someone had been abusive to her and a different temp arrived. I hadn't asked her a lot of questions about herself, and it made me wonder what she had been up to that she didn't want coming out 🤔

After College, I did some temporary work taking over from someone who had the same name as me and was expecting a baby on my DD’s birthday.

Not quite the same, but very surprising. When I was in my fifties, and living and working fifty miles from my home town and primary school, a young lady came to my workplace prior to starting her new job there. She stopped and chatted to me for a while. There was such a familiarity that I finally asked her if her mum was a twin. She was very surprised, but replied that she was. I asked - ??? or ???. She told me which one, hardly believing that I could have guessed that. She looked and sounded so like those twins whom I hadn’t seen for over forty years that it just had to be one of them. She couldn’t wait to tell her mum and aunt. Interestingly, she said that everyone told her that she looked like her dad!

Snuggy. I think it's time for some input from you.
You now know a bit about a lot of people on this forum. We know nothing whatsoever about you.
Funny that!!??

Live aid concert back I the day! She was the school bully so I ignored her!

I am most unlikely to ever meet anyone I went to school with, as I left Scotland where in all I had attended three different schools when I was 16.

I returned to study in my forties and my first day at uni there was someone I was at primary school with.

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GNHQ have replied and are asking for our opinions.

At the beginning of a coach tour of America, in a hotel in New York

I started to reply on your thread but a black box came over my message and I can't!

Very strange.

That was to Abnuyc123 btw!

a neighbour from a house I lived in 20 years before at Auckland Airport they were on the way bto OZ we were on the way to UK

Not a school friend but a teacher at high school who belittled me at school, told me I was useless! I did badly! Many years later when I was a night sister far away from my home town I went to give a lady her IV drugs.It was her, I smiled sweetly at her, she did not recognise me. It did freak me out!

A gal and her gentleman in a shop in The Centre of The Madrid Capital.

She recognised me .. It was very lovely and approx. 30 years perhaps.

In a post office in York (we were visiting my parents). We were both living in Singapore at the time, her husband a colleague of my husband. She overheard my giving my unusual name

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@Allira

In a small town in India. We’re both from the UK.

In the Lake District in a garden centre.

I met someone I went to school with in Charles De Gaul airport in Paris and one of my old students in a department store in Christchurch New Zealand.

DH met his Singaporean school friend at Dartmouth Navel College 6 yrs after leaving Singapore. He met the same friend years later in the training centre at Heathrow. Small world.

We also had a funny encounter in Tesco Handforth Dean Cheshire after we get back from visiting the USA we went shopping at about 2am and the only other customer was a chap called Ed. He was with Federal Aviation Authority, DH knew him so of course they had to have a technical conversation in the middle of the store at that ungodly hour and all I wanted was to gt to bed :-)

DH has bumped into other colleagues and ex students in some unusual places like Uzbekistan, Entebbe, Santiago plus the usual UAE, round Europe and the med. It really can be a small world.