Random people you keep bumping into a lot but who you don't know?

There's this one woman I keep bumping into all the time. She goes to the same café where me and a bunch of my friends often hang out, she's often on the same bus route as I am and I also bump into her quite a lot just on the street. She's really pretty, around her 30s, has a cute little boy who is very loud and a husband. She seems really nice and friendly and seems to have a lot of friends (I know coz she comes to the café with lots of different people). I also know that she works in a bank and some other things about her and her life just from overhearing her talking with someone else. I've never talked with her, but whenever we see each other we exchange smiles coz obviously she recognizes me as well. It's strange.

There's also this gay couple who apparently live quite close to where I live. I see them taking walks on the beach all the time, they shop in the same grocery store as I do and one of them I often see coming home from work when I come home from uni. They make a pretty scary looking couple really... They're both really big and muscular, have lots of tattoos and piercings. One is bald and the other one has a mohawk. It looks kinda surreal to see them walking on the street hand in hand... Again, never talked with either of them but they always smile at me when we see each other.

There are a few other people too that I seem to bump into wherever I go, never talked with any of them but we still seem to recognize each other..

It's pretty funny.. I feel like I see these people so often that really I should know them, if that makes sense. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to just go and talk to these people but yet I never actually do it. But still, it'd be interesting to know what kinda people they really are coz I have these ideas of them and their lives inside my head but the reality is probably really different..

So do you have people in your lives who you keep bumping into a lot but don't really know at all?

 

the world is so small sometimes...even with the hugeness of it all...everyone seems to know everyone

 

Haha, this is a great thread.

I always end up striking conversations with people I see frequently. Meeting new people is fun, especially if you see them... ya know, you wonder about them... what they do, and so on. Reminds me of the whole photo thing in the movie Amalie.

Right now I don't bump into anyone, for I live in the middle of nowhere.

Back in Arkansas I would always bump into the same people at gas stations and on campus... I would eventually just talk to them.

Ended up buying drugs from one of them too

 

Yes, well, kind of, I talk to this really friendly father at my oldest son's school everyday, I know where he works, how old his kids are, his work schedule, where he lives, where he went to high school, I can reconize his kids every time they come out of the building, but I have no freaking clue what the heck his name is!

There's a lot of parents that I say hi to or see every day at my son's school but don't really know a whole lot about them...although I do find out some juicy gossip about some of them through my son. He gives me the low-down.

 

theres alot of people liek that around here.. you see them in the grocery store or at the laundry mat at school and I see alot of them at the shelter looking for pets.. some of them are grumpy.. theres this one family though that comes in thats sooo heart warming.. for some reason like all I can think of is the family from lady and the tramp and they've adopted 3 long haired cats from me... I know the son rides for a polo team.. the daughter is like hella crazy smart but she's really quiet.. I think they are originally from like jersey or something.. but its jsut the cutest little family..

 

I used to live in Reading, PA. I noticed people got grumpy in the winter, same here in Oregon. I guess it's the weather.

 

Ohhh yes. There's one guy who kind of looks like someone I went to high school with, but not quite. Like maybe a younger brother of him, or something. Anyways, I always see him around Place Riel (our entrance to university, essentially, riht by the uni's busmall)

And another guy who I had a class with last term, I keep seeing him on Wednesdays. I'm actually tempted to appraoch both of them, but this guy especially, to be all "IK keep seein gyou everwhere, maybe it'd be less creepy for me to notic eyou all the time if I actually knew you" only, y'know, less drunkenly than that. Anywho, this guy who I had a class with and see on Wdendsays has long hair andis older than most uni studnets (like, early 30s), smokes and has a kid (he smokes at the bus stop and talked about having a kid in our class together last term)

 

There are so many strangers i bump into so many times. and the strange thing is i see them in different places even far from the last place i saw them.... it's funny...but i never talk to them.... we just usually look at each other and smile.

 

well, since i don't know who they are myself, i don't quite know how i'd be able to tell anyone else. i'm not very good at describing people anyway.

on the third hand, i so seldom leave the house, and there's so seldom anyone here other then my wife and myself, there really isn't any tangable physical humans i keep bumping into all the time at all, just a bunch of good friend spirit people and critters.

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When I was at the beach over the summer I ran into the same guy at the same gas station at the same time three days in a row.

That tripped me out. We both started laughing about it and having small conversations because the first night it was midnight and I was soaking wet cause I had just been in the ocean and he asked me about the ocean temp. and said he wanted to swim that night....

The next night near midnight, there he was and asked me "did you go swimming tonight?" I told him no and we both laughed about some stuff and then the next night around midnight...there he was. And he always walked in after me and was right behind me in line.