It's a Small World After All

Lately, I've noticed more and more how many different people know each other from various parts of life and how people are connected in ways that seem strange and random.  The other day I was at a cafe in Chicago with some friends from New Trier.  Most of these people don't go to the city very often but we all decided to take a step away from the North Shore for a night.  First,  I was going to the bathroom with my friend, Oana.  Right when we got to the bathroom, a boy who Oana went to school with when she was younger was coming out of the bathroom.   Later in the night, my friend Tyler ran into his co-worker from Homer's Ice Cream.  But it kept going! I was sitting on a couch and behind me was a curtain separating our table from the one behind us.  Suddenly, the curtain fell down revealing my ex-boyfriend sitting at that table!! I was shocked.  That part ended up being pretty awkward.  This night wasn't the only one where these coincidences popped up.  To name a few, my current boyfriend and I found out that we lived on the same street when we were younger but had no idea that each other existed. It gets more strange: Tag's Bakery is a local shop where I used to get huge smiley face cookies at lunchtime very often.  My boyfriend and I were walking past Tag's and he mentioned that he used to get smiley faces cookies during lunch when he was younger.  I found this very odd.  There's also the common situation where you find out that a couple people you know from very different places actually know each other.  I'm sure there are at least a thousand more instances that we could come up with about this "small world." Do you have any fun or interesting stories? How are all these people connected?