Strange story from Las Vegas

[Dan E 1,612]

Ok what are the odds on this, so as some of you know I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago for a wedding of my wife’s cousin. So cousin Jo was marrying a Scottish chap. 

Off to the stag night and how it is with these  things we are on a long table Scots one end and South London on the other, I only know one of these chaps but end up sitting next to a guy called Ollie, we get chatting and obviously the conversation comes around to cars, he loves 911s ( as I was on a stag and didn’t know anyone I let that go) so I mention I am a lotus man. 

Show a few pictures and then he said my cousin owns a Lotus, now I am interested. He says yep,  it’s green. Oh hold on what one is it. Not sure! Pull the phone out and show him @makkyh Elite yep that’s it, how the fuck do you know Rick. So we do a selfie send to Rick who is what the fuck! 

Now my wife has known Ollies Wife for 30 years and I have known Rick for 20 years and we have never made the connection. 

So what did we do went and had a beer last friday together so Lotus give you friends. 

[Giniw 298]

21 minutes ago, Dan E said:

( as I was on a stag and didn’t know anyone I let that go)

lol (you shouldn't have, though! )

 

[Barrykearley 7,311]

Should have dumped him with the trans hooker

[Spinney 777]

It is a small world sometimes. We spent Christmas 2016 in New York and on Christmas Eve had dinner in a pub/restaurant just off Times Square. Just after we'd sat down and ordered drinks, the owner was going round the tables chatting to the customers.

Eventually he came to us and started with the usual "Hi folks, where are you guys from?" I replied with my standard response when in foreign parts of "about 50 miles west of London, England."

Ok, he said, what town?

"Oh you won't have heard of it, it's a place called Farnham."

"Yes, I know it," he said and at this point, his previous US accent changed to a southern Brit accent.

"Ah right, you're one of us" I said. "How do you know it"?

"I was born in Aldershot where my dad was in the army and lived in the area until I was 16. Do you know Ramillies Road"?

"Yes" I said "I bought a car from an army guy who lived there back in '76, a Cortina 1600E." 

"Yeah? Can you remember his name"? 

"Actually I can as it was an unusual name". I told him the name and imagine my surprise when he said "That's my dad"!

I told him I remember two small kids, a boy and a girl, when I went to look at the car and it turns out that was him and his twin sister, aged 4 at the time.

A truly incredible coincidence.

 

 

 

 

[Bibs 11,884]

That is nuts!

When I moved to Ryarsh and my new neighbour saw my Lotus he said he had a friend with a friend who ran a Lotus club. Turned out the friend of a friend was me!