Saturday, June 12, 2010

Paths crossing....... again...

Assuming that you and your significant other did not live in the same locale as each other all of your life, did you ever cross paths before meeting the last time? Even unknowingly?

Here's the story of a couple, one from Canada, the other from Florida, who were at Disney World (at the same time - not knowing each other) while they were kids. Later in life they went on to meet and marry. The couple were going through some old family pictures, when he sees his dad pushing him in a stroller in the background of her family picture taken at Disney World. Fate or destiny drew them together.

I discovered a while after I met Darlene in Kingston Ontario in 1987 that she had also been in Kingston in the early 1980s when I first arrived there for my military trades training. It is very likely that we went to the same bars and danced along to the same music but never met (she was separated from her husband at the time). She left Kingston with her then husband to go to Nova Scotia, back to Kingston, then to Germany, only to arrive back in Kingston in 1986. We met 6 months later at a party neither of us were going to attend until the last minute.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A couple of decades ago I worked at a Photo finishing lab. Mitch was a customer of this lab, but we never met. It's odd, we have some of the same friends, but never knew each other until 10 years ago next week.

ps, are you and Darlene still planning a trip to Seattle?

Karl Plesz said...

Yes we are. We'll be in touch once we're settled in Kirkland (where we're staying). Will be arriving on the 20th.