I think this is more filed under "it's a small world" but it has to do with the internet and it weirded me out.
My best friend in the fandom at the time lived half the country away. We ran in a pretty tight circle, and she and I started chatting with one of her friends, who she had told her a lot about me. We got along famously for a bit, our conversation wandered to RP, and LARPing that she had done for the first time. She mentioned she rode down with a girl, who had the same name as my roommate's boyfriend's sister. So I jokingly said "Not John's sister, right?" and she got quiet and said "how did you know her brother is named John?"
It turned out that this person I had never talked to before and just met through a friend halfway across the country knew my roommate and her boyfriend and had participated in the same LARP as them just a few weekends prior. It was super weird and really funny after the initial flail of HOW DO YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE HAVE I ACTUALLY MET YOU BEFORE!?
Re: weird internet happenstances
My best friend in the fandom at the time lived half the country away. We ran in a pretty tight circle, and she and I started chatting with one of her friends, who she had told her a lot about me. We got along famously for a bit, our conversation wandered to RP, and LARPing that she had done for the first time. She mentioned she rode down with a girl, who had the same name as my roommate's boyfriend's sister. So I jokingly said "Not John's sister, right?" and she got quiet and said "how did you know her brother is named John?"
It turned out that this person I had never talked to before and just met through a friend halfway across the country knew my roommate and her boyfriend and had participated in the same LARP as them just a few weekends prior. It was super weird and really funny after the initial flail of HOW DO YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE HAVE I ACTUALLY MET YOU BEFORE!?