I was in Ireland with my parents in 93. My parents had been out to the pub and met another Dutch couple that stayed at the same hostel.
At morning we joined them at the breakfast table and introduced me: ‘this is our son, x’. Now you must know that my name is quite uncommon, as in is the only way I’m in the 1%.
The guy said, I once met a bit with that name in Yugoslavia, in 84. He had helped that boy het back his swimming shoes from the bottom of the bay. That boy was me. If my name was more common we’d never have known that we met before almost a decade ago.
Pretty cool, obviously reminiscing a bit and we ended up sea fishing together on the ocean… Probably nowadays we would’ve exchanged social media, but we went our separate ways.
Still hoping I’ll run into him once again but that hasn’t happened.
I was in Ireland with my parents in 93. My parents had been out to the pub and met another Dutch couple that stayed at the same hostel.
At morning we joined them at the breakfast table and introduced me: ‘this is our son, x’. Now you must know that my name is quite uncommon, as in is the only way I’m in the 1%.
The guy said, I once met a bit with that name in Yugoslavia, in 84. He had helped that boy het back his swimming shoes from the bottom of the bay. That boy was me. If my name was more common we’d never have known that we met before almost a decade ago.
Holy shit, that’s nuts! How did the rest of the conversation go?
Pretty cool, obviously reminiscing a bit and we ended up sea fishing together on the ocean… Probably nowadays we would’ve exchanged social media, but we went our separate ways.
Still hoping I’ll run into him once again but that hasn’t happened.