What are the odds?
I remember that time that a girl I knew in real life randomly showed up on the boards and posted like 12 times. I was like, holy shit, my sanctum has been compromised. Good thing she left. I mean, since I stayed around so well and all.......
Real life "what-are-the-odds" stories from you - GO!
A woman I knew in Pittsburgh posted here twice. I hid for, like, two weeks until I was sure she was gone.
This is why we can't have nice things.
So, yeah, that's always weird.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Luckily no one I know in real life hangs around the Cult.
Someone who posts here now knows someone I know/knew. I've never brought it up.
Now I am paranoid.
You, too?
This is why we can't have nice things.
If it is me then the odds are it is someone I knew online at some point... and all I have to say is I used to be younger than I am now! So I hope you cut me some slack Hattie!!!!
You're both safe, sillies.
*whew*
That would've been too weird.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I've told some people of my involvement in this site, and I'm afraid some of them will come in here lurking on me. Including a crazy ex.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
On Halloween, when it was late and my mom and I were smashed, I came on the cult and she came over to see what I was doing and now she knows about a bunch of you.
I was all "lalal la so drunk. this is irina and that is alecia and this is lib and that is tuffy and this is jazzy. and they are all awesome for all these awesome reasons lalal lala.
She never internets at all and it blew her mind and she thinks you guys are fantastic and the whole idea of a forum is the best thing ever and tried to talk to me a couple times about it and I keep pretending I don't have a clue what she is talking about. She will never find this place unless I help out again, but *groan* and *dammit*
Yeah mum's very interested too, but she doesn't understand the Internet.
Today at the Christmas Fair I realised I have better ideas for most of you people than for the girlfriends in real life that I actually have to buy gifts for.
I was all "lalal la so drunk. this is irina and that is alecia and this is lib and that is tuffy and this is jazzy. and they are all awesome for all these awesome reasons lalal lala.
You didn't introduce ME????????
Couple of what are the odds real life stories:
When I was in highschool there was a girl at my school that was 20, my school had different programs for kids up to the age of 22 for different things, I had a couple of my parenting classes with her and we started to make friends and she told me about this lady she met recently that was a bit older but sort of cool and they were making friends, meanwhile my mom was telling me about this younger girl she met and made friends with that she thought was in her early twenties but was pretty mature etc.
One night my mom tells me that girl she knows is coming over and that she is a little older than me but we might get a long. It ended up being the girl I was going to school with and it was super awkward when she walked in. Everybody stopped being friends with each other after that, because of how awkward it was.
Another what are the odds, a couple of months before I met James I left an amber ring of mine on the sink in a restaurant bathroom, I just went in to use really quickly, by accident. It turns out James worked there as a dishwasher and he found the ring and had held on to it for a while just because. Unfortunately he no longer had it, he had just sold it to someone because holding on to a woman's ring seemed silly. Would have been a better story had he still had it.
I was all "lalal la so drunk. this is irina and that is alecia and this is lib and that is tuffy and this is jazzy. and they are all awesome for all these awesome reasons lalal lala.
You didn't introduce ME????????
You are too fucking awesome to even begin to explain.
My mom's head would have exploded.
Drew sat behind me in 10th grade Biology and we hardly ever spoke. Eighteen years or so later we're married.
The best friend I have is a kid whose name is also Isaac. We met in high school, Freshmen year, first period, sitting next to eachother. Turns out he lived a couple of blocks away from me. Turned out we both liked skating. Turned out we both had the same taste in women. And although he doesn't know it (for good, shameful, and slightly obvious reasons), we're Eskimo brothers.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
If anyone I know ever gets on The Cult I will kill them. Xia new I posted on hear a lot but knew better than to get involved.
I have lost off odd odds stories but I cant remember A singe one right now?
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
This does things to my heart.
It is super Cute.
How I met one of my seriouse girlfriend Casey went a little like this.
She took a picture of me downtown with my two toned hair, it was quite popular on a few portland photography websites. I kept hearing about it but never saw it.
Friend sends me a link, I find out who takes the pictures, come to find out we have mutual friends.
I message her and from there it went really well.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Chenoa's a friend of a friend I have in real life.
If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get back in touch with eachother?
oh yes alecia, tell us about romance !
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When I was eighteen-ish I found a wallet on the ground and when I looked inside it it the ID showed that it belonged to the girl I was best friends with in the fifth grade, who I hadn't seen since.
When I was in my mid twenties my mom called me to tell me the lady that helped her at the cell phone store she went to, in another state, was a girl I went to school with in sixth and seventh grade. (she recognized my moms last name and asked if she had a daughter named Amber)
A fun one- my grandma's hobby for the last few decades has been genealogy; one day she was in a library researching and the lady at the table next to her and her began chatting, it turned out they were there researching the same ancestor and they were in fact third cousins.
Somebody needs to get on the maths of what the odds of everyone's things are already now.
I have one but I'm not ready to share it just yet. And I don't do math sooo sorry.
If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get back in touch with eachother?
We had a bunch of mutual friends on Facebook and then we added each other and he sent me a couple of friendly messages. He asked for my number one day so we could catch up, and when he called me a couple of days later, our first conversation on the phone lasted for about 2 1/2 hours (awwww). This was in late June of 2009. He suggested that we have dinner or something the next time I was in Atlanta, and since I had a reason to be there in late July, we got together and the rest is history!
We had a long distance relationship for awhile because I was here in Birmingham and he was in Atlanta, but we took turns going back and forth. At first, we could only see each other every other weekend because I didn't want to bring anyone around my kids too soon. He'd come here when the boys were at their dad's, and then the next time I'd go to Atlanta, and so on. When we'd been seeing each other about six months, we mutually agreed that the time was right to introduce the kids (they knew I'd been seeing him...just didn't meet him until then). Once that happened, we got to be together every weekend. He'd come here when I had my kids, and then I'd go there when it was Jeff's weekend with them.
Once he proposed in November of 2010(omg was I surprised!), we started planning the transition for him to come here. Because of the children, we didn't want to live together without being married (I'm old fashioned, I know), so initially he wasn't planning on moving here until closer to the wedding. He ended up getting a good job opportunity in May of 2011, so he moved in with us early. It all worked out nicely. 
But I swear, if someone would've told me I'd grow up to marry anyone I'd gone to high school with I'd have laughed at them!
I married a good friend's wife.
Are you still good friends?
If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get back in touch with eachother?
We had a bunch of mutual friends on Facebook and then we added each other and he sent me a couple of friendly messages. He asked for my number one day so we could catch up, and when he called me a couple of days later, our first conversation on the phone lasted for about 2 1/2 hours (awwww). This was in late June of 2009. He suggested that we have dinner or something the next time I was in Atlanta, and since I had a reason to be there in late July, we got together and the rest is history!
We had a long distance relationship for awhile because I was here in Birmingham and he was in Atlanta, but we took turns going back and forth. At first, we could only see each other every other weekend because I didn't want to bring anyone around my kids too soon. He'd come here when the boys were at their dad's, and then the next time I'd go to Atlanta, and so on. When we'd been seeing each other about six months, we mutually agreed that the time was right to introduce the kids (they knew I'd been seeing him...just didn't meet him until then). Once that happened, we got to be together every weekend. He'd come here when I had my kids, and then I'd go there when it was Jeff's weekend with them.
Once he proposed in November of 2010(omg was I surprised!), we started planning the transition for him to come here. Because of the children, we didn't want to live together without being married (I'm old fashioned, I know), so initially he wasn't planning on moving here until closer to the wedding. He ended up getting a good job opportunity in May of 2011, so he moved in with us early. It all worked out nicely.
But I swear, if someone would've told me I'd grow up to marry anyone I'd gone to high school with I'd have laughed at them!
Gosh, that's such a nice story. Does your high school know? Bet they'd love to hear that you're both now married.
Oh yeah, they know. We had quite a few classmates at our wedding and are friends with a couple of teachers from back then. We have our twenty year reunion coming up next year, too, so that'll be fun.
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Oooh, don't worry 'bout it. Itz all good.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Lovely story, Alecia! I'm glad you guys found eachother.
It is a very nice story.
Eskimo brothers! One of my favorite episodes of The League.
Found a dog on in a parking lot one day. He jumped in my car and after about an hour of asking around the place no one knew whos dog he was. I went home made posters. Started hanging them up and all of a sudden a cop rolls up behind me asking where I got the dog. I explained what was going on and he said an old lady called the fuzz frantic because her dog got out. It was a slow day so the cops kept there eyes out. I gave the cop the pup and went on my way.
Next day in the local paper theres an article. "I didnt think kids who looked like that did things like this, What are the odds"
Best quote ever. Never got to meet the lady but through mutual friends I guess she was in a panic about her dog getting out.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
No--but all that was over before I started dating his ex-wife... but it's not as funny if I say it that way.
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