22 Unexpected Places People Somehow Bumped into a Friend

The idea that pretty much anything can happen at any time is something that fuels paranoia in the pessimistic and gives hope to the optimistic. But even those with the cheeriest of dispositions can be taken aback by chance encounters. Imagine repeatedly running into an ex-girlfriend from decades ago in three different countries (Mexico, Japan and Korea, respectively). You gotta wonder what kind of magnetism is at play when that kind of thing happens. 

To that end, Redditors have shared the most unexpected places they’ve run into a friend, and what they say is true — it really is a small world after all.