Serendipity at the Slopes

[Lisamarie]

So, today was my first day of work at Copper. I finished my shift, and decided to eat lunch at Jacks. After I finished eating, I noticed a woman stretching her hip flexors. We started chatting, and she told me she had torn her ACL last season.

As one who never hesitates to give unsolicited advice,;) I offered her some post-rehab ideas.

Then, she says, "Are you Lisa?"

It was Little Lightning!

 

[Lynn]

The world is an amazingly small space and the internet is making it even smaller.
It's a wonderful thing when you are recognized in a positive way and not negative.
You go Lisamarie.

 

[ski diva]

That is so cool! What are the chances of that?

Ya gotta love it!

 

[Lisamarie]

The world is an amazingly small space and the internet is making it even smaller.
It's a wonderful thing when you are recognized in a positive way and not negative.
You go Lisamarie.

Aw Shucks!:o

 

[Quiver Queen]

Me next

I've never run into a woman I know while skiing, let alone randomly connect with someone I've read on line. So, when's my turn to have an experience like this?

 

[ski diva]

Come ski with some of us Divas at Okemo on Dec. 6 (see Meet on the Hill). Then you will!

 

[Lynn]

Last year at our annual ski trip to the Park City area, my husband and I were leaving the annual time share spiel at the Canyons. (Hey for $100 I can be had apres-ski for 60 min). They provide a ride back to your car in the enormous parking lot. There was another couple in the van. My husband started a conversation with other guy, I faded out a bit until I heard the guy say " I was on the lift last winter at Elk with a woman who lives near you upstate". This fellow was talking about me! I must look different without goggles and a helmet.:D
Small, small world.

 

[Lisamarie]

One of my most favorite coincidences happened on Epicski. I was talking about the group, The Band. Moguljunkie commented that he wished that he had listened to them more frequently when he was a kid, because he lived near them in Woodstock.

I told about an incident that happened about 25 years ago, when I was riding to Woodstock with my friends who lived there. We were playing The band on the tape deck, but their son and daughter wanted us to turn it off, because they did not want their friends to hear them listening to "hippy music!"

Guess who was the son!

It was an awesome experience, because his mom had been the bridesmaid at my wedding, and I had lost touch with her!

 

[Little Lightning]

I enjoyed meeting you Lisa, maybe we'll get to ski together.

My story of meeting someone through the internet. One day my sister e-mailed me and said "check this out, someone posted our grandfather's family tree on the internet".

For some reason my grandfather's family was unknown to us, we grew up with no cousin's, aunt's or uncle's on my mom's father's side of the family so this was quite a revelation. At the bottom of the post was a thank you to a couple of people who helped this person do the research so I googled one of the names. He had a web-site with an email address. It turns out he is a distant relative of my grandmother and he sent me pictures of her when she was a young woman. Through him I got the e-mail of the woman doing the research and it turns out we are second cousins.

And the ironic part of this whole story is that my partner worked with her at Proctor and Gamble and he had introduced me to her a few years ago.

We've had some long talks, we're the same age and as she described her life I felt that she was describing mine. We haven't been able to locate any more relatives but now we have each other.

Kathi