Conference hydra::dejavu

780.0. "Lost and Found" by UBOHUB::HOOD_S () Tue Jun 28 1988 13:00

    
    
    Hello Friends,
    
    I have just been shown this conference and have been fascinated
    by the content of it.
    
    I felt I must tell you about a wonderful thing that happened to
    me last May (1986) after a year with Digital.
    
    I used to work in the Field Servie Department here at Wimgrove House
    and received many customer 'phone calls about various things.  One
    day, I answered a colleagues 'phone and had to deal with an angry
    customer who had come through to the WRONG department and the one
    he wanted when I tried to transfer him was ENGAGED.  As a consequence,
    I had to take his name and number in order for someone to call him
    back.  On hearing his name SPENCER HOOD, my heart felt as if it
    had stopped.  Years ago, as a curious seven or eight year old I
    was told by my father about his sad family which due to divorces
    and deaths had been broken up to the extent that he had 'lost' his
    half brother when my father was about ten years old (he is now fifty
    four).  His half brother's name was - SPENCER HOOD.  Unusual and
    individual enough for me to recognise it fifteen years later during
    this 'phone call.
    
    I couldn't ask this man if he was my Uncle, from shock as well as
    the fact that it was a complaint with which he was calling!  I
    therefore rang his company back, spoke to a very understanding
    personnel lady and checked ages and dates with her.  They tallied
    correctly, and I left my number.
    
    On reaching home, my 'phone was already ringing and a voice said
    "Hello, I think you are my niece!"  It was as if I knew from the
    moment he said his name that it must be him and I had already
    telephoned my Dad to tell him I thought I had found his brother
    by accident, but he didn't believe it until he rang back.
    
    My Dad and his brother met each other for the first time in all
    those years on 21st July last year - my parents' Silver Wedding
    Anniversary and everyone in my department thinks there must be
    something very strange about me as this is not the first time someone
    'lost' to me has homed in like this!
    
    Has anyone else any similar experiences or any comments on this?
    
    SANDY.
    

	WOW! I'm impressed !

	The reunion must have been something. To say its a small world
    would be trite, but there you have it. I wonder if perhaps similar
    chance encounters don't happen more often, but with people whose
    names aren't as distinctive ? I have known relatives with names
    like McKinnon, and Walker. How many distant or not-so-distant relatives
    have I met that I'm not aware of ? I don't know, but sometimes wonder
    when I encounter a family name.

Scooter

    Checkout Note # 652 for coincidences I'm still discovering...MWR