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Location: Brisbane Australia | I ended up with a supposedly mint 82 Collectors from a seller in Rapid Springs SD.
Seeing it was SD I contacted our Alison(Canterbury Strings) to find out how far she was from him and could I get the guitar sent to her.
She replied it was 50 miles and she would happily collect it for me.
I sent her the sellers details and it turns out they are friends, not only that but she knew and had dealings with the previous owner as well.
It is a small world and you have to love this place.
Thankyou Alison
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by AussieJames:
It is a small world and you have to love this place. As much as I dislike the Disney song (heard it way too many times...), James, you're oh so right!
Alison is just another global enablerette! :D
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Location: Tennessee | Is that a dancing banana? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Is that a dancing banana? Naw, it's a post-'green' Al Gore doing the Macarena prior to...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That banana split looks darn good !!! |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Twenty six years ago my wife Pearl is taking the subway to the city.I didn't know her at that time. It was four years before I met her. She bumps into a co-worker named Kit at a station. Kit asks my wife for directions for a house in Rego Park. She points her in the right direction. Kit was on her way to a bridal shower for my sister Julie at my parent's house.
Another time my cousin Holly comes into town from Seatle with her mom. She had made arrangements to meet a friend of hers' that lived close by.
I come home from work and her friend is in the house. Her friend turns out to be a girl that I know from St. John's Univ. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Great stories!! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Yeah, when AJ told me it was in Rapid City I figured I probably knew him. Then when I saw his first name I was certain. This is a small area, and most musicians in the Hills know each other. The coolest part is that he was selling the guitar for a friend whom I also know. HE is more of a collector than a player, so this guitar is truly like new. I'll be going to pick it up (and jam a little with my friend, no doubt) on Sunday. Looking forward to it. I'll bring my camera too.
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Location: Newington, CT | True story: I was an exchange student in Paris. I was walking to school at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and was a bit early. I decided to duck into a bookstore that I had seen, but never entered, while walking to school. I was checking out the books when the phone rang. The proprietor answered the phone, said a few things, called me over and said, "Is this for you?"
The person, calling from the United States, had tried to dial my HOME number, but mis-dialed and got the bookstore. The bookstore proprietor didn't understand English, and would have hung-up, but he saw a big ol' blonde guy, who looked like an American, perusing his books and decided to take a flyer. It was, indeed, for me. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Wow Alan, that IS freaky!
As long as we're telling stories like this - When I moved here from Connecticut, I arrived at 8:45 PM. The next morning I went out to explore my new town. I went into a restaurant and a lady at a nearby table smiled and said "Hi". After finishing my meal I wandered into the bookstore and was telling the propriator that I had just moved here from Connecticut. Well, just as I was saying it, the smiling lady from the restaurant walked in and said, "I'M from Connecticut too". We looked at each other for a second and the lightbulb came on. She had been a customer at a restaurant I used to work at, and had lived in the next town over. She and her husband had been living in Hot Springs for four years. Through them I met another couple from a Connecticut town I knew well. Keep in mind that Hot Springs has a population of just over 4,000. What are the odds? |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Originally posted by AlanM:
True story: I was an exchange student in Paris. I was walking to school at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and was a bit early. I decided to duck into a bookstore that I had seen, but never entered, while walking to school. I was checking out the books when the phone rang. The proprietor answered the phone, said a few things, called me over and said, "Is this for you?"
The person, calling from the United States, had tried to dial my HOME number, but mis-dialed and got the bookstore. The bookstore proprietor didn't understand English, and would have hung-up, but he saw a big ol' blonde guy, who looked like an American, perusing his books and decided to take a flyer. It was, indeed, for me. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
That's a great story! |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Here's another one. When I was in high school there was another Phil Wong. But he spelled his name with 2 l's and has a middle intial J. We were even in the same Biology class. I know that his parent's know my aunt. That's number one. Not so uncommon.
I was pulled out of class and brought to the principal's office. It turns out that they were looking for the other Phil. Number two.
Applying for college they sent the wrong transcipts for each of us to each other's college. Number three.
I was not every good at the dating scene. I probably play guitar better by comparison so that's pretty bad. I have a good friend Linda who I met in my freshman year in college. As It turns out we worked together since 1983. For three years in one hospital and currently today in another.
During this time a friend of mine Sam, called me almost in total shock and some disapointment. Sam wanted to know why I never told hime that I was dating a girl named Nancy. My response was Nancy who? I realized by my friends information that he was actually talking about Linda's cousin. Number four |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by scooterboy:
Originally posted by AlanM:
True story: I was an exchange student in Paris. I was walking to school at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and was a bit early. I decided to duck into a bookstore that I had seen, but never entered, while walking to school. I was checking out the books when the phone rang. The proprietor answered the phone, said a few things, called me over and said, "Is this for you?"
The person, calling from the United States, had tried to dial my HOME number, but mis-dialed and got the bookstore. The bookstore proprietor didn't understand English, and would have hung-up, but he saw a big ol' blonde guy, who looked like an American, perusing his books and decided to take a flyer. It was, indeed, for me. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
That's a great story!
I actually forgot some details that, believe it or not, make it even a tad freakier: The caller was my mother. And she hadn't really mis-dialed, it turned out. She had correctly dialed the INCORRECT home number that I had sent her by mail some weeks before. In sending the number, I had transposed two numbers and had, by accident, sent her the book store's number...a number I had never known. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Quick! Gotta put this post in to get away from the bad number of posts! |
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Location: Location Location Location | AussieJames, you're right..it IS a small world. Great story! :D |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | When I joined this club there was already a member in California who has the same last name as me. Years later a guy from down under joins that also has the same last name as us. ;) :p |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Two Wongs don't make a right, but three Wongs make the OFC ALRIGHT! :D |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | :) :p :cool: |
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Location: closely held secret | Imagine... 3 Wongs on a site with over 7000 members. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Yeah Wabbit what are the chances of that. Hey I think I can do the math without taking off my shoes. :cool: |
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Location: closely held secret | Miss ya, Phil. It's been years. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | It's been 2 years + since the last t---. I'll never forget how much fun it was driving back from Ski Sundown to the hotel in pitch black with low visibility. My then GPS always loosing the signal and the sweet womans' voice annoucing those unforgetable words "OFF ROUTE, RECALCULATING". |
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Location: closely held secret | "YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR, PLEASE MAKE A U-TURN AT THE FIRST SAFE OPPORTUNITY" |
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Location: Location Location Location | Two Wongs don't make a right, but three Wongs make the OFC ALRIGHT! All right Alison, time to put the bong down. :rolleyes: ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by GaryB:
All right Alison, time to put the bong down. Ya mean it's the Wong bong?!?!?
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Wong bong long gone. |
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Location: closely held secret | Good one. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have only once had my Polish name confused with someone else. If someone shares my last name, it is a fairly close relative.
After working on a brief construction project one summer in Chariton, Iowa, I got a followup call from the foreman, wanting to hire back some of the crew for another job. He told me he lost the job records and could only remember nicknames. Mine was Pollock. I asked how he remembered my name to know to call me. He said he looked in the phone book until he found a name that looked Polish. The town had about 5000 people, so I asked him how many Polish names he called before he got to mine, which begins with a P. He said I was the first one. I guess the Polish minority in Chariton was even smaller than I thought. |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Two Wongs don't make a right, but three Wongs make the OFC ALRIGHT! [Big Grin]
Is this Phil, or did I ring the Wong number? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | WOW!! I just picked up AJ's guitar. It is in pristine condition, not a mark on it anywhere. It plays like a dream, and it might just be the best sounding O I have ever heard! It is LOUD, and it rings, and I sure wish I could keep it. I'll be taking it home with me tonight, then tomorrow it'll be on the way to Austrailia. Now the problem is, I want one.... |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Alison, Thankyou so much!!
No rush to send it out, enjoy it for a bit if you want.
Post a few pics, it would be great to have some pics from whence it came
You have to love this place!!
Thankyou all my OFC friends!!
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It's a small world...cool story.