University friends

In my second year at Bristol Poly in 1993 a man joined my course from being on a sandwich year - having undertaken a placement in his second year, whereas I was continuing from my first year. He was from Cardiff. I was from Bournemouth. We didn't hit it off to start with so we'd known each other a few months when we got round to small talk about where we were from. I said I was from Bournemouth. He said, oh I know someone from Bournemouth. And I said "Oh it's actually Ferndown - just outside Bournemouth". He said - "oh yes my friend is from Ferndown". I asked who it was, and it was my first boyfriends brother. It turned out that my Uni friend had started a Law Degree before swapping to Marketing, and had been on the same course and shared a flat with my boyfriends brother, at the same time as I was going out with my boyfriend. He knew several other people that I knew. Perhaps this is simply a small world rather than a co-incidence, but I was pretty gobsmacked!