It's A Small World After All!

[crmsnrevelation]

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Would you believe?

If you check a Mississippi Map and look for Kosciusko, you might have to look for a while!
But out here in the middle of nowhere, the strangest thing happened.

I used to live in Philadelphia PA, and have learned to cook a pretty decent philly cheese steak. Now that I am here in Kosciusko I run a conscession trailer and sale primarily cheese steaks.
A Casino bus pulled up and several people got out and I noticed one of them was wearing a Crimson Tide Polo. I gave him a big ROLL TIDE and recieved a nice handshake and acknowledgement of my bama shirt.
He asked what I served and I told him primarily cheese steaks.
He flipped out and said he used to live in Philladelphia along with about 4 of his friends.
We did chat for a minute about football and the new stadium. He and I were both excited about the upcomming season and how the stadium will be. Wish I would have asked if he had some extra tickets.

Just a little story about "You never know when you will run into people" in the middle of nowhere!

[Nicodemus]

I met a girl from New Zealand on top of the lighthouse in St. Augustine last year. She saw my Bama hat and in her NZ accent said "Roll Tide." I was stunned someone from the South Pacific knew about Alabama football. Turns out she lives in the US now and used to be married to a Bama fan.

[theBIGyowski]

I went on a choir trip with my HS choir the summer after graduation. We went to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. While there we ran into a family who was from Alabama. I was wearing a shirt that had my HS on it...and found out after talking to the couple that they graduated from the same HS I did! Of course they graduated a good 10 years earlier than I did...but it was still amazing. Also...on that same trip...we sang at a church for their Sunday service...and there was an older man...probably 65 or so...that was wearing an Alabama shirt. He was very proud of it and let us all know that he was a foreign exchange student when he was younger and attended the University of Alabama. I think we were in Switzerland at the time. Anyway...talk about a small world. I met people that were on both sides of me at that time in my life. I had just graduated form HS...met a couple that graduated from the same HS...and I was about to start at Bama that fall...met a guy who was an exchange student at Bama when he was younger.

RTR!!!

[wastedmason]

Back in the fall of 1988, my cousin and I went to Allentown PA. to lay brick on a house for a contractor that my cousin had met in the Virgin Islands while doing stucco work down there. We left for Allentown the Sunday after Bama had beat Penn St. 8-3.

Monday evening after we had gotten settled in our motel we ventured into the nearest bar to the motel and give them yanks a hearty redneck southern Bama ribbing, lol! I tell you what them yanks didn't know what had happened to them. The crew I took with me loved to arm wrestle and shoot pool and they had them people thouroughly shook up! My cousin, a big barn fan was even hollering "ROLL TIDE" at the top of his lungs. It was a sight I promise you, but after a couple hours I seen that the establishment was getting a little worried, so I corralled my guys back to the motel.

We had been working on the house for about a week and one afternoon a man pulled up and got out wearing an Alabama baseball cap. The first thing he said was "Roll Tide", and of course he got a big "Roll Tide" right back. He introduced himself as the owner of the house and that when he heard the brickmasons laying his house were from Alabama he had to come by and meet us. Come find out his son was attending Bama.

Another thing that surprised me was that he said he had lived in PA all his life but the biggest ice storm he had ever seen was in Tuscaloosa one year while visiting his son. Maybe some of you remember it. I can't remember the guys name today but it wasn't Namath, lol! Too many dead brain cells from all the alcohol, lol!

[arabama]

I was recently visiting Hawaii with my wife we had just sat for a show at the CultureAL Center when a gentleman sat beside me. Without looking up he leaned over and remarked how much he liked my Bama shirt. It turns out he was from PA and a life long Bama fan. Said he had a pic he had made autographed by CPB the last week of his life!! He said he watched games every time he could and it was also a goal of his to attend a game @BDS. He also enjoyed the once/year colors day in his office when everyone else was PSU, Pitt or Penn and his was the lone Bama sweater. We also got several ROLL TIDES as we travelled thru different airports. Makes you feel kinda special!!
Didn't get me bumped to 1st class though

[Proxigean Tide]

Probably biggest shocker I had like this was changing planes at Narita International, Tokyo, Japan. I had a Bama hat on and as I was getting through security, the Japanese Security Agent pointed at my ball cap and with a huge grin said "ROLL TIDE, Go Alabama". I think my jaw about hit the floor.

[Isaiah 63:1]

	Quote:	Nicodemus
	I met a girl from New Zealand on top of the lighthouse in St. Augustine last year...

For a minute there I thought I was reading Penthouse Letters for the first time in 20 years...

[Nicodemus]

I have a friend from Alaska that now lives in DC and she had never been to a college football game. She came to visit in '03 and I took her to homecoming game against Southern Miss (Brandon Avalos' lone start if I remember correctly.) Anyway, she was just blown away at the size of the stadium, the cheers (especially Rammer Jammer), etc. Basically the entire gameday experience blew her away.

So, she emails me last year after her and her husband got back from their honeymoon in France. They were on a riverboat in Paris and got to talking to some other Americans. The people told her they were from Alabama. She got all excited and said "Roll Tide!" They told her they were Auburn fans and wanted to know why a DC girl would automatically say, "Roll Tide." She told them, "Well, from the way I understand the rivalry, it's amazing Auburn fans could afford the trip over."

She said they took it well and knew she was joking, but I thought that was awesome. She's been to one Bama game in her life and was talking trash to Barners on a riverboat in France.

[Nicodemus]

	Quote:	Isaiah 63:1
	For a minute there I thought I was reading Penthouse Letters for the first time in 20 years...

LOL.

My wife was with me, so that would've been a really interesting letter...

[IHateUT]

	Quote:	Nicodemus
	LOL. My wife was with me, so that would've been a really interesting letter...

Go on....

[mlh]

Back when I was in the USAF, stationed in the Pacific, I was on leave in Tokyo. I was walking down the street one day and saw a young woman coming toward me wearing a crimson sweatshirt with Alabama Crimson Tide printed on the front. She looked like she might be a college student, so I stopped her and asked if she attended Alabama. She said no, she liked it because it was "American" and asked me what it meant. We had a cup of coffee and I told her about UA. Definitely not a "Penthouse letter" but it was pretty cool and she really liked knowing what the writing on her sweatshirt meant.

[BamaFanKyle]

I was in NYC last week and saw several people with Bama gear on and even yelled Roll Tide to a couple of them...not too exciting, but it made me happy to see other Bama fans up there

[CornBiscuit]

	Quote:	BamaFanKyle
	I was in NYC last week and saw several people with Bama gear on and even yelled Roll Tide to a couple of them...not too exciting, but it made me happy to see other Bama fans up there

I remember going to that toy store in NYC when I was 5 or so and 3 kids were sliding across the piano keys tackling each other. Sure enough, they had a #12 Bama jersey. Not sure how I remember that.