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[YOLANDA]

Have you ever seen anyone from your hometown in Disney? I was in Chef Mickey's on Halloween,and I look up and there's a women from home. I don't know her name but our paths cross frequently and we are familiar. So we both say hi and then continue to load our plates. We look up at the same time and start laughing. I said 'for a minute I thought I was in Burger King or something'.It turns out our children were sharing the same b-day and they were also celebrating. It's funny I HAVEN'T seen her since.
My DH also saw one of his customers at FESTIVAL OF THE LION KING!!

[crystalloubear]

One time we were in MGM and I said to my DH "That lady looks just like Cindy" He says "No Duh - it is - see the rest of the family there."
We've also run into several other people we've known but that one was the most memorable.

[Luv4My4]

My DH saw a Detective he used to work with at DTD last time we were there and I saw my cousin at MGM when I was on my honeymoon and he was there for grad night.

[J603]

Last trip I was in the gift shop at the Contemporary, and I heard a guy complaining to his children that the toys they had picked were too expensive and to pick something different. I turned to look and I was staring at one of my company's clients. When he comes to the shop we still laugh about it.

[LizardCop]

One trip I ran into my boss (the sheriff), and 3 other law enforcement folks from here, as well as a couple of people I used to work with when I was in the Air Force.

On another trip, I ran into another co-worker from 20 years ago...

Last trip we met a few families from the local area, we didn't know them before but we do now...

And I always seem to be running into fire and medical personnel from the area...

Ya never know who you'll run into at WDW

[loobyoxlip]

Yep, we have a family that always flies to Disney every December (about 10 total) They flew down on our airline and got upgraded to AKL (this was 2001 when CBR was being renovated still). Kylor and I left a few days later for AKL and I saw the mom walking through the Mara and said 'hi'

[lauren-roxy]

I have never seen anyone that I know while at Disney.

[pluto_n_goofy]

I have sort of seen people from home. My dad saw people from home, but my encounter was a bit more...odd. I have recently moved back to a town I had lived in for awhile in Minnesota from Wisconsin. After about a year of not seeing anyone from Wisconsin, I was walking down the hall of All Star Music when a really good friend of mine turned around and was like...Elisa..OMG!!! Well...that was really COOL, but ODD! They were on their band trip, which I was supposed to go on, but moved, but still got to kinda go on Lol!

[Mikkimouse3]

Yep...Last year we were at Downtown Disney in the World of Disney Store. Me and this lady were looking at postcards when all of a sudden we looked at each other and I realized that is was my Pharmacist from Walgreens!! It was so funny cuz we both kinda stood there wondering what the other one was doing at WDW!!!! I had just been in to Walgreens the day before to pick up my prescription and she had said "Have a nice weekend!!!"

[Cam22]

Two summers ago we ran into the manager of our local Toy's R Us. Last year a teacher/coworker and his family were AK when we were. Then at the pool and resort I ran into 2 former students, one I hadn't seen since she graduated. In line I ran into some people from my hometown and the husband turned out to be the former roommate of our football coach. My DD always reminds us that "it is a small world after all."

[skywaywaver]

On my HS grad trip, with ex-boyfriend (notice no "darling" in there ) in 1998, we were sitting in ITTBAB, and a row in front of us was a girl I was friendly with. So odd...of all the places that we could have been in WDW, much less AK, much less that one theater, she's sitting one row in front of us.
On a slightly related topic, did you ever see one person get picked on at Adventurer's Club (or similar) and then see them later? There was one about 15 yo guy at AC and he was just feeding them material but being a great sport, and then we saw him a few days later. DH thought I was insane for remembering that.
Oh wait...I do remember something else...standing in line for Comedy Warehouse, I think I saw someone I used to converse with online. Couldn't let DH know, or it would have been really bad!

Maggie

[Tara O'Hara]

Why yes I have. I have seen several people from work on various trips. Mostly unplanned and I didn't even know they would be there!

[Pris]

A couple of times I have run into people I knew. On one trip, I ran into a former student who was still enrolled at our high school. Another time I ran into my favorite former principal from our school. He had moved a couple of years before to become superintent at a nearby district.

[BabieeMelly]

We haven't been toDisney enough for this to happen, but I love when it happens at other places! I took sign language for the first halfof the school year and my teacher was training a new ASL teacher, and I saw her at the Cher concert a few weeks ago - she was about 2 rows ahead of us, lmao! I've also run into family while we were at other family member's houses in NJ and we decided to go to Walmart - what are the odds, lol!

[millie]

Never ran into someone that I knew but I have a pretty similar and funny story.....

In Nov 2001 I went to WDW for 5 days for work as a travel agent touring all of the hotels and parks. I was alone on night in the MK and took a seat facing the castle on the curb of the hub to watch the fireworks show (forget the name but the one before Wishes) I sat there watching the castle change colors, loving being by myself, this was my second time there ever and the last time I was just a kid. It turned out that I was sitting way to close for a really good view of the fireworks, but I didn't have the passporters back then to give me all the wonderful hints that they do.
Anyway, there was a family sitting next to me on my left, with a girl aprrox. 5 right next to me then the mother and father and then a son approx. 8 yrs old. I noticed they were British (as alot of people in WDW seem to be in Nov) and being the friendly sort, I struck up a conversation with the Mom and Dad about how much fun there adorable kids seemed to be having. They told me they were from England and then mentioned the name of the county that they lived in. We talked for a few minutes more and I then went back to watching the castle change hues. About 15 minutes went by and the people on my right got up to move to another location, and another family sat down. The mother of this family sat right next to me and her son about 8 and her daughter about 10, sat next and then the father and another woman who I think was the grandmother. As she sat down she politely asked if anyone was sitting in the space. I said no and noticed that they too had British accents. I asked where they were from and they said the name of another county in England (can't remember which, but it was different from the county the first family was from) I said jokingly that this family next to me was from England also and motioned to them as I asked if since it is a small country did they know each other. She laughed as she glanced past me at the other family and started to say no, when her son who had also heard me stood up and looked over too. Well all of a sudden the first woman on my left sceamed out the little boy's name and called to HER son to look at who was here. As it turned out the two boys had gone to school together the year before, but the second family had moved at the end of that school year. The two boys and the mother to my left were the only ones who knew each other, since she had worked at the school. and they were within two to three people of each other in the twilight of a Disney evening and amid the crowds and the excitement they wouldn't have even had seen each other, if not for a wise-guy travel agent making a pretty lame joke about the size of their country. Pretty bizarre huh. LMAO.