Comments on: It Really IS a Small World

By: Valentine Chick

Valentine Chick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:27 +0000

Yep I just found it! You beat me to it Andrew!! Thank you for your help. Please check it out JacquiO. We would love to add another chick name to our nest!! LOL

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:18 +0000

JacquiO and Valentine – There is a Garden (our beading community) group for Chickies: http://www.limabeads.com/fresh/groups/chickies

In it, you’ll find Lynn’s “Official List”. It does exist!

By: Valentine Chick

Valentine Chick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:29 +0000

Mrs. Chick you gave me chills with your story!

And JacquiO…a while back someone,don’t remember who now, came up with the idea we could call each other chick or chicky as a friendly gesture. It stuck and we all decided on chick names for ourselves, or had help from others and that is what we call ourselves today, still! Anyone can be a Chick in the Chick nest. It is a very positive group of beaders and LB fresh pickers who like to chat, laugh, share, empathize, encourage, counsel,and help each other with life’s daily trials and tribulations. It is a wonderful group to be a part of! Would you like to be a chick too? Think of your interests or something special about you, and decide on a chick name. I’m sure Lynn Chicky LE has a list of all the real names and chick names so we don’t double up or get confused. Just let us know!!! Welcome Oh yea, we love LIMA BEADS too!

By: JacquiO

JacquiO — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:16:49 +0000

Hi, just wonderin’…how come there are so many Screen Names with CHICK in them?!

By: Elaine aka Belly Chick

Elaine aka Belly Chick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:15:12 +0000

Wow…great stories!!! I have only had the pleasure of having very, very small coincidences.

By: Luv2bead - Little Chick

Luv2bead - Little Chick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:47:20 +0000

That’s great Mrs Chick!!!

By: M mccallister mrs chick

M mccallister mrs chick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:55 +0000

Straight out of high school I decided to join the navy so I could travel. I was based in San Diego and served onboard ship. I made several friends that I became close to. After being onboard for almost a year and a half I became ill many times over and over with kidney stones and it was decided that I would recieve a medical discharge. The decision was made rather quickly and I happened to leave while one of my best friends was at training on the east coast. When I arrived home I tried for several months to reach her with no success. I later found out that she was in an accident and never returned back to the ship. Many years later I was working for AT&T and was assigned to the Military calling card office. During one of the upsets overseas my company would allow service men over seas to call our service dept and we could transfer them for free to a loved ones number with no charge. One morning I got a call from a young man very upset telling me he heard we could let him speak with his mother. We were required to get the person’s name we were connecting them to. That day I connected that young man to my friend i had lost contact with almost 19 years earlier. It is a moment i will never forget.

By: J Yee smart chick

J Yee smart chick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:42:44 +0000

Andrew, what a cool story about the British customer that was your fav, and your grandparents met her when they traveled to London 10 years later.

My own “milder” version is how I came to meet up again with a classmate from elementary school in Honolulu. A friend of mine, Patricia got her masters degree from Antioch University in Seattle where I’m now going to grad school. On one of my visits to her when Pat was on campus she said that one of the Antioch staff said she saw me and recognized me because she had gone to the same elementary school. Sure enough, when I saw Lynn, we laughed about the coincidence: she had moved to Colorado before she came to Hawaii, and I had moved to California and northwest Florida before we met again in Seattle WA!

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:15 +0000

Lizbeads – I thought you were going to say you were the woman in my story. That would have been cool!

One more quickie – My father lived in Indonesia for 2 years as a teenager while my grandfather worked for an American oil company in one of the tiny, remote villages in the middle of the Sumatran jungle. My father’s best friend was an Australian boy named Peter. He still talks about him almost 50 years later.

When I was 15, my family took a trip to Indonesia to visit the tiny village. It hadn’t changed much. The oil company is still there and gave us a driver to take us to an even SMALLER town to see some real jungle. There was another visitor in the car with us…from Australia. Get this! He was Peter’s co-worker back in Australia!

That was too weird…meeting a friend of a friend in the middle of the jungle in a village of no more than 100 people.

By: lizbeads

lizbeads — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:22:46 +0000

On my first trip to England I visited Stratford on Avon. I walked into a pub to have a drink and noticed a patron wearing a Pittsbugh Penquins jacket. As a Pittsburgh resident at the time. I naturally had to speak to him. He was a local gent who just happened to like the Pens!
:ater on that same tirp I walked into the restauratn at my hotel and there a sign indicated the American beer special that month was Rolling Rock. I grew up not 10 miles from Latrobe PA where it was brewed and we drank that in college! I had not come all those miles to see that so I walked out!