Meaning of IT'S A SMALL WORLD and FANCY MEETING YOU HERE - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So sometimes you're talking to someone
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and they mention that they know someone that you also know.
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When this happens, often in English we will say,
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"Wow, it's a small world!"
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Because we are surprised that the person we are talking to
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knows someone that we also know.
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I had this happen once a long time ago
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where someone new started at work and they were talking
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about the person who their daughter had married
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and that person ended up being the son of someone
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that I knew growing up, so I said them,
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"Wow, it's a small world!"
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Sometimes you don't realize how interconnected people are.
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Sometimes the world is much smaller than we think
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and we end up finding out that people know
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the same people that we do.
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I'm sure if any of us ever met in real life
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we would soon realize that we know some of the same people
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and then we could say to each other,
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"Wow, it's a small world."
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We have another phrase that we say when we meet someone
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in a place we aren't expecting to meet them
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and we say, "Fancy meeting you here."
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Sometimes we even say, "Fancy seeing you here."
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This happened once to me when I was young.
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My family went on a trip, we went on vacation
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and we ended up meeting people
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that lived just around the corner from us.
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So even though we were over 1,000 kilometers from home
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we ended up running into, or meeting,
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people that lived just a kilometer from us at our home.
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So when we saw them we probably said this, I don't remember,
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but we probably said, "Wow, fancy meeting you here!"
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Because we did not expect to meet people who lived so close
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to us when we were in a place that was so far away.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,
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and it's a small world, it's getting smaller every day
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and I hope you are having a good day
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and have a good weekend.
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