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Well, I've met Kevin Bacon so now you're a 2.
Funny story really, I live in West LA.... I was watching my kids play in the park and saw a familiar-looking dad watching his, so I wandered up and said, "I feel like I know you but I can't remember from where, do your kids go to (local school) or (local play gym) or (local swim classes)?" And he said" ... Umm, I'm Kevin Bacon." So I said, "Oh I'm sorry, of course you are!" and let him alone to enjoy being a dad.
Haha nice! These things have a funny way of happening.
I met a colleague of Paul Erdos by walking up to a complete stranger on a train and simply asking if they were a mathematician and if they knew Paul Erdos. He turned out to have a lot of lovely anecdotes to share.
I'm not sure what possessed me to specifically do that, but I probably won't do it a second time and risk losing the 100% hit rate for colleague-of-Paul-Erdos divination.