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Coincidental things that have happened

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BuxbyFree · 22/10/2019 00:21

Couldnt think of a thread name but basically

Me and DP are in bed, he is asleep. A post came up on facebook so i tagged him in it. And fast asleep next to me he raised his arm and did a thumbs up! Its made me laugh cause he would of liked my comment ( when hes awake ) which is a thumbs up

Funny little coincidence that isnt it

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BadTimesAtTheElRoyale · 22/10/2019 00:25

I had an agreement with a friend regarding drop off and pick up from school. It was her week for drop off and on my tea break I had an overwhelming feeling I had forgotten to give my dd her lunchbox so I called her only for her to tell me I had given it and she had forgotten to take it with her in the car. I can never explain why that happened.

Bunnyhop1502 · 22/10/2019 08:58

I bought a book at an airport on the way to Spain. I read it on the plane and really enjoyed it, made a mental note to order the next book in the series when I got home. Got to the apartment and it was already there sitting on the coffee table!

Mirroredbox · 22/10/2019 10:54

Watched a investigative programme, the killer had xx friend’s name, their number plate was xx friend’s postcode, their crime happened at xx friend’s house name etc. My jaw was on the floor!

GoingComando · 22/10/2019 10:57

I have an aunty Lynn on both sides of my family.

Both live at number 35 Yew Tree Lane

Both are married to men called Alan

Both have a grand-daughter aged 5. One of the grand-daughters is called Iris, one is called Lilly.

Weird.

**Names/addresses changed obviously

IToldYouIWasFreaky · 22/10/2019 11:00

Me and exP were driving to what turned out to be our last holiday. I was in the passenger seat and could hear something rattling on the wing mirror. I wound the window down and found a really pretty delicate silver bracelet. It had no damage to it, not even the catch. No idea how it could have got on to the wing mirror. I had no way of finding out who it belonged to so I kept it and wore it every day for about 9 months until I just lost it one day, which was the day exP left me.
Just weird how it appeared in my life and then vanished...like a jewellery equivalent of The Littlest Hobo!

AlanThePig · 22/10/2019 11:04

My cousin died suddenly in the days before mobile phones. My parents at the time were at a holiday park and the only method I had of communication was the camp phone box. Fortunately I had that number from when they had called me, so I rang it, hoping to get someone to go knock on caravan 25 for me.

Mum answered.

SellmeyourMLMcrap · 22/10/2019 11:11

wore it every day for about 9 months until I just lost it one day, which was the day exP left me.

Jeez @IToldYouIWasFreaky , hate to break this to you but that's no coincidence, he took it back to his bit on the side.

Rainbowknickers · 22/10/2019 11:32

My parents went on holiday one year
They met another couple with not only the same first name as themselves but a shortened version of our surname and they where the same age
They also had 4 kids-one girl and 3 boys-my parents have 1 girl (me) and 3 boys (but my younger brothers are twins-they didn’t have twins)
Their kids had the same names as us and where about the same ages as us
My parents live in a street that’s named after a village about 20 miles away-this couple lived in that village-and had the same house number!
My dad was so spooked he wanted to come home early!

olderandwisernot · 22/10/2019 11:38

My husband was researching his family tree - he comes form Surrey/London area and all the ancestors he found seemed to be from that area. Then he found a record that his great great great grandfather lived in Devon (where I am from and where we live now) So we went to the graveyard, found the old records, and bugger me! He lived in the SAME house in the 1800's as I did when I was a teenager! EXACTLY! It was the weirdest feeling ever.......Shock

IToldYouIWasFreaky · 22/10/2019 11:38

Haha, Sellme he definitely didn't! I threw him out so fast he barely had time to pack an overnight bag, let alone go through my jewellery box!

foxatthewindow · 22/10/2019 11:38

I was talking to a friend about a house they had lost out on, and they were talking about a particular style of fireplace that had been there (as an original feature), and how lovely it had been. About an hour after said friend had left, DH was doing some DIY and removed an old storage heater. We had thought the backboard behind it might have been original but it was covering a fireplace identical in style. A quite unusual style. Weird.

spiderlight · 22/10/2019 11:43

I grew up in a house that had been in my mum's family since her great-grandfather built it in the early 1800s and heard stories about the area being gradually developed from farmland and the history of the various houses. I moved around a couple of times as a student and ended up in an oldish house in a different city. One day I suddenly had an urge to find out a bit more about the history of the street I was living in and got talking to a man on a forum. It turned out that he had grown up on the street I was living in and now lived on the main road that my parents' house was slightly offset from, but that in between, he had lived on both the same streets (in a totally different city) that I'd lived on as a student, so we'd lived in exactly the same four streets in reverse order.

BelfastSmile · 22/10/2019 12:09

I think I've mentioned this on here before, but I like telling it, so here it is again...

In a hospital waiting room a few years ago, got chatting to the elderly lady next to me. It turned out she had grown up in the house next door to the one I'm currently living in. My house is where my mum grew up (she inherited it and then I bought it from her), so this lady remembered my mum as a child (she would have been a teenager when Mum was a toddler, roughly).

We laughed at the coincidence, and kept chatting. I happened to mention that I'd grown up in a small village 20 miles away. Turned out she'd been evacuated there during the war, and had helped out a new mum with childcare... further discussion ensued and we discovered the new mum was my granny and the baby was my dad!

So this lady had known both of my parents when they were young, completely independently, and was now sitting next to me in a hospital waiting room.

To further add to the weirdness, I bumped into her again on the bus a fortnight later (though obviously she could have been on the same bus as me many times before, but I didn't know her then)!

BelfastSmile · 22/10/2019 12:10

Forgot, when I saw her on the bus, I was with both of my parents (it's very rare for me to be on a bus with either of them, never mind both!), so they all had a little chat!

thisisasoloflight · 22/10/2019 13:05

DH had a driving experience as a present. He had a choice of two locations, both of equal distance away but felt one would be more picturesque.

Around that time, I had just started looking at my family tree and unbeknown to him there was a vague link to the area he chose. While DH was doing the driving, I went off to take a look around and came across a village which was noted on one of the census' I'd brought with me. After rocking up to an old farmhouse with a copy of the census, and speaking to the very kind owner, it transpires that my great great grandfather would have been a labourer on the exact piece of land where my DH was driving.

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