What is the strangest coincidence you’ve had?

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Mine was I met someone on holiday in place A and had conversations several times during the week.

Fast forward 6 months and I got talking to someone on another holiday in place b and thought I know them but wasn’t sure where from, but not from that holiday or home but it turns out it was from holiday A.

My dad has a female cousin, who we don’t see very often as both families lived far apart for years. Everyone in our family does the same job as everyone in her family. Both parents and both kids. I ended up working at two different companies as my second cousin, after having only met her a handful of times in the past. My brother has also been on courses with our other second cousin.

Met a nice young man at university interviews. Kept in touch. A number of years later he turned up at a party I was at as was dating a girl on the same graduate training scheme as me. A further number of years later he turned up at a work event, was dating a woman I worked with.
I also met the middle work colleague completely randomly on a hot on Lake Titicaca (we both lived in the UK). That was freaky!!!

My sisters flat in London was coincidentally under the flat of the godmother of the little girl I was Nanny too.
Ds2 is profoundly deaf. We didn't find out until he was two... The first man my husband worked for many years before was profoundly deaf and he had the same name as ds2!!

Went on holiday abroad in my 20s and met a lovely family with a teenage daughter.

Fast forward quite a number of years and I was responsible for grant funding within a public service. We provided a grant to an organisation and the person in charge wrote to thank me. Some months later I was introduced to them and it was the teenager who had grown up to lead a local organisation.

Second example - my partner and I were invited to dinner by a work colleague. She had a business partner and it turned out that my partner and her had been to the same university. They discussed where they lived beginning with area, street and then house number. It turned out they had lived in the same house a few years apart.

After my mum was widowed she was looking to move from London to Devon (in around 2005). She came very close to buying one house, but eventually went for a different one. I've been doing my family tree and recently the census for 1921 was published. I looked up the records for my dad's parents, both from London. Knew they'd lived in various other places but not in Devon. But in 1921 they were living in the house Mum had nearly bought.

This was quite a few years ago... I was leading an AA meeting and became aware of a man who I hadn't seen in the rooms before smiling at me. Didn't think anything of it. When the meeting finished he came up to me and said Do you remember, Mr X's geography class, 1980s...? The penny dropped. He and I had actually started primary school together on the same day in 1978, went through primary together and had several classes together at secondary. We were always friendly but never stayed in touch so we'd not seen each other in over 20 years. This was before Facebook. All this was in London, 300 miles from where we'd been brought up. And this was his first AA meeting after a month in rehab, newly sober, back in town and he landed randomly at my meeting. It completely took my breath away.

Just remembered another one... Walking along the beach in Kent with ds2 and met a couple. We were talking about me living in Suffolk. They used to live in Suffolk and asked me if they a certain person.... The person is the son in law of my late partner and a very dear friend to me.

When I signed up with a new bank, several years after setting up with the first bank, I received a debit card with the exact same PIN as the first. What are the chances of getting two debit cards with the exact same PIN?

Had an internal exam at a sexual health clinic as I had been having pelvic pain. Dr and nurse were lovely, commented on my healthy mucus, spoke about my new job starting the next day. Fast forward to the next day, where I was starting my new job in a GP, in a town 30 mins away. I walk in and it turns out the nurse, whom 24 hours previous was staring deep into my vagina asking me about my wealth of sexual partners, also worked there on Tuesdays. Hello new work colleague

That’s so beautiful 😍

That’s so beautiful 😍

That exact thing happened to me in Devon!!

I worked abroad as a holiday rep 12 years ago. DP holidayed in the same resort at the same time I worked there. We didn’t know each other.

Last year, we were looking through photos from his holiday 12 years ago and there was a photo of him and I, taken on one of the bar crawls. We couldn’t believe it (or remember it!!)

I advertised in a niche magazine for a very specialised book that was out of print. A woman got in touch and said she had a spare and sent it to me. Several years later I met someone on a conference and we were sure we had met before, got on very well etc. Turned out she had sent my book!

We were moving to a town in another county. Dfil had an aunt who lived there, but lost touch. Dh remembered her visiting with her kids when he was young. Dfil couldn’t find her. We bought our house from a couple whose Dd I became good friends with.Then years later he was talking about aunt and family. She had a distinctive name. We realised that she was my friends mil and her husband is dhs cousin. And aunt now lived in the same sheltered flats as my mum.

When travelling in the USA in the 90s, I met someone on the plane on the way over. I then met her again a few months later - at a different airport in the USA. Not too much of a coincidence as we were on a similar get back to Uni schedule.

2 years later, travelling in Thailand. Met the same person at the Thai border.

I walked into a remote rural pub in the Welsh-speaking part of Wales. The landlord was from the next street to me in our English home town 250 miles away.

Shortly after I met my now DH in London, we discovered that my godfather had taught him at primary school in the north west! It was such a lovely discovery as my godfather was a lovely, eccentric man who had some very distinct mannerisms and my husband showed me how he used to fiddle with his glasses, brought back so many fond memories as he sadly committed suicide when I was around 20. Makes me sad they never got to meet as he would have found it hilarious.

Not sure this counts as a proper coincidence - but it struck me as an odd little thing. I realised the other day that the date of each of my parents deaths are 11 years apart, both in November - the 11th month, and the dates 11 days apart.
dad died 22/11/2011 mum died 11/11/2022. It's a little symmetry that seems rather fitting as they were married for so long.

Mine is really undramatic and annoyingly no-one witnessed it! As a teenager I was lying on my bed reading, got a bit bored, turned on the radio and the same book was being serialised and they were on the same page as me. I mean - what are the odds ??

Possibly outing. DH and I were together for about three months before we realised our Dad's were the same age and went to the same school.
Turns out they'd been best friends but hadn't stayed in touch after school. We'd met multiple times as babies when they'd bumped in to each other.

That's crazy!

In my family we have a coincidental significant date. Let's say it is 4 April, but all relating to my grandma in some way.

Her mother died on 4 April 1926 when she was a tiny child. Her son was born on 4 April 1949. Her daughter was born on 4 April 1952. Her step mother died on 4 April 2001 (outliving my grandma by about 5 years as it happened).

I think of it as the universe playing a long game of 2 out, 2 in.

First nanny job I got the kid had the exact same autoimmune disease as me.

I hope that means that both you and your husband have fantastic in-laws!