Something just happened and I have no explanation for it

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Six years ago I was in Belfast (I live in the North of England) and I lost my debit card, I cancelled the card and got a new one. I know for a fact I lost it there because it was in my purse (It was my only card and the one I had been using on my trip to Belfast) and I left my bag on a bus and never got it back.

Today I had a new couch and chair delivered, When the delivery guys left I took the seat cushions off the couch (It’s the kind you can move the cushions and swap them around etc) and there was a debit card there, Picked it up and its the exact one I lost in Belfast six years ago.

Never even sat on this couch yet so it’s not like it fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t have the same clothes I had six years ago, Since losing the card I have decorated my entire flat, All the rooms were empty with no furniture etc as I got it all done room by room, The couch arrived today and the debit card was in the couch.

I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I'm stumped!

Anything strange like this happened to someone else? Did you ever figure it out?

That will now quietly drive you insane for the rest of your life as you try to come up with an explanation!

That's quite some coincidence, where did the furniture come from?

Is the sofa brand new from the manufacturer?

Timelines have overlapped RESET TIMELINE

10,000 combinations but surely the odds of 2 the same in one house are much higher than that?

Thank you so much. I’ve always wondered and I could have googled I guess but there you go

DD has a weird streak, odd things do happen to her so I’ll make sure she keeps her wallet close if she ever goes to Belfast

So freaky

I swatted an earring off the bench top accidently into a bin bag after emptying the litter tray.. Lost forever..
Though it was in my jewellery box weeks later...
We also have a 'shared 'charm- a silver shoe.. Unexplainably travels from dd's home to ours now and again. No idea where it originally came from.

I had a diamond bracelet that I paid £1.2k and rather than keep it boxed away I decided to wear it everyday…until I lost it. I was gutted. Retraced my steps, went to the shops, post office etc etc. fast forward 5 years and my washing machine was making an odd noise so my son said to open the waste pipe at the front. I look at him like he was stupid because the noise wasn’t coming from there but I did it anyway to settle his curiosity…the bracelet popped out on opening - I could t believe it! I have never worn it since ha ha!

Less than 1/10,000 They don't allow 1234

Is this a gullibility test?

If this sofa is genuinely new and not a second hand purchase or a demonstration model, it was probably manufactured within the last two years if it is an off the shelf item and if it was bespoke normal lead in time is 6 - 10 weeks, so there is no way this sofa would have existed when you lost the card 6 years ago.

Sorry but I don't believe it.

What is the date on the card? how do you know its the one you lost and not a replacement one that you still kept/had in the house/hadn't disposed of? Could have fallen out of a pocket if you leant over even if you hadn't sat on it. That's the only possible explanation but more likely explanation is that you are testing the gullibility of us!

I heard a coincidence recounted on a podcast recently, but even that possibly pales into ‘meh’ compared to this.

A man is in a petrol station paying for his fuel when the petrol station phone rings. The woman on the till picks it up and says ‘No, sorry. There’s nobody called Dave Harris on this number.’

Before she puts the phone down, the man paying for fuel jokily says to the till lady ‘I’m called Dave Harris! Who is it?’

The woman on the other end of the phone hears and says ‘Tell him it’s Katie, his secretary!’

So the till lady, confused, hands Dave the phone, and it is indeed his secretary calling.

Dave: ‘How did you know I was here?’ Katie: ‘I just rang your home phone number from your personnel file!’
Dave: ‘But this isn’t my home phone number!’
Katie: ‘Oh! I’ve got confused. I’ve seen your employee number and rung that!’

Katie rang Dave’s employee number, which turned out not only to be a working phone number, but the exact random place that Dave was at that precise moment.

So the question now is… Does Katie now work for DFS?

I don't think it changes the odds - because each number has a 1/10,000 chance of being picked - so the person doing the picking doesn't impact it iyswim. (So if I picked a number 10 out of a bag with 50 numbers in it, there's a 1 in 50 chance of getting 10. If I then go to another bag with 50 numbers and also picked out a number 10, the odds are still 1 in 50 of me getting 10, because me previously getting a 10 doesn't impact the odds of what number I get from the second bag)

Definitely seems most likely.

This is so intriguing!
I love this incredible true story about Sir Anthony Hopkins:

http://www.shadyoldlady.com/location/487

DH and I have the same PIN code - different banks, different accounts. Mine was issued 2 years after his. I posted on here about the odds, and lots of people who are better at statistics than I am explained that it wasn't that unusual.

I still thought it was a spooky coincidence

Are you testing this for reaction for your new Netflix script??
I promise to watch!

After that story in the papers yesterday about a mouse regularly tidying a man's shed, it's clear weird things can and do happen! It must have somehow got stuck in your clothes and come back to your flat - unless there is indeed a glitch in the matrix.

That has sort of happened to me last month. I opened a new bank account to get the £200 they were offering. On my old account my 4 digit pin was my husband's old collar number (he was a police officer but retired 30 years ago) so I was surprised when I got the pin for my new account and it was the same.

It must be a long shot mustn't it. I wonder how many combinations there are for a 4 digit number.

Just googled it and it says 10,000 different combinations.

All I could think of with that mouse story was The Tailor of Gloucester.

Just to help me guage the level of freakyness can you say whether the sofa and chair are new to you or new-new?

You lost a different debit card down your old couch that you’ve forgotten about, new sofa men found it on your old couch when moving it popped it down on your new couch to give back to you and then forgot themselves so threw the new cushion on top?

Weird shit happens. I would love to know the journey your card had been on, it certainly can't have been among your clothes for 6 years!

Also throwing in that the couch came from belfast originally & your cards just been bouncing around

(unrelatedly, my bank card also showed up in a fully enclosed couch despite knowing 100% I didn't lose it there & there's absolutely no way I wouldn't have found it during my search almost a year earlier & I'm still fuming about it having had to order a new one & the bank fucking it up)

This is absolutely the most reasonable explanation.