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Something just happened and I have no explanation for it

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HahaCharadeYouAre · 09/01/2024 13:57

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?

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Dibilnik · 09/01/2024 15:51

How brilliant and bizarre!

The only explanation I can think of is if you are a magician and didn't know it, and all this time it's been hidden up your invisible sleeve, falling out just as you were arranging cushions.

The only similar story I can offer, though not nearly as exciting/inexplicable, is that years ago when moving house I sold all my furniture and moved into a rented apartment for a while. When I got there, the bed and sofa were the ones I'd just sold, so I felt right at home 😁

Whydowomendothistothemselves · 09/01/2024 15:55

I keep posting on sensational threads, where the OP never returns. It's a total mystery where they disappear to. Will they be found huddling in someone's newly fitted wardrobe in 10 years time?

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2024 15:58

I will too but only if Richard Armitage is in it
You know who you're going to get though @MeinKraft - bloody James Nesbit

SuperGinger · 09/01/2024 16:00

I had this too I had an account abroad, then moved to the UK got a new bank account with a different bank and got allocated the same pin. I don't have either account or PINs now

1CocklodgerHouse · 09/01/2024 16:00

I reckon it was on or in your old couch and the delivery people put it on the new one and it slipped between the cushions

Dillane · 09/01/2024 16:02

Tighginn · 09/01/2024 14:12

Did they remove the old couch frist?

Good question

NoTouch · 09/01/2024 16:02

Issueatwork · 09/01/2024 15:19

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?

Most likely, or even the same card.

I find my credit card in all sorts of funny places in my house when I would swear it is in my purse and can't remember how it got there!

Onirique · 09/01/2024 16:02

HappyQuinn · 09/01/2024 15:03

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)

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I think it does… it’s not the odds of getting Pin A, it’s the odds of getting Pin A AND then getting Pin A again. You multiply the individual probabilities.

1 in 100m.

HaddawayAndShite · 09/01/2024 16:04

Photo or it didn't happen.

Wytchy · 09/01/2024 16:06

I agree with the pp who said this is going to perplex you forevermore.

When you're 85 you'll still be thinking of the spooky debit card happening.

kitsuneghost · 09/01/2024 16:08

Was it a new new couch or a second hand?

Ejismyf · 09/01/2024 16:08

Not quite as weird as that but I was on my neices hen do and my bracelet broke. I put it in my jacket pocket as we got on the bus home. As we got off there was a homeless girl and I emptied all the change out my pocket and handed her it without looking. When I got home I realised what id done and searched my pockets, bag etc just incase and it was gone. About a year later when emptying the washing machine my husband came and handed me it as he'd found it in there. I obviously never gave her it but defo searched all my pockets and bag thoroughly and had cleaned the machine in between. Strange.

WhateverMate · 09/01/2024 16:10

Do you write or research for a magazine OP?

Mihijita · 09/01/2024 16:13

I lost my earring in a bar that my friend and I used to go to all the time,felt it come out and saw it ping across the floor - couldn’t find it in the packed bar. The day before my friends funeral (6 months after I lost the earring) I found the earring on my bathroom floor. No explanation for this ever.

Nightowl1234 · 09/01/2024 16:14

Handsnotwands · 09/01/2024 14:31

that's v v weird

not as weird but bank card related

DH has had the same PIN since it was auto-issued about a thousand years ago. when we got DD her first account they sent the card and PIN it was the same as DH's (different banks, unconnected accounts).

I'm no mathematician but i'd be interested in the odds of that

1 in 9,999. Not that unusual when you consider how many bank cards are issued!

Maireas · 09/01/2024 16:18

Whydowomendothistothemselves · 09/01/2024 15:55

I keep posting on sensational threads, where the OP never returns. It's a total mystery where they disappear to. Will they be found huddling in someone's newly fitted wardrobe in 10 years time?

She'll turn up on a bus in Belfast.

butterpuffed · 09/01/2024 16:18

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Totally agree ! Unbelievable 😅

Maireas · 09/01/2024 16:19

Mihijita · 09/01/2024 16:13

I lost my earring in a bar that my friend and I used to go to all the time,felt it come out and saw it ping across the floor - couldn’t find it in the packed bar. The day before my friends funeral (6 months after I lost the earring) I found the earring on my bathroom floor. No explanation for this ever.

It was a different earring, which just looked the same?

BliainNua · 09/01/2024 16:22

You just gave me shivers 😱

thisisnotmyname1 · 09/01/2024 16:23

While out shopping, I picked up & handed in a bank card which was just lying there. The shop took my details & later that day the owner called to say thank you. He turned out to be my next door neighbour's son, & he commented that my phone number was only one digit different to his. Mildly weird.

LesserSpottedFlamingo · 09/01/2024 16:24

OP I believe you.a few months ago I would have been far more sceptical but after what happened to my on Christmas day, I now know some things defy all logic. I started a thread on it and some people doubted me as to be expected, but it really did happen! It definitely messes with your head though

GuinnessBird · 09/01/2024 16:26

Bollocks.

Anyone who believes this is a gullible fool.

12menandtrue · 09/01/2024 16:26

I do think the Universe sometimes returns lost items. (Puts on tin hat in preparation for the flack)😄

HappyQuinn · 09/01/2024 16:27

Onirique · 09/01/2024 16:02

I think it does… it’s not the odds of getting Pin A, it’s the odds of getting Pin A AND then getting Pin A again. You multiply the individual probabilities.

1 in 100m.

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Oh yes, I think you're right - I knew there was something niggling me from my GCSE maths about multiplying but I thought it was when the events were dependent on each other, but you're quite right.