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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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Maireas · 09/01/2024 17:27

Interesting, @BeckyAMumsnet
I think I'll have a look at the tabloids and see if some journalist has written an article about spooky events with these exemplars....

CustardySergeant · 09/01/2024 17:27

BeckyAMumsnet · 09/01/2024 17:24

Hi everyone - just to make you aware that the OP has since left the site and so those hanging on for an update will sadly be disappointed. Of course, there's always the possibility that OP has been swallowed whole by their glitch-in-the-matrix couch, and will pop out, six years later, in a random DFS.

Oh! How odd. 😕

Maireas · 09/01/2024 17:28

Their first and last post!

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BeckyAMumsnet · 09/01/2024 17:28

Maireas · 09/01/2024 17:27

Interesting, @BeckyAMumsnet
I think I'll have a look at the tabloids and see if some journalist has written an article about spooky events with these exemplars....

Do report back if you find any, @Maireas!

allquiettonight · 09/01/2024 17:29

Love the spooky coincidence. My Dad had a weird one. Turned up to a family funeral to see a distant cousin getting out of his old car. He'd sold it 10 years' earlier and it turns out his cousin had bought it and had never clocked my Dad had been the owner. They lived over 100 miles apart.

YouJustDoYou · 09/01/2024 17:29

I love how people make stuff up just to try and shoehorn in some kind of totally improbable explanation when it's not explainable and completely true.

bookworm14 · 09/01/2024 17:29

BeckyAMumsnet · 09/01/2024 17:24

Hi everyone - just to make you aware that the OP has since left the site and so those hanging on for an update will sadly be disappointed. Of course, there's always the possibility that OP has been swallowed whole by their glitch-in-the-matrix couch, and will pop out, six years later, in a random DFS.

Called it.

Whydowomendothistothemselves · 09/01/2024 17:32

You'll be sorry, @bookworm14 , when OP appears in your bathroom one morning in 5 years time, clutching a photo of you both together when you are old ladies.

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2024 17:45

BeckyAMumsnet · 09/01/2024 17:24

Hi everyone - just to make you aware that the OP has since left the site and so those hanging on for an update will sadly be disappointed. Of course, there's always the possibility that OP has been swallowed whole by their glitch-in-the-matrix couch, and will pop out, six years later, in a random DFS.

🤣

Divinespark · 09/01/2024 17:49

Iwasafool · 09/01/2024 15:15

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.

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I'm just interested in which bank is offering 200 and is the offer still available? Thanks

JaneJeffer · 09/01/2024 17:52

Snazzysausage · 09/01/2024 16:33

It must be bank cards that are susceptible to disappearing/reappearing. Around 20 years ago our joint account debit cards arrived ready to be activated before the old ones expired. I opened them and placed them propped up just inside our bureau to remind us to activate. DH arrives home from work and I go to hand him his card but they've gone. We searched high and low, methodically checking everywhere even though they were only in the bureau. I admitted defeat and cancelled them a few days later,new ones arrived,all good. About 3 years later I went to put some paperwork in the bureau and there in front of me were the 2 missing debit cards,plain as day. Not concealed but just where I propped them years before. 😱 A few years after that I picked up a urine specimen bottle(exciting stuff) from my dad's doctors on my way home from work and the plan was to cook the tea then visit dad,taking him the bottle. I'd put it in the bureau ready to grab on my way out. It was gone,never to return. That bureau is now in the garage holding various tools etc but we never put anything we'll need in the near future in it, in fact we still say something like "don't put it in the haunted bureau,I'll want it later in the week". Just in case.

That bureau would be so handy when you're decluttering (until all your junk reappears in the future).

Stackarack · 09/01/2024 17:52

Divinespark · 09/01/2024 17:49

I'm just interested in which bank is offering 200 and is the offer still available? Thanks

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There are a few that do it. Nationwide often do. HSBC and NatWest do too if you go to the Martin Lewis website he will tell you who is offering what. Sometimes it’s just £175.

leftoverss · 09/01/2024 17:56

You slipped your debit card into a pocket in Belfast rather than your purse.

And then because you assumed your debit card was lost with your purse, you never checked your pockets.

You wore that clothing again today and the card has slipped into the couch.

There is always a mundane explanation.

Divinespark · 09/01/2024 17:56

Stackarack · 09/01/2024 17:52

There are a few that do it. Nationwide often do. HSBC and NatWest do too if you go to the Martin Lewis website he will tell you who is offering what. Sometimes it’s just £175.

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Thanks !

Noneofourbusiness · 09/01/2024 18:01

Bloody hell Ken 😉

HellsToilet · 09/01/2024 18:05

Maybe it fell off a shelf and onto the couch when they carried it in. I once lost a card while on holiday and found it months later inside a book I read AFTER I lost the card so it clearly hadn't always been in there. It just ended up in there after I read it. It happens. Flat things easily slide into, under and over other things.

lovelysoap · 09/01/2024 18:06

that is incredible OP

HellsToilet · 09/01/2024 18:07

leftoverss · 09/01/2024 17:56

You slipped your debit card into a pocket in Belfast rather than your purse.

And then because you assumed your debit card was lost with your purse, you never checked your pockets.

You wore that clothing again today and the card has slipped into the couch.

There is always a mundane explanation.

Or into your coat pocket that is hanging in the hallway, past which the large sofa almost definitely brushed.

MMUmum · 09/01/2024 18:07

Couldn't find my car keys on Saturday, they weren't in the tin where I keep them, used the spare key and went out, when we got back DH found the lost key in the tin, I know for sure it wan't there before😱

CET27 · 09/01/2024 18:09

That’s very weird! I loaned my mum a pair of stud earrings and she lost one, she bought me a replacement pair and held onto the single earring (small diamond stud). Months later the lost earring turned up in my jewellery box…now completing the pair. Neither of us could explain it?!

ThreeRingCircus · 09/01/2024 18:10

Noneofourbusiness · 09/01/2024 18:01

Bloody hell Ken 😉

Since MN has now confirmed OP has legged it off the site. I think we can safely say her story was a load of old cobblers. Much like some on Uncanny 😂

blackrabbitwhiterabbit · 09/01/2024 18:11

WHAAAAT? 😳

Howdidtheydothat · 09/01/2024 18:15

So here’s mine, travelling in Asia with my now DH. In a beach bar, talking to two Austrians ladies, one of whom had recently divorced her English husband and returned home. Happened he came from my childhood town . I realised through description and a discussion of English surnames that his dad was headmaster of my primary school. She was clearly freaked and thought I was a scammer or had spiked their drinks or something else when I named her ex FIL’s address and other details (I happened to deliver newspapers to his house as a teen). Shame as it was a fun evening and brilliant coincidence but they scarpered shortly after in fear of their lives 🤣🤣🤣

Noneofourbusiness · 09/01/2024 18:20

@ThreeRingCircus yeah some of them are a bit 🤔 doesn't stop me sleeping with the light on though 🤣

theconfidenceofwho · 09/01/2024 18:21

Love it @BeckyAMumsnet

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