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HahaCharadeYouAre · 2024-01-09T13:57:57+00:00

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?

RainbowZebraWarrior · 09/01/2024 21:44

Never ceases to amaze me how many people never RTFT.

Thefaceofboe · 09/01/2024 21:51

Another bank card one but I’ve always used the last 4 digits of my grandads landline number for any passwords on my phone or whatever, and even changed one of my PIN numbers to this number (he died 15 years ago now)

I got a new credit card last year and the pin they sent was 6489 the same as his phone number. It made a shiver go down my shine and I had to check that I didn’t forget and chose the pin myself, I didn’t

Firefly2009 · 09/01/2024 22:08

Twelve years ago I was in Scotland (I live in the north of Norway) and I lost my keys. The keyring had my name on it as it had been a gift. I got the locks changed and new keys. I know for a fact I lost them there because they were in my pocket (it was my only set of keys and the ones I had on me during my trip to Scotland).
Today I had a new bed frame and mattress delivered. The delivery guys assembled it for me and when they left I went to make the bed, and there was a set of keys there. I picked them up and they were the exact set of keys with keyring that I lost in Scotland twelve years ago, with keyring; they didn’t fit the new locks that I have.
I’d never been near this bed before so it’s not like I had the keys on me and they fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t even own the same clothes I had twelve years ago. Since losing my keys I had redecorated my entire house, had a clear out so it had been empty. The brand new bed, manufactured in Norway, was delivered only today and the keys were inbetween the bed and the mattress.
I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I’m confused. Especially as afterwards, when I bent down to search the bed, fairies flew out of my butt and tried to escape through the pockets I don’t have. So, it just made me think that anything is possible. Especially when there are journos around and MNHQ are bored.

OriginalFloorboards · 09/01/2024 22:08

How brilliantly bonkers and freaky is this?!

I love things like this. Although glad it’s happened to you OP and not me as I can’t deal with spooky stuff happening to me per se, but like to hear about it.

Pallisers · 09/01/2024 22:12

bearfood · 09/01/2024 19:04

I have one of these stories! Went on holiday in the UK so took blankets in case it got chilly at night in the caravan. One of the blankets is beloved by all of us. Kids fight over 'the cream blanket'. Get home from holiday and cream blanket is nowhere to be seen. We all bemoan the fact that is was left in the caravan then move on with life.
Months later I get fed up with blankets lying around the living room as it's now winter and everyone likes to use blankets on the sofas. The disappearance of the cream blanket continues to be lamented by us all, like a long missed old friend. In the January sales I bought a laundry basket type thing to store them in and shive in the cupboard when not being used. Summer rolls around again and the blankets all get packed away in it.
Autumn rolls around and I get the blankets out of the box one chilly September afternoon and what do I find? The cream blanket, the same cream blanket that wasn't there when I bought the laundry basket, not when I packed blankets away or got them out regularly.
We are all still baffled.

One of your children "stole" the cream blanket so only they could use it and hid it in their bag and then their room. Finally guilt overcame them and they replaced it in the basket.

NancyDrooo · 09/01/2024 22:14

My friend and I have the same phone number except the last two digits are switched. Bought from different shops in different towns a few months apart.

My friend ordered a copy of her favourite childhood book on eBay, 35 years after she’d last seen it and from a seller 300 miles away. It was her exact book!

Popcorn42 · 09/01/2024 22:15

I remember this...but it wasn't a petrol station it was a phone box! Weird

Popcorn42 · 09/01/2024 22:16

Starclock · 09/01/2024 15:03

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 remember this but it wasn't a petrol station it was a phone box he was walking past!

coldcallerbaiter · 09/01/2024 22:17

I think you had the card on you or in the house, it has somehow shaken loose in to gap in cushion. It is v v weird though.

coldcallerbaiter · 09/01/2024 22:19

StoorieHoose · 09/01/2024 15:29

the sofa delivery man aren't going find an old card down a sofa then put it back down the new sofa!! they would put it on the side or hand it over

It’s almost certainly this! They found it and placed it in the new sofa.

Mostlyoblivious · 09/01/2024 22:30

That’s still a pretty big coincidence happening to turn up just as the sofa was being delivered - I initially thought stalker but I’ve clearly not managed to forget saltburn yet..!

Katbum · 09/01/2024 22:34

This cannot be real.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 09/01/2024 22:35

Firefly2009 · 09/01/2024 22:08

Twelve years ago I was in Scotland (I live in the north of Norway) and I lost my keys. The keyring had my name on it as it had been a gift. I got the locks changed and new keys. I know for a fact I lost them there because they were in my pocket (it was my only set of keys and the ones I had on me during my trip to Scotland).
Today I had a new bed frame and mattress delivered. The delivery guys assembled it for me and when they left I went to make the bed, and there was a set of keys there. I picked them up and they were the exact set of keys with keyring that I lost in Scotland twelve years ago, with keyring; they didn’t fit the new locks that I have.
I’d never been near this bed before so it’s not like I had the keys on me and they fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t even own the same clothes I had twelve years ago. Since losing my keys I had redecorated my entire house, had a clear out so it had been empty. The brand new bed, manufactured in Norway, was delivered only today and the keys were inbetween the bed and the mattress.
I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I’m confused. Especially as afterwards, when I bent down to search the bed, fairies flew out of my butt and tried to escape through the pockets I don’t have. So, it just made me think that anything is possible. Especially when there are journos around and MNHQ are bored.

🤣

contrary13 · 09/01/2024 22:37

I lost a keyring over the side of Boulogne Castle when I was 10-ish, which my (paternal) grandmother had just bought me. It was a very specific keyring with a 13 in an upside down horseshoe, with seven nails, four of which were crossed, and my Gran bought it because my birthdate corresponds to the Templar imagery of the keyring. I'd had it for maybe an hour when I dropped it. Definitely dropped it, I watched it's descent, my mother shouted, I cried, it was the only one in the gift shop.

Years later, my mother is having a sort out in her house in England and decides to show my then small daughter a ring that my (maternal) great-grandmother had given her - opens up her jewellery box, which she was in and out of all the time... finds the keyring with a broken clasp lying on top of the rings my great-grandmother had left her. I've carried it with me ever since. Weirdly, someone pointed out to me that my birthdate is the 13th, my daughter's is the 7th (seven nails) and my son's is the 4th (four of the nails are crossed).

Fuck knows what happened to it. It's been over 20 years since it turned up (I'm 48, so it was missing for a long time) and my mother still calls it "that cursed keyring..." - and I don't think I'd seen her so pale until then, and my Dad used to routinely do stupid, daredevil, life-risking, war zone sort of shite, so I've seen my mother freaked out. But not as much as she was when she found that keyring in her jewellery box where it hadn't been the day before! Also - what the fuck happened to the clasp, because it wasn't broken when it went cascading down the side of the Castle walls...

It's like the game got reset and had a glitch...

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SirQuintusAureliusMaximus · 09/01/2024 15:03

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!

Easily proved with a photo eh @HahaCharadeYouAre

TheSilentSister · 09/01/2024 23:10

I was always losing things, mainly my hearing aids (very important) and bank cards. I honestly thought I was going out of my mind. Then I split with my DH and I didn't lose stuff anymore. It took a while to realise but when I did, by God was I angry! I think he used to hide things and then find them so I'd be the grateful one, he'd be the hero. Sick.

fatphalange · 09/01/2024 23:25

Firefly2009 · 09/01/2024 22:08

Twelve years ago I was in Scotland (I live in the north of Norway) and I lost my keys. The keyring had my name on it as it had been a gift. I got the locks changed and new keys. I know for a fact I lost them there because they were in my pocket (it was my only set of keys and the ones I had on me during my trip to Scotland).
Today I had a new bed frame and mattress delivered. The delivery guys assembled it for me and when they left I went to make the bed, and there was a set of keys there. I picked them up and they were the exact set of keys with keyring that I lost in Scotland twelve years ago, with keyring; they didn’t fit the new locks that I have.
I’d never been near this bed before so it’s not like I had the keys on me and they fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t even own the same clothes I had twelve years ago. Since losing my keys I had redecorated my entire house, had a clear out so it had been empty. The brand new bed, manufactured in Norway, was delivered only today and the keys were inbetween the bed and the mattress.
I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I’m confused. Especially as afterwards, when I bent down to search the bed, fairies flew out of my butt and tried to escape through the pockets I don’t have. So, it just made me think that anything is possible. Especially when there are journos around and MNHQ are bored.

Pmsl

pinkstripeycat · 10/01/2024 00:01

Today I had a new PIN number and new telephone banking passcode arrive in 2 separate letters.

One code was my Nans birthday day, month and year and one was my mums birthday day, month and year

Tighginn · 10/01/2024 01:14

Dillane · 09/01/2024 16:02

Good question

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The people that removed my old couch, left a little pile of forgotten treasures on my bookcase, without saying anything to me.

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ChanelNo19EDT · 10/01/2024 13:22

Wow, if there's a feature in a few days in the daily mail about inexplicable occurrences, I will feel stoopid

RedMinnie · 10/01/2024 14:17

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.

🤣🤣🤣

Underthesea65 · 10/01/2024 16:30

Well I can confirm that OP was not in the sofa I got delivered today

Sennelier1 · 10/01/2024 17:44

You must be a time-traveller!