Weird coincidence - tell me yours

[RedPlumJammy]

The weirdest thing happened to me today. I was waiting at an international airport terminal for a family member and getting coffee when I thought I spotted a famous sports player next to me. I spent a few mins trying to surreptitiously look sideways and eventually he got up and I realised it wasn’t him.

I then went to the arrivals gate to wait for family member. About 15 mins later - I kid you not - the actual real life famous sports person exited the arrivals gate and walked past me. It was 100% not the same man from earlier.

Am I insane - or is that an insane coincidence?! I’m sure you'll all think I’m crackers but I’m always looking for a meaning or sign from the universe too 🤣

While in hospital after having DD1 I got chatting to the woman in the opposite bed, her DD was born on the same day as DD1 (not the coincidence!) But the mum had the same DOB as me and we'd all been born in the same hospital

While in Australia 18 years ago my family and I got in a bus to do a vineyard tour, the guy running the tour did the usual "who are you, where you from" there was another family in the bus, we'd never met them, but they not only had come from the same city as us, but they also lived on the same road as us... weird.

Another weird coincidence

Dh went to college with one of my cousins.
One of his cousins is best friends with another of mine.
His uncle used to work with my dad, and my mum and his aunt became quite friendly (parents of his above mentioned cousin)
His ex is now married to my ex's older brother.
We met on a night out 15 years ago, but our lives have had many potential crossovers since we were about 12....

A friend told me yesterday she had had a weird dream where she got locked out of her house the night before. Today she has messaged she's waiting for a locksmith because she's locked out - she has the key, but the lock is jammed.

Randomly dreamt that Amy Winehouse passed away, I liked a few of her songs but wasn't a huge fan or anything. Then 2 weeks later she actually did.
The same happened with the Apprentice contestant Stuart Baggs 'The Brand'. Again dreamt that he died and then sadly he did.

Not woo but..

Yesterday. I treated myself to an AC/DC day, Bon Scott singing in the morning seeing as it was so wet and miserable outside.
i saved the best for the afternoon and found a huge concert in Donnington on YouTube, cranked up the volume just as my eldest son came in. I remarked to him the energy Angus Young must have felt from the crowd just as he began ‘Thunderstruck’. At that precise moment, the biggest clap of thunder exploded outside.
Complete shock and extra awe for Mr Young.

This isn't a coincidence but is something like it. Though I can't for the life of me figure out what.

I ordered a parcel with two valentines cards in for dp because I wasn't sure which one to choose.

After picking up the parcel, I opened it and took both cards out, looked and them and put them back in the box. Later, when I came to write one, I noticed that there was now only one card in the box . I thought I must have dropped it but it never turned up.

Then, a few days later I received a message from JL to say thank you for your return, we are processing your refund now. It was for this card that went missing! I know for sure that I picked the thing up and looked at it(!)

Does this count - only a little one 😀
Had quite a few Tesco points to use so we exchanged them for Pizza Express vouchers, the amount was exactly £104.
Enjoyed our meal and when the bill when it arrived, was you've guessed it - £104 ! We didn't look at any of the prices on the menu, just ordered what we wanted.

My Mum & her sister were on holiday from Glasgow a few years ago. They went a day trip to York one of the days.

A couple came & sat at a table with them when they were having lunch. They got talking & the couple recognised their accents. As they chatted, it turned out the man was a retired cop who'd walked the beat in the 1960s with my Dad!!

Yesterday I was sat waiting whilst my car was being serviced. I was flipping through a magazine, turned the page and there was a feature on Shania Twain, literally as I turned the page the “man I feel like a woman” music video came on the tv. I had to laugh.

The best/ strangest one was- When I went abroad to one of the Canary Islands a good few years back, I was on the balcony of the apartment, next minute I heard Fuddy Mucker1 is that you, I looked up and it was my sisters best friend in the apartment above, she had recognised my voice when I was chatting.

Back in the 1980s,I was waiting for the bus home from work,when one of the warehouse lads drove past and offered me a lift home. I thanked him,but said that I lived in a tiny hamlet about 7 miles away,and it was a kind offer,but way out of his way.
He insisted it was fine,so I hopped in,and told him which place to head to. He was quite surprised and said that his great aunt lived there,on a farm,but he couldn't remember her name or the farm name,but could remember what it looked like.As where I lived was basically 2 streets,I told him to stop at the farm he remembered. He stopped outside our farm,where my nan lived. It turned out that he was some sort of second cousin of mine.
I also bought a cup of tea,in Sedona,Arizona,from a man who used to live opposite my street in a small town in the UK.
I ended up on a bus in LA,with a teacher from my secondary school in the same small town as above.

Remember as a kid finding a budgie on our doorstep, my mum bought a cage and it became our beloved family pet.

As a young adult, I met my now ex-husband and his mum was telling me a story about how as a kid his budgie bit him, he grabbed it and let it out the door and off it flew never to return.

It was the same colour as the one we found on our doorstep and the timeline fit, we will never know if it was the same budgie but you don't find many budgies flying around. His mum told his sister, who was heartbroken at the time, see told you it would find a good home 😆

Driving home one afternoon I suddenly thought about one of my university tutors. It was 4 o’clock because the news came on as I was thinking about him. When I got home later on, I checked my emails and at 4pm an email had been sent to say he had passed away suddenly. Hadn’t thought of him for ages so I it wasn’t that I thought of him often at all.

DP grew up in Nottinghamshire - had relatives in wales in the town where my DC go to school.

Uncle died - turned out his grand daughter was in school with my DS and DPs cousin was actually DS teacher

I started a new job as cabin crew.
My dad had died the year before and always wanted me to be cabin crew.
His office also overlooked the airlines training facilities

On my very first flight as a newbie I got chatting to a couple on board....
It turned out to be my dad's best man and his wife

To me it was my dad looking down on me and wishing me all the luck in my new job!

I was looking after a patient in south wales. Turns out my grandad had introduced him to his wife in Yorkshire in the 60's when they were all in the RAF

Back in the late 80s a friend of mine from the UK got a job as a nanny in Ohio -we used to write to each other. She became friendly with another nanny working there who was from Ireland. She was visiting the Irish nanny and being shown photos of friends and family and various people she had met on her travels. One of the pics was an ex boyfriend of mine (she had met him through a friend of a friend when in the UK) I was quite surprised to see his photo fall out of a letter sent to me from Ohio.

My cousin who is now 50 was adopted by my aunt and uncle. 10 years ago he looked for his birth family. He found them. Two of the children within his wider birth family were children that were in my English class at a comprehensive school in London. I grew up in the North East, went to work in London, taught in a central London school with several hundred kids in. My cousin had grown up in Kent. We couldn’t believe it.

When I met my partner of 10 years the first two letters on my car's registration number was the first two letters of his name, the next two letters after the year number were the initials of his middle name and surname. My bank card PIN which I've had for nearly 40 years is the year of his birth.

A family day out on a paddle steamer. I was 5. There was another little girl sitting near us, wearing the same dress as me. Her mum got talking to mine - she had the same name and birthday as me.

National Insurance numbers are completely randomly assigned. Mine and my brothers are exactly the same apart from the last letter.

Me too. I've posted about this before. It happens, maybe, a couple of times a year and as soon as I realise the person I thought was someone I knew is a stranger, I sort of know that I'm going to see the 'real' person within a couple of days. It's so weird - like a premonition.

Ages ago I left my job in London that I really liked to move abroad with my DH. They replace me and when I moved back to London 18 months later I phoned my old boss to see if I could have my job back but they didn't need me. I went to work somewhere else but the commute was a bit of a pain and the job was quite boring, DH moved abroad again and the job didn't want me to go part time (so that I have long weekends to visit DH) so I decided to leave. I agree to stay until they had recruited my replacement provided I could be part time for that. They employed someone new, told me her start date and asked me to stay for a week to train her. Same day my old boss phoned me to see if I wanted my job back because my replacement had just quit. Yes, she and I were swapping jobs.

I've posted this one before, but we were in tanzania and our mini bus got a puncture. Luckily we were on the outskirts of a village so I went off with DH to try and find a cold drink whilst our tour person changed the wheel.

There was a lady selling artefacts on the roadside - african carvings and rugs and stuff - all pretty large and not stuff you could pop in a suitcase. I was browsing and admiring stuff, and she explained that they could post to the UK if i wanted to buy something. I didn't really (was killing time) but I didn't want to be rude so I smiled and said 'Oh that's great'. She insisted I look at something and I realisd she was showing me a couple of items bubble wrapped and boxed up, to demonstrate how they posted overseas. I looked at the label on the first box and it was addressed to a house three doors up from me.

Me and DH just kept starting at it - we were in the middle of NOWHERE

I've told this one a few times!

40 years ago as a young teenager I had a book called 'Come Back Lucy.' One of my favourites. Wrote my name and address in it with my metallic gold pen as I did to all my books.

Obviously lost it as time went on and never gave it another thought.

A few years ago, now aged 50, I had a fit of nostalgia and went on Amazon to see if I could buy it. It was out of print but there were a few second hand copies on the marketplace so I bought one from a seller in Scotland. I'm in the south east of England

Book arrives a few days later and I open it to see my name and address, in gold pen, just as I'd written it over 40 years previously ...

I dreamed that Whitney Houston died in a bath and there was cocaine all over the bathroom floor. I was horrified when the next day it was on the news that she had been found dead in the bath.