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What are the biggest coincidences that have happened in your life.

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Lardychops · 12/05/2025 18:27

So five years after being on a kibbutz in Israel I was a passenger in a car with a friend in Hendon. The car came to a sudden stop at a zebra crossing. A startled girl flicked a V sign before we both realised we knew each other from the kibbutz!!

That SAME day on my way home to Harlow I got in the train and quite literally sat down next to a lad that had been on the same Kibbutz!!! He and the girl were not connected in any way - It felt barmy at the time and I imagine the odds were millions to one!!!

DH sister married a man she met in France and at her wedding it turned out he and ones DH’s old university friends had been Penpals while at secondary school- I mean what are the chances??

Anyone else had any bizarre coincidences like this - or more so ??

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:46

CoralOP · 14/05/2025 08:58

OK this one is pretty grim...
I had an awful dream one night that a distance relative was burning and chasing me trying to stab me, she looked like she had turned into a witch or something, it was very scary.
My sister rang me that morning so say she died in the night 😬

I’ve heard that happen before…. 🥺

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:47

Yorkshiremum80 · 14/05/2025 09:04

I was in New York many years ago with my now ex and was explaining to him about the Magnolia Bakery being in the Sex and the City series and Carrie had had these lovely looking cupcakes from there, as we stood outside. He then said oh you mean her and pointed to Sarah Jessica Parker who was waking past with Matthew Broderick!

Lucky Lucky you !!!
I love SATC xxxxx

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:49

NeverGoingToMove · 14/05/2025 09:05

Couple of incidences of bumping into people I know in foreign countries /airports but here's mine:

As a student in my last year at uni, I applied for an internship at the Dutch oceanographic institute and got it. For various reasons, I turned it down to take a job in the UK.

Through a friend online, a year or so later, I met my Dutch DH.

His family own the business next to the Dutch oceanographic institute and he worked there the years I would have been next door.
I feel like we were fated to be together which ever path I had chosen to take. 9 years married and we're still so happy together.

As you say - FATE !!
You guys clearly meant to be xxx

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:51

DelboytrottersDnecklace · 14/05/2025 09:09

Back in 2022,we lost my darling fil who had been a builder
My in-laws live down south,I'm from up north but live in the Midlands with dp
I'd taken time off work to go to the funeral and was on my second day back and feeling very fragile
I work in retail and was out on the dining area when a couple walked in
They couldn't work out how to do their order so I gave them a hand
Got talking to them and they not only knew my fil as a friend,he'd fitted their windows,they'd been to my sils funeral and knew darling mil and dp well
I couldn't believe it-we live almost 200 miles away-what where the odds of them living near my in-laws,knowing them,then moving down the road to where dp and i live and then walking into my workplace,getting chatting to me and not one of my colleagues?

My parents once went away on holiday
They got chatting to another couple-the couple had my parents first names,their surname was one letter different to theirs,their children where the same names,ages and sex as us siblings and had the same birthdays
Both woman eat meat like its going out of fashion but both men where vegetarian and eco warriors
Both women drove the same style and colour car and both men rode the same type and colour of motorbike
My parents live in a street that is named after the village a few miles away-the other couple live in that village and had the same house number
Their phone numbers where one digit different
I was pregnant with my first baby and so was their dd
We both had girls-say mine was called Sophie louisa,hers was called Sophia Louise
Both born on the same day,same birth weight,both had a shock of black hair,born within a minute of each other,both had the same first outfit and (unusual) pram and as they grew up,both went to schools with two letters different-different schools and areas (same colour uniform and the teacher had the same surname)
My mother was so impressed,she's stayed in touch and meets up regularly with them (many more coincidences,like both babies growing up and studying the same subjects and getting the same grades and the boys all working in the same trades as their namesakes,and marrying woman with the same names)
My father was that freaked out,he refused to speak of them!

i love a coincidence lol but I kinda get here you’re dad was coming from-sooo freaky !!! Xxxxx

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:52

Sunnyside4 · 14/05/2025 09:13

I hadn't seen my Nan for a few years due to my Mum falling out with her (Nan and I kept in touch occasionally with letters though). I went on holiday with a friend when I was 17, we looked into a greasy spoon cafe and decided it wasn't for us. My Nan and her friend were in the cafe (on holiday) - her friend hadn't seen me since I was a baby, but had seen the odd photo I'd sent Nan came after me in the street on the off chance it was me. My Mum couldn't say much, so after that I went up and stayed with Nan a couple of weekends a year.

That’s so lovely xxxx

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:57

chergar · 14/05/2025 13:13

my aunt moved to a different part of the U.K. when she married, some years ago she went on holiday to somewhere in Europe (Spain or turkey or something) at a bar one night the got chatting with another British couple who happened to be from aunt’s (and our) hometown - the couple mentioned that they had a friend who was having a hellish time with her neighbours, the neighbours son was wild and a tearaway and gave the friend a life of hell and causing bother - turns out we were neighbours and the tearaway was my 4 year old brother, who was not wild or a tearaway just a typical 4 year old boy who liked to play with a ball in the garden

Cheeky buggers!! X

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Lardychops · 14/05/2025 22:59

madmeg1952 · 14/05/2025 21:45

Not quite the same but 5 years ago (during the dreaded Covid outbreak) we were on a world cruise. Covid hit us at Sydney and we had to change our route. We learnt that we were going to Freemantle, which is near to Perth, and I remembered that my cousin had emigrated there 50 years earlier, age 23. I managed to get his address from his brother (who lived near me) and we arranged to meet in Perth. He told me where he would be and said he'd be driving a yellow saloon. DH and I went to the area (a square park area with four roads in and out) and every other car was a yellow saloon! Suddenly I spotted another one at the far corner of the square and immediately shouted to DH "That's him". "How do you know?" asked DH and I said "Cos he looks just like his dad!". Now when I last saw my cousin he was 23 and looked exactly like Dave Davies of the Kinks (shoulder-length brown hair) - but by 2020 he was 73 and mostly bald!

That’s so funny ! X

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