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You to tell us about your coincidence stories. Even though I have none too add myself
I've always be totally amazed by coincidence stories

My mum went to Ascot for ladies day in her lovely new outfit that she had bought for my daughters wedding.

It was so striking. So pretty. Big pinky, purpley fuschia flowers . It was a top over a skirt.( your gran probably has one lurking at the back of her wardrobe)

My mum counted 12 people wearing the same outfit lol

I am sure I do have some but for the life of me can't remember any right now...I'll return after a cup of tea.

My old car parked next to my sister's old car, about 4 years after both had been sold to random people.
My mum, myself and my daughter all having birthdays linked to royal weddings. Really wish I'd put a bet on about Ds arriving that day. I would have made a fortune!

When I was younger we went on holiday to Orlando. Halfway during the flight my dad saw someone from his work (another department) walk down the plane to the toilet!

Over the 14 days we were there we bumped into this guy and his family about 5 times in various theme parks and once in a shop in a huge mall.

The odds of that still baffle me!

DH and I have the same birthdays as Barack and Michelle Obama...

DD2 and nephew both born same day, same no of minutes past the hour on same day as our grandmother

When Kate Middleton announced she was pregnant with George and was due in July I thought 'I bet it will be my birthday' it was.

I was walking through a car park and thought how awful it would be if one of the cars we were walking past reversed into my son. One very nearly did.

The receptionist at my work got married. In happened to mention her relatively unusual married name to my grandfather. he said, I think that could be C 's daughter in law. I told her this story. The next day, she brought in a photo of her husband and me as children.

The first born female in 4 generations in my family (down the same genetic line, my great aunt, my aunt, my sister and my daughter) we're all born within the same week (Oct 21, 23, 24 & 27).

My sister was nearly 4 weeks overdue according to dates 40+ years ago, and my DD was more than 6 weeks early.

*were

Stupid autocorrect

I've bumped into people from school (many moons ago) on crowded tube trains on more than one occasion. Just fifty yards further down and we would never have seen each other

It's a small world

A good friend of mine went on an activity week at one of these kids holiday camp things with her school (circa 1994) aged 14. In one of the old photos from the end of week disco is a good friend - also aged 14 in 1994, there at the activity week with her school. They didn't know each other at the time, went to different schools and wouldn't become friends and colleagues again until years later.

Hmmm, let's see

Riding a cable car, and seeing one on the opposite side passing us...and the school caretaker waving madly at us. (But schools have many members of staff, most people have some association with a school...bumping into somebody vaguely associated with school must happen to a fair few people out of all the millions of us...)

On holiday in Europe when I was a teenager, and we bumped into another lad from my maths class. Only 4 of us in that particular class...(Still the same comment as above, but a better one...)

Popping into work, late one night, to check up on something, looking round for the staff, decide to try the treatment room "Oh, good, we were about to call you" about a patient who had only just arrived. Actually, done that quite a few times...but then, people don't remember the times you turn up and they weren't about to call you...something about selection bias on memory?

How about...when I was really young.....my brother asked my mother "What would we do if nocool died?" Okay, obviously I didn't. But I was in resus a couple of hours later....or does that belong in a spooky thread?!

I went to a concert at Wembley Arena and was sitting in the 3 seats away from someone I was at school with. Caught a plane to Barbados & was in the same row as 2 girls I went to school with.

Come from the deepest west country. Was visiting London for few days with pals. Bump into another west country pal I'd lost contact with who turns out to be living in Manchester, who was in London overnight at 3am in trafalgar square in London.

We've not seen eachother since, this was 20 years ago...

Pal was at top of kilamanjaro, bumped into kindergarten friend from 30 years previously, from a small place in florida. Nor seen him before or since, both still live in small town - less than 5000 souls in florida, and their parents do!

Amazing!

I was out for a walk with my dh one day many years ago and we were watching a duck and her duckling swimming around on a lake. I commented on how cute it was and dh said something about a giant pike taking the duckling out. I thought what a weird thing to say and with that, there was a splash in the water and the duckling disappeared below the surface. Poor mother duck was swimming around quacking looking really confused.
Dh has absolutely no idea why he said such a thing and he had never said anything like it before or since. He did feel really bad about it.

This is a great thread, I love these types of stories.
Avocado: yours are amazing, it's the oddest thing to bump into people from home when you are miles away but the top of kilamanjaro !
Similar to nocool : I was on a school trip in Germany and my friend and I were on a ski lift and chatting and waving to people who are going in the opposite direction. We met a couple from the next village. Which we found odd.
Nocool: your last one is really spooky!

Many moons ago I did the old backpacking round the whole thing. I spent 3 hours queuing at customs chatting to other backpacker.

A couple of months later I bump into him again at a rugby match in Brisbane that I decided to go to last minute.

Few months later still, ran into him at LAX.

Went to a large shopping centre with my sister. We split up for a couple of hours and when we met up again we'd both bought the same top from the same shop. And it was from a huge multi-level store and the top wasn't displayed, it was just on a rack. This was the only item either of us had bought that day!

My parents where born 10 days apart in the same hospital, their birth certificates are signed by the same people, both my Nans were in hospital with them at the same time, growing up they got the same number bus to school but in the opposite directions to each other so their buses passed en route,

When they finally met as adults, my Mum had been working in the same building for the same employer as my Dad's mum, my dad's step sister's husbands best friend was my mums best friend and next door neighbour growing up....

I think those are spooky!

My grandmother got chatting to the lady sat next to her on a flight to Germany, turns out she lived in my grandmothers old house!!

Went for a weekend away to London with bf & bumped into a friend of ours who we haven't seen for years. He looked really weirded out to have seen us, turns out he now works in London & was only outside his office cos the fire alarm went off and had a dream the night before where he'd bumped into bf. Ooohhhh!

Years ago I was flying home from a trip, and left my book behind in the seat pocket. I was only halfway through and really enjoying it, so I was pretty annoyed.
A few weeks later, I was in a second hand book store when I spotted that book and decided to buy it so I could finish it - pulled it off the shelf and my boarding pass was still in it as a bookmark!

I went away to Germany with school when I was in year 10. We made friends with some girls from Surrey staying in the hotel opposite. Fast forward many years to my first day at university and guess who is sharing my flat/ hall of residence? One of the girls from the trip. We have photos of us together as kids.