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[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

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 grandparents and their son all share the same birthday.

Not me but a neighbour. Him and his brother had, I think a falling out and didn't speak for a while. He lived in England had a successful business, started a family (two sons) while his brother moved to Thailand. Anyway his two sons grew up and the older one got accepted to study physics at Oxford.

He didn't have any contact with his brother during this time but eventually his brother returned to the UK and a few years later got in contact. Turned out while in Thailand he'd met and married a woman and adopted her teenage daughter. They'd moved back to the UK when the girl was about 16. In a very short space of time this girl had managed to learn English and take her A-levels. At the point his brother got in contact my neighbour found out that she'd also just been accepted to Oxford to study physics and was going to be in the same collage (only 6 kids per year study physics at each college) as his son.

Years ago we're in a nightclub and a friend who had too much to drink went out to the car for a kip. End of our night we pile out to the car, I check the back seat for friend, crikey someone's stolen Dave!! Get out of car, look around and there is our car (same colour, model etc, keys worked for both cars) parked next door, with Dave sleeping happily in back seat. Yeah, there was quite a bit (okay, a lot) of alcohol involved but was funny at the time, I mean who would want to steal Dave?!?

I have a photo of DH when he was 12. I met him aged 33. The photo I took of a train going past in Wales whilst I was on a 'outward bound' week with my youth group. I was trying to get a picture and this lad in the brake van waved at me. It was only when we laughingly realised we'd both spent a few summers in Snowdonia I thought to check my photos.
I also have a friend who I met a few years ago, but chatting we've realised we were at 2 gigs at the same time before we met.

The day after i got married, we were in York and walked down the Shambles and crossed to go into a pub. Coming out of the pub was a guy i had been to college with. A few days later, in Miami airport, waiting for our luggage, a girl i had been at school with was at the next carousel. On our honeymoon, we stayed with his cousins in Canada, and they knew a family i had been at school with.

I was introduced to a friend of my friend who seemed familiar. It turned out her aunt had belonged the the same church as me, and I had played for the aunt's funeral.

I recently went to collect an order from a garage that my husband had placed. I quoted his full name on reception so that they could find his order. Seconds later their phone rang. The confused cashier passed the phone to me and said 'erm, I think it's your husband...'.

It wasn't, but someone with the exact same name (granted his first name is not THAT unusual). We had an awkward moment of '... You don't sound like my husband' 'erm, no... I'm not married...'

Oh another..... Was on holiday with DP in Tunisia last year. Noticed that another couple had an accent from the general area where my DP is from. We always try and guess the exact place where accents originate, (weird obsession, I know) so I asked DP precisely where he thought there accent was, then chatted to the couple at the bar to gather the information...... Turns out DP was nearly right (guessed the next suburb over to the one they were from), however after chatting to them further, realised they used to live in the same street at DP grew up in, DP used to play in the street with their daughter when kids and went to the same primary school! Lost contact when they moved to another area.......

Also once met a friend of BIL on a bus in Cuba. Reason why we got talking? Both DP and the friend were trying to guess which part of the city their accents were from.......and if they had any friends in common.

Got chatting to a couple of just-retired doctors on a boat trip in China and discovered we'd both worked in the same small town in Bucks back in the 60's and though we hadn't had dealings with each other then, we knew lots of people in common. In the UK we lived hundreds of miles apart.

My nan was German and met an English man during the war and moved to Liverpool.
She worked in a factory at one point and made a good friend but lost touch.

My dp Nan once mentioned the same factory a few years back and it turned out that not only had they worked there at the same time, they were the friends who had lost touch!

We took them both out for a meal and catch up more than sixty years after last seeing each other.

Sadly my nan passed away a few years back but I still find it fascinating that this happened.

Also, me and my two brothers, and my ds were all born at the exact same time, on different dates and different years.

I dreamt the lotto numbers some years ago and wrote them down, I've managed to win lots of 3/4 numbers, waiting for the jackpot now:)

Friend of my dad's with unusual first and surnames.

Checked into a hotel in Boston (USA).

Oh, says the receptionist, Mr Unusual Lesscommon you're already checked in...wait...oh there is someone else here of the same name.

The next day, in a bar several miles away, he got talking briefly to a fellow Brit who he then met again the following day in the lobby of the hotel. (still with me?) Of course it was the same name man.

Where are you from? Says same name man.
[small town in Kent], you wouldn't know it, it's just south of London, says dad's friend.

Mr Same Name only lived there too (though originally from oop north) and they bumped into each other periodically when both back home. Dad's friend was in Boston on business, other man was there visiting family and friends. Not so much of a coincidence, but same name man was from near Boston, Lancashire.

Re Littlecaf's post about accents; my Mum had been a nurse before she married. At one time, one of the patients on her ward prided himself on being able to pinpoint people's accents. Mum had a RP accent, but he said to her that she had some Welsh in her accent. She said no, she had no Welsh relatives nor had she ever been to Wales - absolutely no connection with Wales whatsoever. He was crestfallen, but was convinced he was right. It wasn't until months later that she remembered that when she was a little girl, she had had a Welsh nanny (as in child carer, not granny); the man had long been discharged, so she never got the chance to tell him he was right!

our old house had an alarm - the code 6756 - when we split up I purchased a new house and a new Sky account - the code they gave me for sky 6756

spooky!

Mil at a party one night got chatting to a random stranger who was telling her about his house, how it had a really unusual name and how he was investigating its origins, thought it may have been Austrian, had been speaking to people in local area, checking out previous papers to see when it had been named etc
Mil is able to say actually it was make in 1963 and is an amalgamation of a previous owners surname and family name, she was able to tell him this as it was her dads house and her grandfather who had named it!

10 years ago, While sat on a beach in Australia eating freshly made homemade bread, older lady sat next to me said, yum that smells god, reminds me of my childhood. I said me too, my dad's a baker, she said her best friends brother was a baker and she loved going to her house for tea and had a huge crush on the brother, the brother was my dad! This lady is staying with my Aunt for the next two weeks for easter!

My PIN number for my debit and credit cards are the same, different banks and generated by the banks!

Went to see my childhood house that we left 36 years ago while I was in the area, 60 miles from where I live now, went to the pub up the road for lunch after, got talking to the only other couple in the pub, turns out they were the people who bought the house from my parents! They remember my brothers and I and me saying that I didn't want to move and would just live with the new people! I don't remember saying that (8 years old) but spoke to mum on the phone and she confirmed that I did.

I'm a twin and when we were younger, and needed an operation the other would stay with my nan. When ever the general anaesthetic was given, the nan twin would announce feeling sleepy and go off to bed at the exact same time.

About 5 years ago I needed an operation, and twin and I were joking she should be careful at 0900 as that was the time I was due in theatre. She rang later saying it was weird but she felt really sleepy and had to pull over when driving at 1105. My op had been pushed back to that time!

I have 40 or so Facebook friends who I play games with and I don't actually know. They are from all over the world. One of them was on the same cruise ship as me to the Bahamas out of miami last November.
Spooky