Page 10 | What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

Tcga745 · 04/02/2017 18:35

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DS won a very prestigious competition in an arcane sport a couple of years ago.
Six months later he was in a cab talking about said sport with his Dad. The cab driver overheard and asked if he was any good at the sport.
Proud Dad said yes and that he had just won xxxx competition.
The cab driver said, "No way, I won that in 1982, do you have the cup?"
Turned out DS and Dad knew of him (he had been vv good) and knew his brother. Driver ended up coming into the house and having his photo taken with DS and the cup with their names on!
V coincidental!

TheCustomaryMethod · 04/02/2017 18:36

badhotfanny Yes - I'm always riveted by those, too. Have you ever read this one - it's a great story!

metro.co.uk/2014/07/31/newlywed-couple-discover-photo-of-themselves-together-as-children-11-years-before-they-even-met-4816779/

isaulte · 04/02/2017 18:37

I was on a small scuba diving boat in Barbados with some friends and one other couple. They heard us talking and it turned out they lived about 2 roads away from us in the UK.

ImperialBlether · 04/02/2017 18:37

@CaoNiMa Were those places Ormskirk or Wallasey? I've heard tons of similar stories about those two places!

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 04/02/2017 18:42

I have a doppelgänger. A friend of mine and took a picture of her, she looks so like me I thought she was me, though she was in a place I've never been. And her first name is the same as my middle name.

CaoNiMa · 04/02/2017 18:42

@Imperial - Ormskirk! I didn't know it was such a hive of coincidences!

Toooldtobearsed · 04/02/2017 18:45

My dad was killed when we lived in the far east. I was three when he died.

We came back to the UK and seven years later my mum remarried.

When i was getting married, she gave me her wedding ring from my dad. It is the most unusually engraved ring, hand crafted in the far east, in a tiny jewellers. My dad had bought it there twenty five years before i announced my impending marriage.

I was delighted by the ring, but it was too small. So, i took it into a jewllers in a small town in the north east of England.

I handed it over to the jeweller, simply saying that it had been my mums ring, was too small for me, and could he put a 'bit' in for me.

A very long minute passed whilst he examined it with the monacle magnifyer thing they use. Then he put everything down and said " Singapore, 1959, navy chap".

He had actually made the ring.

He resized 8t for me free of charge 😊

ferriswheel · 04/02/2017 18:49

Tooold

Your story made me cry.

Doglikeafox · 04/02/2017 18:54

I have quite a few. I flew to New York last year, got off the plane and saw one of my best friends at the airport (we are from U.K., both had no idea the other was going).
My DP grew up on the opposite side of the big city that I live in. We met each other 3 years ago and had never met before. When looking through a family photo of mine, taken from when I was about 10, you can see my DP and his mum stood in the background. The strangest part is that the photo is taken at a holiday resort in France, not in the city (or country) that we live in. We didn't even realise we had been there at the same time until this photograph.
Another one, when I met my DP we quickly noticed that on all of our various dates around the city, we saw a particular car with the number plate 'SIS POW' (but obviously spelt out with numbers). We must have seen it about 10+ times in the space of a month when we went to Blackpool for the weekend and saw the same car parked in a fun fair grounds.
Finally, I'm a childminder and was at a childminding play group the other day when I got chatting to a fellow childminder. I thought it was funny that he was a childminder so young like me (we are both 19) but said no more. Later on I was counting up the rent contributions everyone had given, and noticed that this guy had the same unusual surname as me. I broached the subject with him and it turns out he is my second cousin. We carry on talking, and realise that we both became a childminder during the same month, both got the exact same GCSE results, both went to the same sixth form college and yet had never actually met each other!

badhotfanny · 04/02/2017 18:56

Tooold nfw!!!

This is my favourite thread ever!

Custardo yy to that.

We went to an organised day festival, based around fairies/nature. We queued quite a while to meet the fairie queen.

She turned out to have been our lodger when I was a teenager, 25 years ago and 200 miles away.

BikeRunSki · 04/02/2017 19:03

Toots you made me cry in such a nice way! That is amazing, just so amazing.

BikeRunSki · 04/02/2017 19:04

I meant Tooold, not Toots.

PrettyLittleBrownEyedMe · 04/02/2017 19:06

I went for lunch at a pub when we were away on holiday in another county from where we live. It had a bookcase in the corner filled with random books there for the look of them - adding 'ambience' or something - I'm sure no one had looked at any of them for years. I picked a very fat one (3 inches at least!) out to flick through while waiting for our food and it fell open at a picture of my grandmother's house.

isseywithcats · 04/02/2017 19:11

quite a sad one i used to sell antique pottery at antiques fairs, there was a lady opposite sold all sorts and books , i never used to look at her books, bear with me, we had booked a trip to krakow in poland with a trip to auschwitz camp, this sunday which was about two weeks before we went i wandered over and picked out a book from her stall which (now a film) called suite de paris, i didnt even look at the story just looked interesting, turned out the lady who wrote it was a russian jew living in france when the germans marched in and she was shipped off to and died in auschwitz,

thenewaveragebear1983 · 04/02/2017 19:13

My dh was born on the exact day my parents met.
Our maternal grandfathers were born on the same day (as each other, not on the day my parents met!)

x2boys · 04/02/2017 19:19

i have loads but this was just odd i had gone to visit a friend who was au pairing in America she was in bed one morning the kids were at school and there parents at work so i was flicking through the channels on the tv for something to do there was a boring programme about train journeys and that week just happened to be about the train journey from Bury in greater manchester to manchester city centre [its now a tram journey but this was 20 odd yrs ago] we are both from Bury and had done this journey many times but i had to go all they way to America to watch a tv programme about it.

AgedRelative · 04/02/2017 19:23

My PILs and closest aunt and uncle have the same first names, both shortened in exactly the same unusual way. My aunt and MIL had their first children on the same day and where in the beds beside each other in hospital.

ButtonBoo · 04/02/2017 19:26

I met one of my best friends when my daughter was 3 months old - at a baby group - and our daughters are now 5.

There is 8 days difference between the girls' birthdays. And 8 days between mine and my friends. My friends birthday is 12 days after her daughters. My birthday is 12 days after my daughters. Our Mums share the same birthday. She is an only child. As am I. Our girls will be only children. Our girls have the same middle name (fairly unusual) especially as my friend is not English and its quite an English name. We have both moved away from the area we met in (London), to different towns in the south east. But we live in the same named road. My house number is 34 and she is 43. And finally, both girls started reception this year, at different schools. But they have both have a teacher with the same name.

Spooky!!!!

Bigfishlittlefishtwoeggsinabox · 04/02/2017 19:31

I actually have a few and am convinced I'm a witch

First one..when I was much younger I got in trouble with the police, I had been to court and released without charge so thought I would go and visit a friend who lived in a remote area of Ireland.
Whilst there the guards came to her house looking for someone else and found my old court papers which showed I was not allowed to leave London and was told by him that I would have to leave and go home, of course I protested so the officer said he would call his brother who worked in the met to check their system, it turned out that his brother was the one who arrested me in London.

Second one...I'd booked a holiday for myself and dcs last year to Spain and the night before we flew I had a dream about my sister who I hadn't spoken to for over a year after a falling out.
One day we were sat on the beach I had taken a selfie with the dcs and uploaded it to social media, ten minutes later my dsis tagged herself in the photo, yep she was in the background and I hadn't even noticed her.

Last one which is quite sad..I was at work thinking about exdp and his father dying and going to his funeral, I'd never met his dad and he never had a relationship him so it was quite unusual. Two hours later I received a call from exdp to say his dad had died.

AgedRelative · 04/02/2017 19:33

Rainy and TooOld. You've both made me tear up a little.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 04/02/2017 19:36

I was going on a return trip from town A to town B, over 100 miles each way. The M1 was looking heavy on the way down, so we decided to return via the M40. Stopped off at services for a quick in/ out trip to the toilet. As I passed through the exit I heard "Hey! Somewhat!". It was my uni friend going from town C to town D. He'd managed to see me in less than a 40 second window of passing through.

A few years ago, DH decided to buy a new suit for a family wedding at the weekend. We go into town, and in M&S he was assisted by a very helpful salesman.

We travelled 130 miles to the wedding. We sit down for the wedding breakfast to find that the very helpful salesman is already sat at our table! He turned out to be the groom's uncle. We were put on the same table as we're from the same town, but no one expected us to have met 3 days earlier!

When trying to make FB friends with a school mum, she was surprised that I was a mutual friend through her cousin who lives up the other end of the county. We'd been on the same team at a major scout camp and camped together for a week a few months earlier.

PussCatTheGoldfish · 04/02/2017 19:41

Significant date in my family:

10th April 1931 my grandma's mum died. Her father remarried a younger woman.
10th April 2001 his second wife died.
10th April in the 1950s, 5 years apart my grandma gave birth to her only two living children. (One was a premmie.)
Two in. Two out.

freebreeze · 04/02/2017 19:43

At my wedding. My bridesmaid's husband gets talking to an old friend of mine. They are totally unconnected and have never met before. They are from completely different parts of my life. Anyhow my friend has an unusual name and bridesmaid's husband picks up on this as it's also his mother's name. 'My mum was at nursing school' my friend is telling him. 'She named me after her best friend, also a nurse' . 'That's funny' reply's bmb, 'my mum was also a nurse!'.....Yep, you guessed it. Total stangers from completely opposite ends of the country. The only thing that brings them in to the same venue is my wedding and yet she was named after his mother, obviously because their mothers were best friends back in the day
!!

Buddahbelly · 04/02/2017 20:07

pusscatthegoldfish 😮😮😮

Was just reading these to dp and said shall I put mine, then read yours.

My dads birthday 10th April
My birthday 10th April
My fil's birthday 10 th April
Date my grandad died 10th April

Thought we were a strange family 😀

notactuallyamum1 · 04/02/2017 20:09

Just today I printed out a photo of my cousins wedding (I was a bridesmaid). I sent her a photo of the photo frame and she sent me a photo back having printed out a similar photo today and put it in a frame as well! She lives in America and I live in the U.K.!