Page 2 | What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

firsttimemum15 · 03/02/2017 23:38

Floopyloopy thats not coincidence thats theft. 🙈

Kayakinggirl · 03/02/2017 23:38

The only job interview I have ever turned down in my life was where my DH used to work and DSD will be going to school next year. I turned that interview down spent the next 3 years doing jobs in different countries. Moved back to Uk got a job with a multi academy who placed me in this area. I was clearly meant to live here. Always think if I had not turned down that interview me and DH would have met years earlier.

MrsMoastyToasty · 03/02/2017 23:39

When NVQS were first launched in decided to do one in customer service. An assessor came in to my workplace once a month to see me. 15 years later and I've moved jobs twice and am working in another city.

At my new workplace we have an apprentice. Her trainer comes in to see her and it's the same woman. A few minutes later another colleague walks into the office and the trainer is her neighbour!

AuntJane · 03/02/2017 23:40

A few years back, my god-daughter got married, and about three weeks later my cousin's son also got married, a couple of hundred miles apart.

I "liked" photos of both weddings on Facebook. My god-daughter made a comment about me accidentally "liking" a photo from the "wrong wedding". It turned out that her best man's fiancée was the sister of the "other" bride.

30daysonly · 03/02/2017 23:40

At a wedding. The brides father 'Christopher' had died years earlier. No mention of him during the wedding prep. Brides step father 'John' walked her down the aisle. At the beginning of the ceremony the vicar asked for the father of the bride 'Christopher' to step forward.

The vicar had no idea that John was not her father, and had no explanation for calling him Christopher.

3perfectweemen · 03/02/2017 23:41

My cousin found his birth mother.. who only lived twenty minutes from him in england. His mum and birth mum are irish and lived twenty minutes in rieland from eachother then too.

Foggymist · 03/02/2017 23:43

In Vegas, on holiday from where I lived in Canada, I'm originally from a small town in Ireland. Met my ex school friend that my first love back home slept with, thus ending our 3 year relationship. Not who you expect to bump into while dancing happily in Coyote Ugly.

GinIsIn · 03/02/2017 23:43

DH & I didn't meet until we were nearly 30. Both of us went traveling when we were 21, and half way around the world, were randomly in the same place at the same time. He's in the background of my holiday photos! Took nearly 9 more years for us to meet properly.

muhajaba · 03/02/2017 23:44

This happened to my friend, not me but I think it's so wierd..her husband cheated on her, not long after she booked herself on a random course she fancied, in a different city, hundreds of miles away.. the OW was teaching the course. Fed up with the whole situation my friend booked a last minute holiday, while on holiday in a random resort on the other side of the world she got friendly with a waiter who showed her the facebook profile of his British girlfriend...it was the OW.

Cobee · 03/02/2017 23:44

My DM married someone with the same first name as my brother. I later married someone with the same first name as my brother and stepdad (luckily DH doesn't go by his first name!) and DH's dad also has the same first name.

I have the same first name as MIL and took my DH's surname on marriage so now have the exact same name including spelling.
My DM and MIL have the same birthday.

My DM died before I had kids. My DS was born 3 weeks before due date on my DM's birthday (and MIL's bday of course!).
My cousins DM died before he had kids. His DS was born on his late DM's birthday also.

WombOfOnesOwn · 03/02/2017 23:45

Started speaking to a new man on an online dating website, chatting merrily, having really a splendid time. Within a week, we were suddenly speaking more often than not, even though he was 500 miles away.

We even said the "L" word. Really soon. Crazy soon.

And then, about two days after the L-word bomb, we were talking about our teen years, and I mentioned to him a short story I had worked on when I was 16, even told him the first line of the story. We were video chatting.

His face went white like a sheet. He started to swear. Then he accused me of being some sort of fake hoax setup by his friends. Then ... he sent me the next few paragraphs of the story.

We'd known each other, also online, way back as 16 year olds. I'd sent him the story back then, when it was fresh, and he'd somehow managed to keep it all those years. It was the single oldest file on his hard drive.

...Reader, I married him. What else could I possibly do?

Pallisers · 03/02/2017 23:47

I was in China for work. One night I dreamed about a college friend of mine. We were very close until I moved away - part of the same tight friendship group in university and then close afterwards just the two of us. I hadn't spoken to her for a while and was probably feeling a tiny bit guilty about that - maybe hence the dream.

she was a great musician and there was one song - an obscure enough Irish song - not Danny Boy or similar - that was a bit of a party piece for her at our sing songs.

The next day, after the dream, I got into a taxi in Beijing with my colleague. Chinese language radio was on. The announcer says in chinese .... yada yada yada "obscure Irish song" and an irish version of the song came on the radio. Spooked me a bit.

MegBusset · 03/02/2017 23:47

Bumped into DH's sister on a bus in Florida. Neither had any idea the other was going on holiday there!

WorraLiberty · 03/02/2017 23:50

Do you have a strangest coincidence to add at all OP?

TheCustomaryMethod · 03/02/2017 23:52

A few years ago, I had a big crush on a temp in my office - not one I'd have done anything about because I was married, so I never attempted to speak to him or find out anything about him. I didn't know his name, and I used to write humorously about him in my journal, using a code (let's say) "HRL" for He's Really Lovely.

Eventually, I had the good fortune to be at the printer when he was printing off a document ... it had his name on and they turned out to be his actual initials!

He eventually moved on, having only ever spoken to me once to say "Uh, cheers," when I held the door for him .

MadisonAvenue · 03/02/2017 23:53

In LA a few years ago, we were sitting having a drink in a cafe when my husband called out to someone - it was some old friends.

Another was when we were visiting family in the US and just after leaving for the airport we'd stopped on a hotel car park to re-check that we had our documents before we'd got too far from home. It was an independent hotel with an unusual name, in fact the immediate area is known locally by the name of this hotel as the name goes back years. A few days later a cousin took us out to a local bar near his home in upstate NY and we got talking to a man whose family had emigrated from the UK many years ago. He said that his family originated from England and there was a hotel and area which bore the family name. It was the hotel where we'd briefly parked up.

elusivemoosive · 03/02/2017 23:54

I got a job as a waitress in an Italian restaurant when I was 16. It was in a different town to where I lived. My family lived in a third town. They didn't know I worked there, as we were somewhat estranged at the time. One day at the restaurant I handed some dishes to the pot washer, he turned to face me, and we both did double takes. It was my Dad!! Who had a perfectly normal professional day time job... Just needed a bit of extra cash apparently!

Offler · 04/02/2017 00:00

DP's old Suzuki 125 (currently being restored by a friend from a box of bits) was first registered on the day I was born.

JaceLancs · 04/02/2017 00:00

I work for a very small concern - only 3 staff - our birthdays are all on consecutive dates

FortunaMajor · 04/02/2017 00:03

I moved to the other end of the country.

I wanted to view a house opposite to the one I ended up buying, but couldn't as an offer had just been accepted.

It was someone I went to primary school with who bought the other house.

colaflower · 04/02/2017 00:03

Bumped into our next door neighbours at Epcot Centre in Florida- they knew we were on holiday as they ran the newsagents, we didn't know they were away- they were on a two week ten day whistle stop tour and we were three weeks fly drive.... same place same time.. odd coincidence!

I was living in Cyprus and went to sort out insurance for my motorbike- went to agent and the man asked my name- turns out someone with the same name as my dad had just arranged insurance and I looked like his wife- never did meet them but I kept being told I'd just missed my doppelganger for quite a while! (its a fairly unusual surname- even more so abroad)

Probably more but cant think of them at the moment

DrCoconut · 04/02/2017 00:03

During 6th form my friend had her heart broken by her boyfriend. He dumped her quite unceremoniously and she was gutted. We all swore revenge. Fast forward 20 years and I'm teaching adults at college. Guess who turns up to enrol. I marked all his work fairly and he passed. He's also plump and thin on top now 😂

JaceLancs · 04/02/2017 00:04

Years ago I used sell antiques at a local antiques centre, another stall holder and I used to bump into each other all over the county, and used to joke about it - I never even knew her name
Went on holiday to the Italian lakes and there she was - staying in the same hotel.......,

MalcomSaville · 04/02/2017 00:04

Oh Worra you grump, why does OP have to give examples. The idea itself is very interesting.
This is a great thread, well done OP.

TheGirlWhoWasntThere · 04/02/2017 00:05

I'm adopted. Was when I was a baby. Closed adoption so I never knew any of my history other than the city where I was born.

Left home and moved to that city and eventually bought a flat.

A few years later my birth father tried to find me through a specialist agency. They managed to get me all the social worker's notes that worked on my adoption so I now know all my history. The circumstances of my adoption. I eventually decided not to meet my birth father for reasons I'd rather not talk about on here.

Anyway on to the strange coincidence. The flat I had bought and had lived in for years (and had my children) was 2 streets away from where both my birth mother and birth father had grown up. (They lived on the same street growing up).

I have since moved away from there but it still mystifies me just how I came to buy my flat so close to where my birth parents spent their childhoods.