What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

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Ulan Bator!!

Hazel :-)

BikeRunSki that's so sad. A whole life where they could have been together.

Had to giggle at Ulan Bathroom

Mine isn't as impressive as most of these. But I have a friend who is 1 year older than me, her dh is 1 year older than dh. First 3 kids are 1 year older than each of mine. And all 6 kids birthdays are within 6 weeks of each other with days between most birthdays. Our fourth kids spoilt it a bit - mine is a month younger than hers.

My bank card had expired and a new one came through the post. I opened the envelope and the card number was also my PIN number
1234 5678 8765 4321

Boring but it impressed me!

Ive also been to USA, Spain and turkey and bumped into people I know, one being a family member

I was in the supermarket today and was very impressed Boone of the staff. He didn't serve me but the way he dealt with a very old, slow couple on his till was excellent.

Anyway, I went to fill in a customer comment card and it turns out that this lad has the same surname as me, which is not a common name and is foreign to here too.. Hope they dont think I have filled it in as we are related!

Should read by one, no idea where Boone came from!

Great thread!

My mother slipped and broke her wrist at the exact time my daughter was born. She was out because she had a feeling something was wrong. We found out she must have left the house when my waters broke and fell as dd arrived. We live on the opposite sides of the world.

My PIN number is also my extension number at work. Both numbers were allocated randomly to me, by organisations that have nothing to do with each other.

Early on in my relationship with my now DH we discovered that throughout my childhood while he was a teenager he had been living with his mum and dad next for to my Aunt. We obviously didn't know each other at the time nor recall ever meeting when younger. Turns out he knew my relatives well and his mum has made my Great Aunt some Fabergé eggs which are now with her grandchildren in America. Small world 😁

My DH's family all live in southern England, I am from up North. Found out that his grandparents were stationed local to me during the war, and used to shop in my grandmothers shop.
My DH, MIL, myself and Dh's grandmother had joint 40th, 50th, 60th and 90th party.
My MIL and FIL both have birthdays on same date, different months. As do I
and my DH, and my 2 DDs and BILs ( they are same day). Married exDh and DH on same date.
I like an easy life, with not too much to remember!

cant think of any bar that we found out about DD on ex-DP's birthday... she was coincidentally born on mine.

Years ago we were travelling in India and went to Kashmir, staying in a houseboat on one of the more isolated lakes. It felt as though we were at the end of the world, miles and miles from anywhere.
We were there over Christmas and our landlord invited us onto one of his other boats to share a Christmas meal (yes, even in Muslim Kashmir!) with his other guests. Two of the group were Australian men and it turned out that they had recently been living in London, around a couple of hundred yards from our own house.

My DH parents and mine were born in the same year i.e. Mums were born the same year the same month one day apart and the dads the same year the same month only 10 days apart all the children of said parents are in order BIL,ME,DH then my sister each only one year apart and my BIL and sister are the same month but a day apart! Kinda weird I thought? 😮

First house number adds up to make the second house number, and the second adds up to make the third (and current) house number.

Not all that weird but it's all I've got

Hadn't seen my cousin for over a decade until we became friends on Facebook. Turns out our daughters share the same birthday... and name

I've told this one before, but when I was about 4, my mum took me to a local fete at which there was a raffle. Main prize was a handmade wooden Noah's ark with lots of animals. I was obviously very taken with it, so my mum bought a few tickets and thought no more about it.

A few weeks later, apropos of nothing, I asked her when my Noah's ark was being delivered. She gently explained that given the time elapsed and the probability of winning (in terms a four year old can comprehend), I probably hadn't won.

Later that day the phone rang. It was to arrange delivery of the Noah's ark. Freaked her out a bit!

And like others, lots of weird date arrangements in my family.

My parents have the same birthday. The exact same birthday. Born on different sides of the world, so quite a coincidence they ended up together!

DH and his only brother both had their first born on the same day (7y apart).

My DS was due on my birthday (didn't rock up then, mind you). DD was due on my DNephew's birthday (4 days late).

I found out I was expecting DS a year to the day after my first kiss with DH. A first kiss which took place in a pub near our office. Years later, I would make a friend via MN and discover she held her wedding reception in that pub a couple of days previously and her flowers were still in situ when we had that first kiss.

I was taken into a city hospital for emergency surgery last year. (As in not a close city, passed multiple hospital to go to that one!) and got talking to the lady in the bed opposite. She asked where I lived, so explained ( I live very very remotely, touristy area) and she said she had family in the area.

We joked that we would probably be related...conversation fizzled out. Later that day my DP visited, also got talking to her, turns out it his uncles - aunt. This is not a total relation, but still we found it pretty weird!

Driving to a conference at Halloween last year and am listening to a riveting ghost story. To my annoyance, the radio station gives out just as it's getting good and I think I'll never know what's happened. Two days later, I start driving home, turn on the radio and in a bit, the very same story comes on, pretty much starting where I left off.

Mine is like Fenella's, I am in the background of my DH's festival photos from the year before we met!

just found this thread,fascinating stories.have a few myself
1, my Dad was one of a family of ten (Irish Catholic) all male except one ,my aunt being the eldest, all the men in the family died on 1st day of the month and my aunt died on last day of the month.

2 , I was dreaming one night of a old neighbour who I hadn't seen or heard of over the previous twenty or so years ,next day my Mum rang and said"you'll never guess who called to see me today?" yip, it was the lady I'd been dreaming of the night before.

3, while on honeymoon in Miami with my dh he used the phrase "big ,and old and ugly enough" and I was telling him about my irish dancing teacher saying it to me as a child and how upset and offended I was at the time. As I finished the story I heard my name being called only to see the dancing teacher standing there ,

When DS1 was a toddler I used to see a little boy around his age coming out of the house opposite -
I never met his working mother but chatted to nanny occasionally in passing and boys interacted a little.
By the time he was 3 they had moved away.
Roll on 10 years and DS went to boarding school in Hertfordshire ( we are in london).
His dorm had 4 boys - one of whom it turned out was the little boy who lived opposite us 10 years before!
They are now at Uni together!

I was about to tell my manager that I was pregnant, but I decided to tell my work colleague first, as soon as I said I've something to tell you, she said 'you're pregnant aren't you?' I said yes! She said, 'guess what, so is Jo.' Jo is her daughter, so she was going to be a grandmother. Turned out we were the same number of weeks pregnant! That was 12 years ago, when I fell pregnant with my first born.

Then in a different job, 8 years later, this conversation took place between me & my colleague.
'I've something to tell you.' I said. 'You're pregnant aren't you?' She said. 'Yes. I said.
A huge smile spread on her face.
'Steven's (her son) girlfriend is pregnant, I'm going to be a grandma!' Turned out I was the same number of weeks pregnant as her son's girlfriend then as well!

On a much much sombre note, my cousin, died in a road traffic accident many years before I was born on 1st November. My brother was also killed in a road accident on 1st November.

I was once treated in hospital by a nurse who used to live in our house when he was a child, we were the third family to own it after they sold it so had no way of knowing. He said he didn't know why he asked whereabouts we lived either because it wasn't something he would normally say

I wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't said the house number first, and he said he wasn't totally convinced until they finally found my notes later and he saw it for himself