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WorraLiberty · 04/02/2017 00:10

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.

No, you're right.

It's completely 'grumpy' of me to invite an OP to participate in their own thread...

Actually I can't think what came over me.

Casz · 04/02/2017 00:11

Split up amicably with my first BF. He went back to his home town and we lost touch.

Several years later, on holiday (not in his home town), I was standing in a bus queue and noticed that the guy in front of me looked exactly like exBF from the back.

It wasn't exBF and I didn't think any more of it. Later that same evening exBF texted me to say hi - first time I'd heard from him in ages.

sobeyondthehills · 04/02/2017 00:11

I had a weird one, started going out with a guy. my family went on a weekend away to the coast, read massive piss up.

Cause we were still in the loved up stage, I had said he should come along, he had to work. Not a problem.

I turned down the suggestion of pub and said I just wanted a walk. Wondered my round the town, and decided to go to the train station. Got to this tiny train station just as a train pulled up.

Out got my boyfriend. I am not sure who was more surprised

UnbornMortificado · 04/02/2017 00:11

I'm pregnant it took two years so no planning a specific month or anything, this baby has the same due date as my son who died (prematurity) I'm taking it as a positive sign.

iknowimcoming · 04/02/2017 00:14

When DH and I got married (20 years ago) we deliberated for a long time over our first dance song, didn't really have one that felt stood out, but in the end we agreed on one from ghost the movie, pottery throwing etc Unchained Melody, anyway dhs best mate was a singer in a band and a Dj so he said he'd sort the band and disco for our reception, lovely.

On wedding day we were called up for the first dance and they played ........ a totally different song, a real oldie, The Rose, if you're interested, by Bette Midler and various others over the years, we were a bit but whatever, apparently the lead singer didn't know Unchained Melody so they did that, ok fine, we weren't bothered, thought it was funny.

Anyway fast forward to honeymoon in Kenya, booked up to go on an evening dinner cruise on a traditional African dhow (sp?) lovely, magical. Great meal and evening in general then at some point a band strikes up and the staff are encouraging the honeymooners to go and dance and then I realise the first song they are playing is the rose. I immediately do the face at dh - did you organise this? He swears no, nothing to do with it didn't even know there would be a band. Couldn't believe we'd travelled all that way, booked an excursion and they sang that song. Of course we put it down to fate (young romantic idiots) but is now one of my favourite songs and I'll have it at my funeral

bluesbaby · 04/02/2017 00:16

sobeyondthehills and what happened! I need to know the end! What was your boyfriend doing there?

MakeItStopNeville · 04/02/2017 00:17

I live in the US. My DS has a gf who is also non American, but not British. When I met her parents, we both had a weird feeling we'd already met. Turned out we had. At Bristol Zoo when DS and his now gf were about 2 and we shared a table over lunch and got chatting! Of course, NOW DS and his gf think they're destined to be together. 🙄

Kbear · 04/02/2017 00:19

I went to LA when I was 21 to visit family. My uncle by marriage worked in the film business. He was given a pass with his name on but they spelled it wrong. One letter wrong on both first name and two letters wrong on his surname. It was from a big film studios and he gave it me as a souvenir....

When I got home I met a bloke whose name matched that of the pass my uncle gave me and two years later we got married. Silver anniversary this year!

It was a sign I tell you ! lol

ChanandlerBongsNeighbour · 04/02/2017 00:19

Went on holiday with my best friend (originally booked to go with boyfriend but we split in the interim so best friend came instead). Staying in a quitter 'coupley' hotel a taxi ride away from the nightlife. Out drinking one night got chatting to a group of lads, I take a shine to one in particular and get to know him more. Turns out he lived in the town where I went to school, went to the same school, was in the same year as my older brothers and knew them both. We shared loads of the same friends but had never previously met! We went on to have a very serious LTR for the following few years!

sobeyondthehills · 04/02/2017 00:19

He had jumped on the train to come and see me as a surprise, was going to ring me when he got to the train station, he was not expecting me to be there. First time I had been to that train station, but just really fancied a wonder round

Ended up marrying him

And divorcing him

Kathmandu12 · 04/02/2017 00:20

I don't know if it's strange but probably the luckiest coincidence.

I went to a presentation of an industrial research organisation via my university org out of curiosity. Thinking I will never have the chance to set foot inside it again if I don't take advantage of this opportunity.

Turned out they needed someone with my background, and I got a one year highly prestigious internship out of it. :)

TheySayIamparanoid · 04/02/2017 00:22

30daysonly Don't know why but that just made me cry!

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 00:28

My ex who broke my heart got Married on 21st November 2015, my first baby's due date was that exact day but 2017.

Bambambini · 04/02/2017 00:28

Ok - was living in a city in Asia. Husband's friend (who he met in Asia) calls and asks if husband wants to go out for a drink as his friend is in town on business. Husband's friend asks me which town in UK we come from again - i tell him. Asks what street I lived in years earlier when i still lived with my parents. Only turns out his "friend" is my old neighbour who lived through the wall of our semi detached. So me and the husband ended up taking him out for dinner.

TheresABluebirdOnMyShoulder · 04/02/2017 00:29

DH and I (who grew up in different parts of the country) got talking about family holidays and realised that we were both up the same hill in Cornwall with our parents, in the pouring rain, watching the eclipse in 1999 as teenagers. And were both equally as sulky and unimpressed

Francinelle01 · 04/02/2017 00:29

I went on a course at work and got chatting to another attendee. Turned out we'd both been skiing the same week to the same resort and I'd actually seen him because he went skiing in a kilt one day which obviously stood out on the slopes.

lalalalyra · 04/02/2017 00:30

I was in Glasgow where my mother's parents came from at the library doing some family tree research. I didn't have any contact with them as they'd fallen out with my parents before we were removed from them when I was 7. There was an older couple at the next computer, and they were struggling to follow the instructions. The man got chatting to me about some of the paperwork I had brought with me (basically printed out blank birth/death certificates to fill in instead of randomly wriitng bits down) and I helped them search for a couple of things as they'd only just started family tree stuff. At that point I discovered we were searching for the same family and she was my Granny's sister. She'd been at my christening, but hadn't seen me/my siblings since as I didn't go to my mother's funeral.

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 00:30

My baby's due date was 2016 I mean!!* oops 😂

JennyWreny · 04/02/2017 00:32

A client was trying to ring my DH. They called the number below my DH name in their phone book by accident which was their contact at their bank. The phone rang at the bank. My cousin works at a fairly large branch of the bank and just happened to be passing an empty desk where the phone was ringing. She answered the call and was able to explain to DH's client that he had called the wrong number/wrong office but she did know Mr Wreny.

KarenPeralta · 04/02/2017 00:33

I've namechanged for this, because it will completely out me to anyone who knows me. About 10 years ago, my parents, sisters and I decided to go to NY together, figuring that as my sisters and I were adults, it might be the last family holiday we went on. So we booked flights, only to discover that my Aunt, Uncle and cousins were on the same flight.

So we travelled together, got to NY, Aunt, Uncle and cousins went to their hotel while we went to our apartment (we always rent apartments when we go to NY). Second day of our holiday, we were all out sightseeing, and my parents decided that they wanted a break, so went back to the apartment. As they were unlocking our apartment door, a bloke who was halfway up the next set of stairs stopped, walked down to them, and said 'you guys are from Ireland, aren't you'? Yes, said the parents. He then went on to say 'from insert name of town we're from, aren't you '? Yes said my parents, as they boggled at how he knew this. Turns out his fiancé was from the same town. They went upstairs to meet her, and on talking discovered that she'd grown up in the same street as my Dad, albeit 30 years later. She'd also worked as a nurse in our local hospital. When the parents told her we happened to be there the same time as my Aunt, Uncle and cousins, she asked about them. Said uncle had been very ill maybe four years previously, was in ICU. She had been one of the nurses who cared for him.

I swear, if somebody told me that story, I'd think it was bollocks, but it's 100% true.

Oh, and the couple were getting married the next day. In their apartment directly above ours. And invited us to their wedding. We didn't go as they were having a tiny ceremony, but sent up a bottle of champagne. The most bizarre of coincidences can happen!

firsttimemum15 · 04/02/2017 00:34

Lalalyra lovely

AllFurCoatNoKnickera · 04/02/2017 00:37

DH and I had been going out for 6 months before working out that our parents went to the same school. Turns out our dads had been best friends at school and we'd actually met once when we were babies. Their bromance continues to live on.

Invited an ex colleague to our engagement party. She explained she couldn't come because it was her sons engagement party that day. Her son and I share a name (very unisex name). We actually ended up getting married on the same day and the city abroad where he proposed is where DH and I got married. It's always stuck with me for some reason.

garlicandsapphire · 04/02/2017 00:38

Went to do my masters degree in the US. One of the other guys on my course lived a mile away from me but had grown up in Africa and went to the same primary school and was in the same class as my boyfriend in Zambia.

On the way home once in the airport I met an Aussie girl who had been on a coach trip with a German guy from my course. Very random!

sobeyondthehills · 04/02/2017 00:40

I do have another but I am not sure how true it is. My dad loves telling it

There was a man (Sid)found in Italy, no memory of where he came from, seemed to understand bits of Italian, months went passed and he went to a coffee shop and got talking to someone. Sid told him his story and they moved onto other topics, during the coversation Sid said a word, the man he was talking to said you are Maltese, Sid said how do you know, the man said, no other place speaks that language, don't learn the language unless they are born there. You Sid are Maltese

KarenPeralta · 04/02/2017 00:40

Oh, and my DP's Auntie was married to my Mum's cousin. When we talked about our families, we discovered that not only had my Great Grandmother given DP lessons in baking bread when he visited her with his Auntie as a child (as Great Grandmother was his Auntie's GMIL and she used to bring her kids and their cousins [DP and his sister] to visit her), DP and I were both at her funeral. He was 10, I was 6, we were both back in her house for the wake, so most likely played together in the garden with our siblings.