Page 4 | What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

lalalalyra · 04/02/2017 00:41

firsttimemum It has worked out lovely. I've met my grandfather, have a better understanding of the past (I'm the youngest of 4 siblings by quite a way and I was "protected" from a lot of things/had a lot of decisions made for me) and I see my Uncle and Aunt around once a fortnight now. Granny's sister also gave me photographs from my christening that I'd never seen before, including the only photograph I have of me as a baby with my mother before her drug addiction really took over.

bigmouthstrikesagain · 04/02/2017 00:47

Meeting dh. I was slightly enamoured with him at Uni. A few years later I am living in London and a friend of mine spots him dj'ing in a pub south of the river. A few months after that I turn up to the north London town hall where I work and he is having a fag, post job interview, on the steps of said town hall. A couple of months later...

30daysonly · 04/02/2017 00:49

Theysay everybody cried, but not sad tears if that makes sense!

EduCated · 04/02/2017 00:53

Went to Hong Kong for work, and had made vague noises about meeting up with an old colleague who had moved there the year before, but nothing planned or discussed.

Get to my hotel, crash for several hours then decide to get up and go for a walk. Turn the corner and physically bump into someone. It is, of course, ex-colleague on his lunch break.

He asks where I'm staying, and it turns out my hotel is in the same building as his apartment block.

showmeislands · 04/02/2017 01:07

I was living in Oxford and travelling into London for a meeting. I had arranged to come by a friend's house in a different area of London beforehand, then go pro my meeting. However my coach got stuck in traffic and as I was running late I texted my friend to cancel. Got into Victoria station to get the underground, it was really busy so I moved down the platform. Doors opened, I got into a carriage - and found myself standing in front of the friend I had been due to go see. Very weird!

TitaniasCloset · 04/02/2017 01:10

I like the spooky woo threads.

TheCustomaryMethod · 04/02/2017 01:17

I've remembered another - not very exciting, though.

Once I left home, there was a pattern to the numbers of the houses I lived in - the numbers of the first one added up to make the number of the third one, and then the numbers of the second one added up to make the number of the 4th. I only noticed this some time after I'd moved into house 4.

I have a theory that if I ever find my 'dream house' its number will complete this pattern in some way.

Oldsu · 04/02/2017 01:21

When we bought our new house 7 years ago the chap selling it told me that he didn't want to sell but his new partner didn't want to live in the same house as his old partner.

A year later I was in town when I saw someone I hadn't seen for 10 years, we discussed where we lived, when I told her she said ' I used to live there, what road, told her and she said 'I used to live in that road' what number' when I told her her jaw dropped, yes you guessed it she lived there, she was the old partner of the house seller.

6 months later Linda in one of the other offices got married I didn't know her very well, so didn't know who she married.

I was speaking to one of the young girls who was looking to buy a house, I recommended my estate agent particularly 'Brad' the guy who dealt with us. the young girls said that's Linda's new husband.

NormaStanleyFletcher · 04/02/2017 01:23

The one and only time I sent a letter to a newspaper (the Grauniad obviously) they published it directly above a letter from my father's old workmate who had known him (and me) for more years than I had been alive.

Thisrabbitthatrabbit · 04/02/2017 01:30

My first boyfriend committed suicide, my second boyfriend (DP) has two middle names which are BFs first and middle name. I didn't realise until we had been dating for a while and it brings me immense comfort.

RainyDayBear · 04/02/2017 01:32

When I lived in London I got on the tube and sat opposite a young Japanese family, they stuck in my mind because they were a sweet looking family and the little girl had really bright coloured trainers on. Later that day I got the tube back, same line but from a different station, and sat opposite the same family, with both of us sitting in the same seats as before! Definitely an odd coincidence.

MiMiMaguire · 04/02/2017 01:39

I was born on my older brothers 4th birthday.... So it's probably really my mum's strangest coincidence

ThymeLord · 04/02/2017 01:40

I had a friend who I met through work. We became very close. Circumstances led us away and we lost contact. I was on a bus going through a town and we passed a shop (Laura Ashley on Exeter high street) and it says underneath the towns that the shop is in, so it said London, Winchester and, i think, Bath. I said, to my daughter, my friend from x job was from Winchester. As the bus went up the high street I saw her walking down the road with her partner.

ThymeLord · 04/02/2017 01:42

I was born on the 19th. My daughter was born on the 19th. I got married on the 19th. My divorce came through stamped on the 19th.

SympathyPotato · 04/02/2017 01:54

Used to live in a large city some distance from where I live now. My boss' son lives in the same city but is from the area I live in. He was describing his son's flat recently and it turns out it was the same flat that DH and I rented for years when we lived there.

CaoNiMa · 04/02/2017 05:59

I went to a northern Chinese city in 2013 for an "international writers' conference." There was a woman there from Iceland. I had met her in 1995 on a youth orchestra exchange in Reykjavik!

TheTartOfAsgard · 04/02/2017 07:13

There was a group of friends at school - myself and 4 other girls. We went to different secondary schools and lost touch over the years.
Went to our 20 year reunion and it turns out that we all had our firstborn children (all girls) on the same date, but different years.

Neolara · 04/02/2017 07:24

I was in Oz after uni. My travelling companion and I decided to go clubbing at midnight. At the bus stop, en route, we met another English backpacker. Turns out his family had just moved into the house in Scotland that my travelling companion had just moved out of. He had even slept in her old room. Very weird..

Mombie2016 · 04/02/2017 07:36

3 of my 4 children were born at 39+4.

The 4th was induced early at 35 weeks. I often wonder if she'd have arrived at 39+3 like her siblings!

Mombie2016 · 04/02/2017 07:36

Urgh typo - 39+3*

KateDaniels2 · 04/02/2017 07:44

Me and dh were travelling to London to catch a plane to go on holiday. As we got off the train in kings cross i said 'i forgot to tell sally from next door that we are going away'.

As i finished saying it i walked into a woman on the platform and it was Sally from next door. I stood staring at her for about 30 seconds in shock. Then told her that we were going away

Autumnchill · 04/02/2017 07:47

Colleague and I got chatting one day and discovered we were born on exactly same date and both on an RAF base, our mums could have been next to each other on the ward!

On a train and reserved seats. Got chatting to a lovely older lady next to me, the usual, where you getting off, what you doing today. She was telling me how she had moved to our town as her son had met a lovely girl and they've got kids now so she's moved closer to be with them. She then starts telling me about her DILs family and how her cousin lives in a converted barn outside of York and her husband runs his own company, so I say 'Terry and June'? (name changed) and she says Yes!!! 'June' is my step sister of 38 years and I use to play with her DIL small world

Frouby · 04/02/2017 07:47

I never knew my real dad. He left the country when I was a baby and went to the kibbutz and disappeared.

A few months ago I was randomly searching fb for him. Found a profile that must be his.

It looks like he has travelled the world for much of his life. But did a degree in the same city at the same time I lived there in the same subject I studied through ou at the same time. The city is 100 miles from where I was born and where he was from. The only reason I was there was for work reasons. Which were pretty random too.

ChrissyHynde · 04/02/2017 07:48

Mines dates , my Grandma (93 and still going strong) is born on the 4 June . I left school on that date, passed my driving test on that date, moved into my own house on that date and went out for the first time , with my now DH, on that date

Gardenbirdy · 04/02/2017 07:49

I now live a 4 hour drive away from where I grew up in another part of the uk, in a tiny village. Met a mum at toddler group when I had DD, became friends, was invited to her DD's birthday party.
At the birthday party she says "do you mind if we don't do the cake until my friend from work arrives? She's running really late."
Her friend from work arrives - I went to school with her! Nearly fell over!