Page 5 | What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

Itisnoteasybeingdifferent · 04/02/2017 07:55

Driving through France. We stopped for fuel at a service station where the same garage servs both directions. I started filling up and looked across the garage to the cars from other carriageway, (they are separated to stop people avoiding tolls). A friend from the sailing club was also filling up right next to me. A minute either way and we would have missed each other.

Tarahumara · 04/02/2017 08:00

Lorry arrived delivering several very heavy pallets for our building work. Lorry driver said he couldn't get the pallets into our driveway as they were too heavy on his pull-along cart. I was at a loss - we couldn't just leave them out on the road! - when a fork lift truck randomly drove past at that exact moment, picked them up on his fork lift thingummy and drove them into my driveway for me!

lavenirestanous · 04/02/2017 08:07

A friend of mine was planning on going to Berlin at short notice, I was planning to go to Paris at short notice. I couldn't get suitable flights, so spur of the moment decided to go to Amsterdam.
When I got back to the UK it turned out that exactly the same had happened to my friend, and she had decided to go to Amsterdam. Not only that, she had stayed at the same hotel as me (we worked out we must have missed each other at breakfast by minutes), and we'd been to the same places on the same days. In fact, it was unbelievable that we'd not bumped into one another. A study of my photographs showed we almost had - my friend was in the crowd in the background of one!

Ihatethedailymail1 · 04/02/2017 08:08

worra when I read your post, asking the OP to contribute I actually thought, that's nice and kind...most people want to get their own story out there, but you are actually interested in the OP herself.
Kind and thoughtful I thought....and then someone calls you on it!!!

Greenandcabbagelooking · 04/02/2017 08:11

I moved in with new uni housemates, in a big city the opposite end of the country to where I was born. I'd found them online, so no connection to any of them. Or so we thought...
Upon adding one new housemate on FB I discovered we had mutual friends. Turns out we were born and lived in the same small village until I was 4. Our mums knew each other, we'd been to playgroup together, been to parties. All the mutual friends were my childhood friends, but her long time school friends!

Hoppinggreen · 04/02/2017 08:17

When me and DH were 17 we both went on a school trip somewhere very unusual that most schools wouldn't go. We were there at the same time but different hotels and didn't meet.
It wasn't until years later when we were married and talking about places we had been that we realised what had happened

Purplebluebird · 04/02/2017 08:20

I'm Norwegian, and the princess in Norway was married to a man called Ari Behn. I was on a class trip to Germany, when I was 16. We went to Sachsenhausen (sp?), and guess who was there! Yup, we got lots of pictures with him! He's very short, haha!

hoopdeloop · 04/02/2017 08:21

When my mum had me, she got chatting to the woman in the bed next to her as myself and her daughter were born on the same day. This was the only maternity hospital in the whole county (quite a large area)

Fast forward five years and I end up going to school with the same girl!

highlandholiday · 04/02/2017 08:21

I got married on my birthday. I got talking to someone else who got married on their birthday-turned out it was the same day (although different years)

debbs77 · 04/02/2017 08:31

I went to college to do a GNVQ. Did that for two years then worked for a year before going to uni.

During my work year I met my (now ex) husband.

A few years later we were going through some old papers and he found his acceptance letter from the college I went to (he didn't live locally to it). Signed by my tutor! He never took the place!

I believe in fate and that we were meant to meet some day, we just missed the first opportunity!

Heatherbell1978 · 04/02/2017 08:33

Years ago I had a room mate from Perth, Australia (I'm in Scotland). Around 4 years after she left to go back to Oz I was on the Gold Coast travelling and went into an Internet cafe on the top floor of a mall and sat in the only empty seat. Guess who was sitting next to me....weird!!

Agerbilatemycardigan · 04/02/2017 08:33

Many years ago, my ex and I went on holiday to a place called Ancora in Portugal where we met a newly married couple. We ended up doing some of the same trips and then the holiday ended and that was that. A couple of months later, my ex, my late father and I hired a boat and pottered along the Thames on it for a few days and one day decided to stop at a small town for supplies. Whilst in a local shop, we bumped into the wife of the couple we'd met in Portugal. Apparently her parents lived there.

The following summer, myself and my ex went to an air show in Wiltshire where I have family, and realised the man that was waving madly at us from across the field was her husband who was in the army and was giving a demonstration. Sadly, that was years ago and we've never seen them since.

Another time when I was on Orchard road in Singapore, I heard someone call my name and it turned out to be someone that I'd met while living in Germany! It's a small world...

witsender · 04/02/2017 08:35

Our old yacht was registered on the day that my dad was born, built in our home town. Dad actually met the designer and builder and he came to the relaunch.

Chicken4dinner · 04/02/2017 08:36

I started a new job and my boss mentioned he had to drive home via an area close to where I live as he needs to pick up post from his old house. He had sold his house after a divorce but hadn't got the post redirected. I mentioned that my niece and her husband had recently got married and moved it that area. Boss said "oh, whereabouts? I lived in Acacia Ave" (name changed). I said "they've moved to Acacia Avenue".
We both looked at each other and said "26" at the same time.
After that I had the job of picking up boss's post from my niece.

TheDowagerCuntess · 04/02/2017 08:40

My ex(-husband) and I had the exact same names as his Dad and Mum respectively.

And his name was (is) the same name as the road that my family have lived on for 6 generations.

Buddahbelly · 04/02/2017 08:40

My mum hired our local swimming pool for my 8th Birthday, all my class came and we had a fab time until 3 gatecrashers pushed there way in and kept going on the slide, they went unnoticed at first but when we all got out to have our meals they kept making a nuisance of themselves.

Years later I was sorting through photos and came across my pool party ones - When dp started laughing, It was of course dp, his brother and his cousin that had gatecrashed my 8th party and they were in the background of the photos.

RedHeadMumma · 04/02/2017 08:41

Met my bf on a chat website, we both hit it off and had daily phone calls for about two months before the conversation came up about where we lived in detail and found out he lived in the same area as I was born ( I lived there until I was 8 but my dad still lived in the area ) so strange considering I lived over 5 hours away from him at that time... that was almost three years ago and we're still together 😊

lokisglowstickofdestiny1 · 04/02/2017 08:44

Many years ago my parents in laws next door neighbours went on holiday to Florida. When they got back they were showing parents in law their photos. In one of the photos, queuing for a ride at Disney world, were me and DH.

user1471552546 · 04/02/2017 08:48

My DH has a very unusual surname .one day we went to the village were he grew up to a car sales place got talking to the owner and ended up buying a car for Ds we happened to mention that DH was from the village but moved away years ago oh do you know family who live in the village with same sur name no says DH haven't got any living relations around said area now . Not only do they live in the same village they live in the same street. Definitely no relation .

girlandboy · 04/02/2017 08:48

I was once thinking about someone who I'd not seen for about 10 years. The home phone rang, and it was him! Actually made a shiver go down my spine.

Fintress · 04/02/2017 08:49

We met some lovely ladies on holiday and the following year we went to NY to get married. We hadn't told anyone. Who did we meet but the ladies from the year before which was amazing. The following year we went to London to see the Rolling Stones, yup we bumped into them again! Quite unbelievable.

A number of years ago my parents were on holiday and met an English couple who had just got back from Florida. They got chatting about where they were from. Chap says he met someone in Tampa who was trying to trace his family from our area. He told my mum his name and she said she had a cousin of that name. She took a business card the chap had and phoned Florida when they got home. It was her cousin and he flew over 2 days later. It was incredible.

ihearttc · 04/02/2017 08:52

In work in a school and we had a PD day a year or so ago with staff from other schools. I turned round and literally walked straight into one of my oldest friends from school who I hadn't seen or spoken to in over 20 years. Was rather bizarre!

LittleCandle · 04/02/2017 08:52

I have a bit of a reputation for meeting people I know wherever I go. The night after I got married we were in York and heading into a pub and out of the pub came a guy I had been to college with. We had graduated the month before. On arrival in Miami, we had to collect our cases as we'd missed our connecting flight. At the next baggage carousel was a girl I had gone to school with. We stayed with XH's cousins in Canada and it turned out they were friends with another school friend of mine.

And my oldest friend met my doppelganger while on holiday in the Canaries a few years ago.

oleoleoleole · 04/02/2017 08:56

My son has just got engaged.

His DF father has same name as my DH
His DF sister has a partner who has my name
His DF mother has same birthday as my youngest DS

I miscarried my first child
Went on to have two more
Years later met DH and one of his DC came to live with us, that DC was born the day my first child was due
I always wanted three children and it's given me a lot of comfort over the years that in a way I have!

anonymousbird · 04/02/2017 08:56

I have two.

Met my housemate from Uni on the harbour front in San Francisco, and neither of us knew we were going to be there as it was a last minute summer holiday travel plan for each of us (separately!)

Another very good Uni friend who was Swiss, actually grew up as a young child in my house in South Bucks!!!!