Weird Coincidences.....

[M4Dad]

I had one yesterday, whilst working into work one of the guys on Reception said to me "I had a dream about you last night, are you going to be moving to Chicago soon?"

Which is pretty random, but not as random as the fact I spent the previous evening in bed reading quite extensively about Meigs Field, which is an airport on lake Michigan, Chicago, in fact, I fell asleep whilst reading the book.

To me that's quite a mental coincidence. Anyone else?

After I finished Uni my parents moved house to a neighbouring town. My DH and I lived in London (hundreds of miles away from our family) and went out for a friends' birthday. Met a guy at the party and got chatting about home etc, he said that a new family had just moved in next door to his parents. Yeh, it was my parents and brothers. Just weird. Him and DH are best friends now.

My Dad died earlier this year and when I read the death announcement my DM had put in the local paper, the announcement right next to it was the death of my EXFIL who I had not seen for 25 years.

I've posted elsewhere about this before but my man died in 1981 and st her funeral a massive storm hakoened and lightening struck our home and blew out the telly aerial socket - limited damage under the circumstances - my mum always said it was nanny saying goodbye. She said all the time after that that when she died she'd cause a storm too

Literally 20 minutes after she died of a lengthy battle with organ failure there was a storm - on another thread I commented the same and someone commented it wasn't just a storm on that day it was a supercell storm - over the Midlands where I live - mum lived in Australia and I had a newborn so couldn't travel to say goodbye .... I think she travelled to us 💜💜💜 ⛈
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/hinckleyweatherblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/leicestershire-supercell-storms-of-28th-june-2012/amp/

I sold 4 things on eBay on the same day- and they were each going to a town that is of particular significance to me.

I sold something else that went to a woman I saw at the school gate every day. She was very surprised when I turned up with it and her p&p refund less than half an hour after she paid for it!

I sit on appeals panels for several schools. One year I sat on two panels for 2 schools a few miles apart, one was a couple of weeks after the other. We allowed one appeal for each school. Both successful appellants had exactly the same name - first and surname. Not the same child, different families who came along, and different stories.

On the day of my wedding I was listening to the radio. The first song played was the song we had chosen for our first dance immediately followed by a song, hardly ever played which is about someone with exact name of DH. I have never heard this song played again and we have been married 27 years.

Ds goes through fads of favourite programmes and when he does we tend to record loads to watch, then he moves on after a while. Once he hasn't asked to watch a particular programme for absolutely ages I'll delete them to make room. Without fail, the next morning he'll ask to watch that particular programme that he hasn't bothered with in months. It happened again this week and it actually freaked me out a little as this one was a strange show that he'd only watched 3 or 4 times before getting bored of.

I moved house a few weeks ago, to the other end of the same-ish area

After a couple of days of unpacking, I went to a nearby cafe for a break
As I walked in, a friend I haven't seen/spoken to for about a year was sat at one of the tables, with her phone in her hand

She looked quite shocked and turned the screen around to show me - she was typing a message to me to tell me she is renting a house in my new area while work is done on her house, and we should meet up soon!

@doodlejump1980
"@Sundaynightlights maybe your Mum had triplets but gave one away? Oooooo". Many years ago an ex-colleague, who I was still vaguely in touch with through a mutual friend, was pregnant with triplets. Unfortunately her 'D'P left her while she was pregnant. Apparently she decided she couldn't cope with three babies all by herself, so decided to give one, or two, up for adoption. When she had them, she decided to keep the identical twins and give the non-identical one up for adoption . (Sorry, that was rather off-topic )

Some years ago I had two Danish friends, one lived a couple of roads from me and the other was his lodger while he worked on a long-term contract here in the UK. Eventually his contract ended so he went back to Denmark. About three years after his return to Denmark, I was shopping in my local high street before going to meet some friends in a pub about a mile away. I spotted a guy (wearing a blue jumper) on the other side of the high street who looked just like the guy I hadn't seen for those three years. He wasn't near enough for me to call over, particularly with the heavy traffic, but I managed to get a good look and decided that the resemblance was remarkable. I arrived at the pub and who should walk in shortly after me were both of the Danish guys (visiting guy was wearing a red jumper). I was astonished to see him back here in the UK and asked him if he'd been in the high street a little earlier. He looked a bit perplexed and said that he hadn't, they'd both gone straight to the pub from the other guy's house (and their route was nowhere near the high street). I'm quite sure he wasn't winding me up and he wouldn't have had time to change his jumper!

DH is in sales, self-employed so not part of a big company.

Last year we were travelling back to London from a family wedding in Liverpool. Train was heaving and at Runcorn a man in a suit sits opposite us (table of 4). He opens his briefcase, gets out a business card and dials a number....

Yes, DH's phone rings!!! The look on their faces when they realised they were talking to each other was priceless! They had never met, he'd been given DH's card by a customer of DH's. We live in Kent and rarely travel 'Up North'. He lives in West London and was the first time he'd been to Cheshire in 10 years.

Years ago my friends decided to go on a daytrip to the beach.for some reason or other I couldn't attend.
A few weeks after I went to my friends house.as I was looking at the collage of photos on her wall I spotted a group photo of all my friends with my cousin.
I asked why she had a photo of my cousin on her wall.
She told me that when they got the bus to the beach they met my cousin on the bus and chatted to him for the whole 40 minute journey.they even got selfies with him.
The next time I saw my cousin,I told him that my friend had his photo on the wall from the bus journey to the beach.
It's a small world.

I went on holiday to Tenerife, whilst walking around a market I bumped into my neighbours daughter.

My flat mates business partner came to drop some documents off and realised that the flat we lived in was the same flat where he and his family has spent their holidays every year when he was a child.

This thread shows just how small the world is and how common these same people/same places coincidences are.

I got on the tube once and was at the end of the carriage near the window at the end. Looked through the window and my brother was in the next carriage!

Another time I was on the tube and it stopped. It was outside of the tunnels on a bit that goes outside. Another train stopped next to us and my cousin happened to be in the other train. Frantic waving and laughing!

Similar to a PP. I turned on my tape player, back in the day, to play the tape inside, Best of the Eagles. It wasn't where I wanted it to be so I pressed rewind. But the Eagles song kept on playing. Freaked out I pressed stop. It kept on playing. I pressed eject and took the tape out. It. Kept. On. Playing.

Finally I realised I had the machine set on radio, and the radio was playing Desperado.

My mum and dad were in a restaurant. Didn't you come here once says Dad to mum. Absolutely not, says mum. I have never been to this place before in my life. Never ever ever.

Dad glances at the wall and there is a photo of mum and a group of friends from some years ago, living it up in that very restaurant.

It was funny as mum had been so adamant in her denial and truly believed she had never been there before.

I was once on a tube train and thought the woman opposite me was X, a lovely woman I used to work with. Had to look again to check it wasn't actually her.

Got up and walked all the way down the carriage to get off, not sure why. But much further down, there was X! And we managed a little chat before I had to get off. Hadn't seen her in about 7 years...

I started a new job and my manager mentioned that after work he had to go to a certain area to pick up a parcel from his old house. He had moved earlier that week and hadn’t changed the delivery address in error.

It was an area that my recently married niece had moved into so I asked which road.....and then which number.

My niece had bought his old house. As I was planning to visit at the weekend I picked up his parcel for him.

@60percentofthetime I think that sort of thing is quite common. After doing a load of hippie birthing yoga / Hypnos stuff, and then reading about the biology and psychology of birthing I read that there's a load of evolutionary reasons our bodies often sync with when it's 'safe' to give birth.

My friend was overdue until the morning that her mum would be 'safe' to visit the baby (her DM had had radiation treatment so wouldn't have been able to see them otherwise).

My DH was away a lot before our DC was born, but within 24 hours of him being 'properly' done I'd gone into labour and had the baby on my due date!

@itchywanksocks I think you're right. I remember feeling as DH went off to work that DS could arrive now. I think DH was worried that he was going to spend 2 weeks with an overdue grumpy pregnant lady

Freakiest/most bizarre thing still makes me go funny. A couple of years ago me and my friends were drunkenly trying to predict who would be on that years 'Im a Celebrity'. Our random list included Tony Danza (Who's the Boss US show from years ago) and a member of The Bangles (we didn't know any names). About 3 nights later was watching Family Guy when Peter sang a song about Tony Danza to the tune of 'Walk like an Egyptian'! So freaky.

I love this thread as I'm a big fan of coincidences. I find them very affirming. I'm having a bit of a frustrating time at the moment, trying too hard to make things happen and it has reminded me that sometimes the world works mysteriously and these periods pass.

Coincidences from the top of my head:

The day I went to register my daughter shortly after her birth, I got in the car and started it and the radio came on, playing a song where her name was the title. An old song, that you don't hear that often.

Years ago my sister got together with a new guy and it turned out his birthday was the same as my boyfriend's. It was one day different to many other significant i have met through life too. Later I got together with someone else and married. sister and boyfriend married. Turns out both our husbands' dads are born on the same day, which is one day different to my mum.

I'm loving this thread. Like everyone, we always notice when we've been somewhere, that the place is mentioned such a lot when we come back, but put that down to heightened awareness.

One occasion I still find strange, we were celebrating my significant birthday in a tropical place. The breakfast area was outdoors. There were 3 couples left in the restaurant and it tended to be the same 3 left each morning. It was my birthday morning. A member of staff came out with a birthday cake. I was horrified as I can't stand a fuss. It wasn't for me, thank goodness, but the lady of one of the other couples. The lady of the second couple said to the cake recipient 'Happy birthday, it's my birthday too'. So out of 3 couples left in the restaurant, it was all of the 3 ladies' birthdays and we'd all travelled to celebrate a significant birthday.

BigHands was it 'Layla' by any chance?

This is my "coincidence" - although I like to believe it's fate.

I was at university and needed to get a job. I noticed a sign in the window of a pub in the city centre that was hiring part time bar staff. I went home and drafted up a cover letter and a cv. I'm a bit lazy so I didn't go back for a few days to go hand it in. I got to the door but I couldn't open it - not physically but something was stopping me and I thought to myself "it looks a bit rough, am not sure I can work there." So I left without handing in my cv.

A couple of weeks later a job listing on the university website came up for another pub. I was struggling with money so I found the address and went for an interview. It was a DIVE (think Shameless but 100 times worse) - way rougher than the previous pub I couldn't even walk into, but i took the job anyway!

A few weeks later the love of my life started working there. We flirted for a month or so before we finally went on a date and the rest is history! We're still together now 9 years later.

The coincidence? I found out that his immediate job before was at the pub I originally went to hand my cv into but didn't - and when I'd gone back to hand in my cv, that was when he'd left!!!

I raise Guide dogs. We can make requests around our availability, and things like sex, bread and colour but generally you're assigned a puppy based on a matching process the staff use.

My first puppy was born on my SIL's birthday.

My second puppy they called and asked if I would mind raising a girl even though I had a preference for boy pups because they had a great match for me. She was born on my FIL's birthday.