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?

Years ago I had planned to spend a weekend with a friend who lived some miles away. We didn't see each other often and DH was coming along as was her DP at the time.
The night before we went I had the strongest feeling that DH was going to know her DP. I hadn't even heard his name at this point or seen his picture (prior to FB and camera phones!) but it was such an overwhelming feeling. I could see it in my mind clear as day, it was bizarre (not the guy but the situation). Lo and behold, we get to my friends and her DP and my DH know each other from years back when they went to primary school briefly together. I hadn't mentioned to DH or DF that I felt that way. Still makes me feel weird!

I've also been in a restaurant where it was every table was a different birthday celebration. But I guess not many people would be out on a wet Monday night in late November otherwise.

I live in the north east of Scotland, miles from anywhere, but come from down south. The first job I had here included working in a wee shop. But it wasn't really my responsibility and I'd only go in if no-one else was available, so I really didn't spend that much time in there.

We'd have to give a wee talk to anyone who came in, and let them try some of the products on offer. So there'd sometimes be a wee bit of blether. During the time I worked there I met someone who lived about 1/2 mile from my mother (ok, not that big a coincidence but still..), neighbours of good friends of mine (I'd never met them before) and the brother of my first form tutor. The last one was the oddest as we somehow worked that out even though there were about 20 people in the shop when he was there.

Friends of mine came up to visit, and, whilst they were here we took the train to go somewhere they particularly wanted to go. I shared a table with the mum and children, whilst the dad sat at the opposite table. I was telling them all the above and the father clearly didn't believe what I was saying. A couple got on at the next stop and sat at the same table as the dad. They exchanged pleasantries, and quickly discovered that they lived down he same road, but were strangers. In the light of the conversation we'd just been having the dad was flabbergasted!

A few years before my son was born I bought a pretty clock. When I got pregnant I decorated the baby room and put the clock in it even though it had now stopped working, it looked nice. First night home with the baby we had visitors so I took him up to his room to feed him, looked at the clock and the time it was stopped was 5.05, my son was born a 5.05

flumpybear I remember that storm, my cousin's car ended up a write-off due to being heavily damaged by the massive hailstones.

SunnyDaysrock - how on earth did you know that?

Last night I was getting the bus from one city to my mum's, 3.5 hour journey. I asked the lady sat behind me to mind my bag for a moment and she did, when I came back to my seat started making small talk. It turned out she did the same job I'm training in - not a hugely popular career - and was friends with all my lecturers. 3 and a half hours of solid conversation later we've swapped mobile numbers and semi arranged to go on a day trip together. She is absolutely lovely, big hug when we got off the bus. Offered to sort out future placements for me and all sorts , just sheer coincidence we happened to be sat next to each other on the same bus.

One day, in the mid '90s, I was browsing Teletext penpals (!) and decided to write to one particular girl, who lived about 300 miles away. About 6 or 7 years later, I was working in London and one day, forwarded a jokey email to the woman I sat next to, which had been sent to me from my Teletext penpal. She said "do you know X?" I said yes, we became friends through Teletext penpals and she said, so did she! I really thought that was a big coincidence, that we both looked at the penpal page on the same day (it changed daily), wrote to the same person and then ended up working together in central London years later!

Also discovered that my DH's granddad and mine both worked together many years ago.

And also my mum's mum and my dad's mum used to play together as children. I know that's not particularly weird, but it's a bit of a coincidence, when you then lose touch and your future children end up marrying.

That's a great meeting/happenstance, shouldnthavesaid. What's the expression? Serendipity?

A couple of years ago I discovered that an acquaintance, who isn't from the UK, was born and brought up in a village 15km from where my birth mother (who I've never met, as I'm adopted) came from. There was something about his accent (which, of course, I've never heard from my BM) which sounded so 'right' to me. It was utterly bizarre when I discovered the connection.

Years ago when I was a teenager, our family lived abroad.
My dad dropped my mum and us children off at a hypermarket to do some shopping while he went to work for an hour or so.
After doing the shopping, we went outside to wait for a while and a pay phone started ringing. My mum for some reason answered it. The caller was my dad! He was shocked because he had been trying to call a Swiss supplier (neighbouring country) for work, but had misdialled the number.
They still can't get their heads around it.

Ducknose - something similar happened to my grandmother. She answered a payphone and it was a call meant for her even though the caller had dialled the wrong number!

Wow how strange allegretto!

I have put this on here before..

My sister came home to my parents' house one weekend and my mum was going through a load of old clothes she had kept from the 70s, and my sis picked out some that she liked and took them home back to London.

A few weeks later, her and her now husband got engaged. She sent pics of the happy occasion and she was wearing a burgundy floral tea dress that had once belonged to my mum....my mum went white as a sheet when she saw the pics, as it was the very same dress she had worn when my dad proposed to her 35 years before......a lucky dress indeed!

BigHands I literally just had a feeling! Super strange. My DD is Laila....

My 3 year old was starting to throw a tantrum because I'd opened the jam and he wanted to do it (sigh) so I started explaining along the lines of "I can't see what's in your head, just like you can't see in mine" and then by way of distraction from the injustice of the jam situation "what am I thinking of right now" him "an apple" "yes ok, I was thinking of an apple, what am I thinking of now" him "a horse" "ummm, ok yes, let's play a different game". Rationally I suppose apples are maybe the thing that most easily comes to mind, and maybe horses after that because horses eat apples but I was still a bit freaked out. Really hope he can't read my mind :(

Although, thinking about it if he is able to read my mind then he should have realized I was about to open the jam jar and said anything and we wouldn't have had the situation in the first place!

Maybe kids do have a bit of the telepathy though?

Not one of mine, but my sisters.

She was looking through old photos as you do on occassion, and on one of her holiday pics on a beach in cornwall or somewhere, in the background, was a picture of a man and with his family, who she is now married to.

This pic was from about 20 years ago and she was in holiday with her previous husband and kids!!!!!

It the current thread about "names that can be shortened to Bo", I am absolutely convinced that someone has described my sister (a Bo). I've PM'ed them, but no reply.

A couple. I had a random dream that I was in bed and DH and three of his best friends were in our room. I was worried that they would see my bum and for some reason I was getting undressed, but it wasn't sexual. The next day I was taken really ill, I vomited, my temperature dropped and I was shaking uncontrollably, to cut a very long story short I was in my room having an injection in my bum cheek, given by DH`s friend while he and his other friend were in the room and then I was taken into hospital where DH's third friend worked. They all saw my bum .

Another is that I wrote a whats app of a picture of Speedy Gonzalez to DH and a caption saying 'I Juan you to go to Mexico and buy me a tequila" the mood just took me and I often send him random shit when I'm bored at work. The following week his company said they wanted him to take a three month contract in Mexico.

On holiday with a group of about 8 couples of friends in Sri Lanka some years ago. Spent a few marvellous days together at the beach. After that, we all went our separate ways for three nights, planning on rejoining as a group later. Everybody travels to various location. First night of our travels alone, me and DH are sitting down to dinner in an entirely new city, when two of our friends walk in!

I colleague and I went to a trade show in Paris. He was from Canada and had visited our site twice in 10 years one being the previous summer. I was telling him and another colleague about my DM and her hobby and how she and her pals were representing scotland in a competition the previous year my Canadian colleague was looking at me funny then said "I think I met your mum" transpired that they had stayed in the same airport hotel when he was in Scotland.

Flopjustwantscoffee I had a similar experience playing hangman. I guessed correctly before even knowing how many letters or words 3 times in a row.

Myself and my family have found everytime we move somewhere there is always a street with the same name. the same name as an area of our original hometown and its not common at all.

My partner and I attended the funeral of a young child a few years ago and I had very upsetting dreams for the following weeks. My partner is quiet in general but particularly at the time. I found out later, as he told a mutual friend, that as I described each of these dreams in detail he was realising that he was having exactly the same dreams as me each night, all details the same. He didnt want to upset me more by saying at the time.

I did an O level at college (many years ago)

Sat next to my new classmate somehow the subject of birthdays came up

We were both born on the same day in the same year...turns out we were born at the same small hospital in the same town