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?

Only a small coincidence.

Mil and Fil owned a lovely house when I met DP 10 years ago, they'd lived there since about 1993, having moved into my town from about 400 miles away.

Turned out my parents had tried to buy that house in the past but lost out to, you guessed it, Mil and Fil. Me and DP would have been 4 and 5 respectively.

Also when I was young I used to go to a friend's house all the time, her back garden backed onto another house where their young child was learning to play the drums so we could always hear it. Her parents always complained about it. 6 years later and my friend had moved away, I started high school and met my first boyfriend - the boy learning to play drums!

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Gammeldragz - you reminded me of another one! Exactly the same thing happened to me, except I was the random person being called! We spoke for about a minute as I was trying to remember who she was. She said I sounded funny and then double-checked the number. She'd misdialled and got me with the same name as the person she meant to call.

When I was naming my second son I really loved the name Connor, but didn't think it went with my eldest sons name. I was about to tell OH the other name I'd liked when the film that was on in the back ground suddenly went really loud and a character "what about Connor". We decided it was a sign and that was our sons name.

Love this thread!
I notice coincidences all the time!
The spookiest I have ever had was a few years ago.
I was in a newish job which I loved and had travelled to our offices in Amsterdam for work...my first time in the Netherlands.
On the return trip at the airport I decided to go a buy a drink at the bar as my flight was delayed. I never buy drinks before I board a plane but I was very very thirsty and was dying for water.
While I am grabbing my bottle of water my eyes cross the eyes of this guy who's staring at me like if I was a ghost.
I recognised him immediately as he used to work with me in my previous job.
I started talking to him but he had to compose himself ... I thought it was too much as I was surprised too but not to the point of not being able to Talk. I asked him if he was ok and he said....
cantbelieveit... you won't believe this but I have just started work for this new company with headquarters in the Netherlands and I met with my new boss this morning.
It turns out this was a company I had gone for interview the year before, got the job but then decided to go for my current company.
They seemed to still really like me as my ex colleague said that his new manager ( who had interviewed me) had asked him to contact me to ask if I was happy in my new job and if I was still interested to work for them.
This was before LinkedIn and Facebook and my ex colleague didn't have a contact for me and when I had appeared to him he was thinking to himself ... how can I contact cantelieveit... who would know her number?
Spooky or what?!?

Sorry that was a novel... too long! Got carried away...

When my mum passed away we decided to bring along some music to play as they lowered her coffin into the ground.

My mum was a lover of Abba and was always dancing to it in the house. Her favourite song was Dancing queen but we thought it wouldn't be appropriate for the funeral so we decided to play 'Fernando' as the coffin was lowered. Two seconds into 'Fernando' it skipped to 'Dancing Queen'.

Loved that

I know Franky, I'm tired I thought it was just me that didn't understand 😂.

Nope explained before Nettle I usually wouldn't expect a text, he's a grown man and I'm busy, we don't text that much when I'm competing. It was only because he sent a worrying text and I didn't know if he'd got home, I don't understand what's wrong with that? As others had said, if I'd been out with a girlfriend I'd do exactly the same.

Oops wrong thread!

Love this thread.

The biggest coincidence to happen to me was when I was 14.
My family and I had gone on holiday to Florida. My neighbours were in Florida at the same time, staying in different areas, they left a week before us..
On our second day there we went to Sea World. After lunch decided to go to the Orca show, my df and I were standing in the middle of the arena waiting for dm and dsis who had gone to the toilet.
All of a sudden I hear my name being called and look over to see my neighbour sprinting up the stairs. Yep, we had decided to go on the same day, to the same park and the same show.

We ended up meeting them again during the holiday and celebrated her 16th birthday in Busch Gardens.

When I was 5, we moved to a small town in the South West of England a few hundred miles away from where I was born - we had no links to the new area and my parents didn't know anyone from there.

Ten or so years later I become very good friends with a girl from school so our parents inevitably met. Over the course of time they discovered we all lived in the same American-British town / compound in Saudi Arabia when my friend and I were babies - at the same time - but never knew each other.

My parents said that EVERYONE knew everyone. The sad thing is that my friends mum hated it as she was so lonely whereas my parents see it as probably the best period of their lives.

When I was 6, I lived in a small village. Some neighbours had their similar aged grand daughter come to stay for Summer holidays and we spent the whole Summer together and the following (still friends now, over 40 years later). All normal so far.
15 years later I moved to London and rented a room off a guy. There was another lodger as well. We got chatting and it turns out lodger had lived in same town as my Summer friend and they were best friends at school whilst I was the holiday friend.

Also, last year, driving with a friend and listening to radio. A song came on that has some lovely memories of another very close friend. I was smiling so she asked why. I said "this song, and another one, It wasn't me, by Shaggy, have very some good memories for me of friend".
The next song was 'It wasn't me'. We both stared at radio in shock.

Quitmoaning... wow!

I have another similar to yours...
My best friend family from uni lived a bit far away from my family when we were still studying. Think one hour drive.
Fast forward 20 years and we are still best friends but I have moved to a different country but u still go back regularly to visit family.
On one particular visit a few years ago my friend picked me up from my sisters house and she met my niece, my sisters daughter, who was 16 at the time. As a normal chit chat asked her which school she was at. My niece answered and it was the same school my friends niece was at! Not only... the school was right half way distancewise from both girls (half an hour drive for each) and my sister had always complained that she still had to drive her sometimes but it was a good school so worth the pain..as the local secondary secondary wasn't as good.
To our amazement we found out our nieces always sat together and were bestest if friends, going on trips together with each other family! My sister knew her sister very well of course but because I had my friend in the country I now live in she had never made the connection.
We are still all friends now including our sisters!

I don’t believe in coincidences as such, I do believe in Devine intervention :) the other day there was a large stall in a shopping centre selling used cds and records. I was looking at the Kenny Rogers ones. They had a cheap one for £2 but I didn’t like the songs on it. The others were £6 but I didn’t want to pay that. Went back to the car got everyone in etc then the radio came on as we were leaving and a Kenny Rogers song had just started :)

This happened to me last Sunday.
11 years ago (to the day) my DH and I were on our honeymoon in Mozambique. (We weren’t from the U.K, we lived in the southern Hemisphere) We met a couple from the UK there, we got along well and as the resort was very small we saw a lot of them during the week. Two years later we emigrated and moved to the U.K., have been here for almost ten years now.
Last Sunday we were having breakfast when someone called my name.
It was the couple from our honeymoon! They don’t even live in the same county as us. Was so lovely to see them!

I haven't got one of my own, but my mind always boggles at these stories where a married couple discover an old childhood photo of one them on holiday that has their other half accidentally appearing in the background long before they met.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/engaged-couple-photo-before-they-met_n_5642772.html

My DS started nursery at 8 months, full time. A girl started in the same month. They became best friends right from the start, until very recently when, very sadly, they went to different infant schools.
I soon found out that they shared a birthday. At one nursery event, I managed to chat to his friends mom. It turns out that they were also born only three minutes apart from each other, though at different hospitals.

Another one: when I was at school, two of my best friends shared a birthday. Years later, I started working at a new workplace in another country and two of my colleagues again share that same birthday, same year. So I now know four people with the exact same birth date.

Had one tonight! I was rearranging some books and found a pretty card between 2 books. It was from a few years ago from my now late aunt, about her sister's (my mum's) death. She'd put "from my own experience, I believe that those who have been close to us in life remain close to us for a time after their passing, and then sometimes at intervals" - it was as if finding that message was her being close after an 'interval'.

My exh GM passed away in the 1990's & on the day of the funeral at my expil house myself & my exmil were chatting in the lounge about what the funeral would be like etc.

They had wall lights with glass inlets similar style to Tiffany lamps, one in particular was on a wall above a radiator. A glass inlet fell out of the lamp hit the radiator & bounced off, freaking us both out, but strangely the glass didn't smash, it was picked up & we left it for exfil to replace later.

On arriving at exGF house, we gathered in the lounge & my exh commented that the ceiling light (similar style to his parents) had a glass inlet missing, the GF turned around & said to us that one glass inlet had fallen out of it this morning! Myself & exmil froze, coincidence? Who knows, but I'll never forget it.

I got in a taxi more than 6000 miles away from where I lived in England. I had helped the taxi driver's sister move house the previous weekend.

I answered the phone and a chap said " hi wash baskets how are you? "
Didn't recognise the voice so asked who it was. He said it was my brother John. Now I do have a brother called John but it definitely wasn't him!
What's the odds of someone with my brother's name calling someone with his sister's name and getting the wrong number?

Oooh and another one. I lived in Australia as a kid, moved back to the UK and got talking to someone in a pub. She also lived in Australia near me but we never met tho went to the same inter school sports days, swimming pool, shopping centres etc. Her family was very friendly with people I went to school with.

I had lower abdominal pain for months. Bloods all normal. Urine normal. Ultrasounds normal.
I was convinced it was my appendix. The doctors said it couldn't have been because all the tests were normal.
I had a laparoscopy to see if they could see anything. Everything normal. They took my appendix out anyway as I didn't need it and straight after the surgery the pain was gone.
The doctor still doesn't think it was my appendix.

Was on holiday in Turkey. There was a woman in the pool who looked very much like my mother, who had died. We got chatting and I recognized her accent as being from where my mum had lived. She said I'm from x, the same small town. I described where my mums house was, quite new built place. This lady said oh those houses were built where I used to play as a child. I thought maybe she was having me on, but she named the pub at the bottom of the road, I've never come across a pub with that name.