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To ask for your stories of strange coincidences?

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Pepperwand · 02/07/2019 20:17

Today I stopped at a petrol station and wanted to put £30 of fuel in the car but it blipped over to £30.10. When I went to pay I also bought two lottery tickets for £5 so paid £35.10. As I was putting the tickets in my purse I found two old lottery tickets so got them checked. First one won £30 and the second £5.10!

So, can I ask for your stories of coincidences?

OP posts:
jmh740 · 07/07/2019 11:19

I live In a fairly large town 4 high schools my aunt lives in a large city 200 miles away she wrote to me once (this was about 15 years ago) to say her step daughter was getting married to a boy from my town and was wondering if I knew him erm yes he was in my tutor group at school and is the father of my best friends child.

Barkette · 07/07/2019 11:36

I was on a hen do. We were having late drinks in a beer garden that overlooked a road. It had started to pour with rain and a dog just wandered by. We called him over and he was soaked. By this time it was past midnight. We took him in to the hostel we were staying at overnight. Due to it being a weekend we weren't able to call the warden as the office was closed. The next morning I googled the nearest vets. It was a 40 minute walk away. The rest of the hens went in to the town centre and I said I would walk the dog to the vet to check for a microchip. The lady from the hostel lent me a lead. I was in the middle of a winding estate following the map from my phone when the dog stopped and sat down. He just wouldn't move. I looked at the house we were outside and there was an iron dog figure attached to their shed. I tried to walk again and he just would not have it. So I thought I'm just going to ring the doorbell. A lady answered and the dogs tail was frantically wagging the lady was crying and hugging the dog who I now knew was called Ted. I just couldn't believe it. She asked how I knew where she lived and when I told her I didn't I had just chanced a knock on the door as the dog seemed adamant he didn't want to carry on walking she was speechless. Ted had vanished the day before and her husband was frantically searching for him. She wouldn't let me leave without giving me two bottles of wine and a big hug. It honestly made my day the reunion and possibly the wine Grin

DpWm · 07/07/2019 11:49

I spent one year in Australia at a school there before moving back home to London.
In that year at school there was a horrid boy that stabbed me with a sharp pencil, leaving a permanent tattoo-like spot on my knee.

I went back to Australia on holiday (totally different area) and met a guy at a bar, I talked about my year in Australia at a school, he said "I have a mark left on my knee from a boy who stabbed me with a pencil at that school"
It turned we were stabbed by the same boy from the same school and I showed him my pencil jab mark.
Matching tattoos!

DpWm · 07/07/2019 13:02

HumptyNumptyNooNoo
So the couple just made it up every time?
Freaks.

HemlockStarglimmer · 07/07/2019 13:29

Friend of my father organised a road race. After it was finished everyone went to the pub. Someone came in to say the banner they’d slung between two lampposts had slipped down a bit. So friend went out to sort it but before he got there a bus hit it.
The friend, the bus driver and the policeman who dealt with it all had the same first and last name.

Sophicles · 07/07/2019 13:43

@RelaisBlu
This one is for your daughter, Relais.
The ratio of the binding energy of the atomic nucleus to the energy released in nuclear fission is the same number as the square of the speed of light measured using two factors that we humans invented. One is only true at sea level on this planet, and the other we got through an inaccurate measurement of our polar circumference, so both very specific to us, but in combination the resulting ratio is accurate to within four parts in ten million and applies throughout the entire universe.
How’s that for a coincidence?

LostaraYil · 07/07/2019 14:17

I moved house shortly before DS was born and changed doctors etc. The midwife I had been seeing before the move wasn't informed, and after DS was born I had a voicemail from the midwife sent the minute DS was born, checking if we were ok.

HumptyNumptyNooNoo · 07/07/2019 14:39

Yup

mizzz · 07/07/2019 16:08

We got married in London.

On our anniversary this year I was passing by, so I stopped at the wedding venue.

Another couple were getting married, and signs were everywhere with the names of the happy couple, Laura and Oliver.

Opposite the venue was a really old church, walking past it I noticed a gravestone.

The person had died 200 years ago to the very day, even more weird his name was the same name as the husband of my first girlfriend.

Weird I thought, I walked on a bit more and I noticed an ornate tomb, it belong to a 9month old girl who had died in 1820, her name... Laura Oliver.

I was a bit freaked out and decided to head home!

ThisIsMeOrIsIt · 07/07/2019 17:34

I've remembered another one. My dad grew up in SW London and lived in many different places while I was growing up. Once I'd left home, my parents moved to SE London. I had to move back home due to an accident. Eventually I joined a local orchestra. Two people I met there said I should join another local orchestra so I did. At a concert of this other orchestra my parents came to watch and in the interval one of the musicians, that I'd never spoken to, came up to my dad and said his full name.

Turns out she was the best friend at school of my dad's eldest sister who had moved to another country decades previously. This friend had not only ended up living just a couple of miles from my dad in a completely different part of London, but I'd ended up joining the same orchestra and she'd recognised my dad instantly, despite not having seen him for about 35 years.

My aunt was so happy we got them back in touch with one another!

PrincessC0nsuela · 07/07/2019 18:06

When I was a child living in the Cotswolds our phone number was 3458... this was a looong time ago lol. My Mum's sister lived in the north west and her phone number was 3457... over 200 miles away

Jambalaya76 · 07/07/2019 19:57

My son was born on July 15th and he weighed 7lb 15

Jambalaya76 · 07/07/2019 20:00

My husbands parents phone number is the same as my best friends parents, but the numbers are opposite. For example, husbands parents is 375357 and best friends parents is 357375

Stroan · 07/07/2019 20:09

I worked with a girl once and we realised that we had both rented the same flat in our city - DH and I were the tenants immediately after her.

We then realised that as children, her husband and I had lived in the same place at the same time. It's a bit outing, but something a bit like a very large farm that had maybe 10 houses on it. And hundreds of miles away from the big city we all ended up living in.

skimask · 07/07/2019 20:14

My first gfs first name was the same as my first name and my current gfs last name is the same as my first name

Robstersgirl · 07/07/2019 21:00

When we went to register my DS’s birth the registrars jaw dropped when we told her his name. It was her Grandad’s name in reverse and the surname was only one letter different too; example (not real names) - John David Paul Jones our sons name was Paul David John Bones. He was a famous motorcyclist. Was so strange!

mangobutter · 07/07/2019 22:42

My DH has the same name as my dad. My dad's partner has the same name as me. Her dad also had the same name as my dad/my DH.

We didn't name our DS after my dad Wink

Barkette · 07/07/2019 23:13

Oh another one. My now best friend and I both moved from our home towns (opposite ends of the country) to a small village on the same day of the same year. We had both moved for love and met our partners online. We both lived there for 18 months and then moved to the same town in the same month (we hadn’t met yet) we both went to a support group and I thought I recognised her. It turns out I worked with her fiancé when I very first moved. Since then we have become firm friends and even like sisters! We now work together too!! It was like it was meant to be!

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 08/07/2019 07:53

When I first moved to my current address 15 yrs ago - some good friends who live 200 miles away came to visit for the weekend.
They returned home and were getting out of their car and got chatting to their NDN who asked them if they'd been anywhere nice.
"Yes" they said "we've been visiting friends in Hertfordshire"
"Oh" she said "I used to live in Herts, whereabouts?"
They said the name of my village.
"Ooh" she said "I used to live in that village - what road?"
They said the name of my road.
"Oh I used to live in that road" she said "What number?"
They said the number of my house and it turned out my new house had been her family home where she had grown up. We had bought it from the people her family had sold it to.

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 08/07/2019 08:22

When I was 19 I went away to a Greek island with a bunch of girls I'd been at school with.
There was one girl, part of our group, who couldn't make it due to having to attend compulsory training for the new career she'd just started (in a completely different city to where we'd all been at school together).
While the bunch of us from school were away in Greece we made friends with a couple of other girls who worked together and hung out with us and came out with us in the eves.
When back from holiday I got a phone call from the girl who hadn't been able to make the Greek holiday due to work training, to say she had been chatting to two girls she'd just started working with.
They'd shown her their holiday snaps and me and the group from school who'd all been on the Greek holiday together were in all their photos.
Turned out her two new colleagues were the two girls we'd met on the holiday she hadn't been able to come on.

Ablemaybel · 08/07/2019 13:30

I share the same birthday as DH, same year also.
He's half hour older than me.
We've been together years, friends and family members say we were meant to be together.

kelper · 08/07/2019 13:56

DH and I were on holiday in Dubai, staying in a hotel for one night then going to stay with family.
Going to breakfast, lift door opens and inside is someone DH worked with in Singapore about 3 years previously!
Where-ever we go in the world, we always find at least one person DH knows, it's so funny!

SavageBeauty73 · 08/07/2019 14:12

I love this thread!

My best friends mum has the same name and birthday as my mum and we were born in the same hospital 2 days apart.....

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine · 09/07/2019 00:19

I was working in a social club as a barmaid, when someone wanted served in the lounge area. As I went to serve them, 3 random lads walked past the windows, number 3 looked in, smiled then the 2 others returned to see what he was looking at. They then all came in for a drink and started chatting. Guy number 3 asked for my phone number. I refused but carried on chatting. He then kept returning to the club coincidentally only when I was working. He asked to take me out on date, and got chatting. He asked what school I'd gone to, and when I told him, he said 'well why go to x school when you live in y town'. I was brought up in y town, and lived just off z road. Turned out he lived the street diagonally across from where I was brought up and where my parents still lived, his sister was in my sisters class at school, we both went to the same youth club at the same time and knew the same set of people/had same set of friends, went to the same school for a short period of time, yet don't remember each other or remember our paths ever crossing as children/teenagers. We've just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary on Sunday!!

My car clocked 100000 miles last week, the 'trip' calculator underneath was my date of birth as it clocked

I was born exactly 7 days before my dads birthday eg, mine is 3rd and dads is 10th of same month. Our son was born exactly 7 days before his dads birthday 11th & 18th of same month. My sister gave birth to her son on 10th April, and her husbands birthday is 17th April.

There will be more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine · 09/07/2019 00:21

Another one - we got married on 07/07/07. I found out I was pregnant and was due on 08/08/08 although he didn't arrive on due date.