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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?

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Pondock · 03/07/2019 01:04

Blooming predictive text....from Thailand to Laos.

pinkoneblueone · 03/07/2019 01:10

@PalJoey wowzers 😬

Iwasatglastothisyear · 03/07/2019 01:24

I became really good friends with a lady who worked at my daughter’s nursery. We’d meet up in town every weekend for coffee. One day she couldn’t make it as she was waiting for a plumber to turn up, so she told me to go to her house instead and meet her family.
Her husband was my ex that I’d been with for 3 years when I lived 120 miles away and he’d started being calling himself Jim instead of James.

wildbhoysmama · 03/07/2019 01:35

In my early 20s I had just arrived in Melbourne after travelling in SE Asia and found a job in a pub. During my first shift a guy in his late 30s came in, looked at me for ages and upon hearing my Scottish accent said in a similar accent ' You're definitely a ( insert my surname) " . I was completely taken aback - how on Earth could he know me? It turns out he knew my brother ( much older than me) and they'd gone to school together. The last time he'd seen me I was around age 5 dancing in the garden as he and my brother, then teens, had been meeting to.go off and play football.

He recognised me not as we look particularly alike but we are known to have similar voices and mannerisms. Mad.

Annonymiss123 · 03/07/2019 01:54

My DD and I were at a funeral recently. In the graveyard we noticed that the grave we were standing at belonged to someone who was born on the same day as me and died on the day my DD was born. It gave us chills!

Bowerbird5 · 03/07/2019 02:28

My mum was on a train to London before going to Australia. On the journey a couple sat down opposite her. They got chatting and it turned out they were Polish and lived in Windsor.Our family had lived in Windsor for two years nearly thirty years before. My mum told them this and that she had been friends with a Polish couple who lived in the lodge cottage. They were friends with them!

Another. I used to love playing Happy Families card game when I was little. I particularly love to collect one family because I liked the job. I married someone with the surname. I’m not actually that keen on the name but my daughter has that occupation too.

Lanurk · 03/07/2019 02:48

First serious “adult bf” when I was 18’s mum is Linda. Second bf mum also Linda. EH mum is linda and dp’s mum is of course, Linda.

Also, after breaking up with #2 I dated 2 guys with the same first/ last name as him. Totally unintentional, met both at speed dating events. 2nd had the same middle name too. Never dated someone with that name since 😆

salsmum · 03/07/2019 03:28

Nearly 30 years ago when my daughter was born prem with cerebral palsy I went to the baby clinic one day and the health visitor told me about another mum who's DD was born a day after mine with undiagnosed medical issues resulting in severe disabilities too. HV asked if she'd mind if she passed on my number so we could support one another ( she was finding The diagnosis particularly hard to accept. I agreed to meet and over a chat and cuppa I asked her where she lived before moving to our newish area? I was amazed when she had purchased the same house that we viewed about 5 miles away ( they reduced on selling price for her) 😉 we became very good friends after that.

salsmum · 03/07/2019 03:35

Years ago my late stepdad was playing football on the beach when he lost his glasses ( very shallow water) the next day he was playing football ( tide out this time and my DB kicked the ball as SD bent to pick up the ball where it had landed his glasses were sticking out of the wet sand.

ispepsiok · 03/07/2019 03:43

I grew up in a small village but moved to Australia when I met my husband, my cousin met and married a man from the next village.

I was recently travelling into Sydney by train when I got chatting to a lady, roughly 80 years old. She asked about my accent and I told her where I was from, she was from the next village to where I grew up, and was actually my cousins husbands estranged aunt who the family hadn't heard off in around 60 years! When I mentioned her to my cousin I didn't know she was estranged so didn't think to ask for contact details, but the family are happy to know she's still alive and have been looking for her now they knew where she is.

Aqua25 · 03/07/2019 04:27

Being asain my parents set me up on a blind date 17 years ago, it turns out I used to go and play on his street as a child, we were both at numerous parties at the same time but never met and when we agreed to meet I found we had the same car in the same colour, I just happened to park directly opposite him in a car park with tons of available spaces oh and we are both left handed

HermioneMakepeace · 03/07/2019 04:52

I lived in London for 5 years and had a landline number. Years later I moved to Riyadh in KSA and my landline number was exactly the same as my one in London! Obviously the area code was different, but the number was the same.

buttonup26 · 03/07/2019 06:05

On my wedding day I was getting ready and listening to the radio. A song came on which is totally relevant to my DH, (it mentions his name) . I have never heard it played on radio and it is totally obscure. I haven't heard it since. The next song played straight after it was our first dance song. We have been married 30 years and I like to think it was a good sign.

buttonup26 · 03/07/2019 06:15

Thought of another one. I was researching my family tree. I was trying to find my Great great Great Grandfather. Went on a forum and there was a lady searching for the same person. I messaged her to find family connection and found that she was a very distant cousin who lived in Canada. We met up when she came for a holiday. We are the same age, height, colouring etc and have same hobbies and we look identical. We are now really close friends and have a lot in common. We could be twins.

flumpybear · 03/07/2019 06:20

Got a few - will write different posts

Small group of friends, me and my best friend went to a town in Spain on holiday, at the airport shenputnon her Facebook 'off to see Flumpy in Cabo Roig' and our other friend who lives half the country away who we love to bits but rarely see was on her way to the same place, 10
Mins in a taxi away

Number3or4 · 03/07/2019 06:21

Four generations on my mother's side the grandmothers died on the same day. For example, dm paternal grandmother died early in the moring and the other early afternoon on the same day. For diffrent reasons unrelated to each other. She had her mother to help navigate through the emotions as the same thing happened to her.
That is now finished, thank God as my paternal grandmother died few years ago and my maternal grandmother is still alive. Unless it happens to one of my cousins.

flumpybear · 03/07/2019 06:27

Bit of a woo one here

My grandmother (mums mum ) died and the day of her funeral was the most almighty strom and lightening hit our tv Ariel causing a little bit of damage but could have been loads worse. My mum said it was grandmother saying goodbye and said for many years after that that when she died she'd send me a thunder and lightening storm to say goodbye. Over 30 years later, having mentioned it about 100 times that she'd always make me this storm she died, by then she lived on the other side of the world - 20 minutes ish after she died ... big supercell storm across the U.K. (28 June 2012) that had been brewing for days - she'd been very sick for about a month by the time she died. I couldn't visitnher as I had a 3 month old baby, a 3 year old with a broken leg plus she was essentially in a coma anyway so wouldn't have done much - I honestly think this is more than a
Coincidence

flumpybear · 03/07/2019 06:29

I worked in a hotel in London, I was the PA at the time to the boss (changed career since then!) and I had a phone call. We were talking and he was asking about our conference and banqueting so I was chatting about what I knew as I couldn't find anybody at their desk to help him and when I took his details so they could call h back it turned out to be my old boyfriend from school (about 4 years previous as I was very young)

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/07/2019 06:50

Brother shared a room with another student at university. Friend noticed his train tickets for small town in Scotland (where our grandmother lived) and mentioned he had lived there as a child. After a bit more discussion... Turned out his friend had lived next door to our grandmother and the boys had played together as toddlers a couple of times.

Animum2 · 03/07/2019 06:57

Iwasatglastothisyear

How did u feel about meeting your ex again?

cheesenpickles · 03/07/2019 07:06

My husband and I went to Portugal with our kids on a family holiday and my mum's cousin - who I hadn't seen for 20 years - was over from Canada doing a cycling tour of Europe at the same time. We were in a restaurant in a Portuguese resort and he and his wife walked in. We ended up having a lovely day and lunch with them. It was just so weird and I don't post about going abroad on social media (for obvious reasons) so there was no way they could have known.

Morgan12 · 03/07/2019 07:28

More of a woo story I suppose but I know a girl who died aged 16 in a very freak accident. Horrible.

A few weeks beforehand she told her mum, randomly it seems, that if she died she would send her a sign to say she was ok.

This story was told to me by her mum and she didn't tell me what the sign was. But she got the sign a week after she had died.

I've actually heard a few stories like this about different people, almost as though they know subconsciously that they might die. It's a strange one.

Morgan12 · 03/07/2019 07:28

Might die soon that should say. We all die of course.

Kitkatbar2018 · 03/07/2019 07:30

I am always blown by this story it’s not mine but my colleague. We worked in the field of supporting victims of crime. She was telling me when she first started (in the 80s) she supported a guy who had been stabbed, they became friends over time. One day invites him over for dinner and meets her DH who he already knows and is friends with because he just happened to be the surgeon that operated on him and they got to know each other that way?! Neither of them knew that they knew this guy or supported / treated him until that dinner -(power of confidentiality!)

sarahlux · 03/07/2019 07:34

My best friends mum was diagnosed with the exact same cancer the same day as my mum. Just one year apart.

They left hospital on the same date.
Both were readmitted on the same.
Both passed on the same date
The funeral was on the same date and started at the same time.

The only difference was one was 2017 and one 2018.