To ask for your stories of strange coincidences?

[Pepperwand]

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?

Also, my new bf and I gave each other the same present on Valentine's day this year.

Was once on holiday in Tunisia. Couple at the bar had regional accents - the same region that my DP is from. Each section of this region has a minor variation in accent so DP and I play “guess which bit of X region that person is from”. And we see how close DP guesses just from their accent.

So I say “ok, where is that lady from ?” DP listens to her and says “Smallville.... I think.....”
I get talking to the lady and say “you’re from X region, whereabouts?”
“Smallville” she says.....

We get talking and DP comes over..... “they are from Smallville!”

“Oh” says the lady “but we used to live in Bigtown area but moved 35 years ago”

(DP is from Bigtown)

Turns out they used to be NDN with DP & Family 35 years ago. The lady remembered his DM and DP remembered playing on BMXs with their DD

Weird.

Many years ago, in towns 50 miles apart, and no prior planning or discussion my late mother and I bought identical wallpaper with the intention of using it in the same place in our respective houses

A man who sits next to me at work and started the job at the same time as me, his last job was the same position I had at the company I had worked for before last. THEN he left that job to take the
role at the company I was at prior to this one. So we swapped jobs and then ended up working together.

We left each company for the exact same reasons although that bit is not surprising

When I was younger I was on holiday in Austria with my dad (who's Australian). Met another chap from Australia - turns out he was dad's childhood friend from fifty odd years ago. They'd grown up in the same street.

Ooh I love these, haven't RTFT just yet but let's see how many of mine i can remember:

The oddest one, sometime when I was in secondary school I realised it had been over a year since I had spoken to my childhood best friend and my mum suggested doing something with her. I rang her up but it was engaged. Rang back a bit later and she said how weird it was that I was calling as she'd tried calling me that day but it was engaged: we'd both tried to phone each other for the first time in ages, on the exact same day, at the exact same time.

My ex and I met in college, it was only months later we worked out that his mum ran the after school club I used to go to and although he was from a different school, she would bring him with her- we had probably played together at some point as kids!

I had extensions on my wedding, and decided to have them taken out about 4 months later and have my hair cut quite a bit shorter. Around the same time my mum was shopping where she lives, miles away, and had the sudden urge to get her hair cut(she always prebooks hair appointments). She rang me when she saw my shorter hair on facebook as she was very surprised at the coincidence. Same sort of thing with my dad, when I lived at home there were two occasions when I had a song in my head all day which I hadn't listened to, which turned out to be what my dad had been listening to on the way to work.

A more recent one- me and DH are gamers and I used to work in a game shop so had many years of free xbox live membership stacked up which we share. I knew it was expiring some time this summer, not a big deal as we are expecting a baby and doubt we'll have time to play. Went to check exactly when it runs out- it's our DD's due date!

DH's sister has the same birthday as his dad.

This is only a maybe, but I'm pretty sure we saw a couple last holiday, that were on our previous holiday (following year, different month and location), but as I have some degree of face blindness it probably wasn't them!

My parents have relatives who are married without having met through them.

I also get followed by the numbers 58 and 13 (which is also 5+8)!

I don't believe in anything woo but that makes these things all the more fascinating for me!

My Irish friend went on holiday to Australia, had one night in Sydney, and in a crowded bar ended up drinking with my sister. Who doesn't live in Sydney, was also just there for a night.

I thought of two more:
We moved to our second house around the time our brother was born. It was only in the process of exchanging contracts etc. my parents found out the sellers were the aunt and uncle of a friend I'd known since playgroup, he was also in the same nursery class and at the same childminders as me.

And not a big one but very recent. DH got a massage recently and his very chatty therapist grew up in the same place as him, which is nowhere near where we now live or the hotel we were staying at.

*my brother not our although I guess it would make sense if I had more than one sibling!

I walk everywhere, for the exercise.

I was walking home from town (5 mile round trip) when the sole of my right shoe literally fell off. Timberland-type calf highboots, with a small heel.

I was half a mile from town, just on the outskirts where there's a Sainsburys. I thought I'll have to buy myself some cheap trainers if they have any.

I walked 50 feet and saw a Timpsons, as a stand alone cabin, in the car park of Sainsburys. NEVER noticed it before.

"How long have you been here?" I asked the guy serving.
"Today!" he said. "Brand New."

I couldn't believe my luck! I gave him my boot (with detached sole section) and told him it had just come off. He nailed it on, good as new, laughed and wouldn't take any money.

I know it's not a big story but I still remember how lucky I felt!

@saffy1234 I remember that day and the flooding very well!

Me too the whole of sanford park was afloat!! @SkinThing

@saffy1234 I'd forgotten all about that! I was driving floating down Shurdington Road just before they closed it...

We went on holiday abroad 23 years ago (first trip abroad as a family) and met a couple with two dc who had the same names as ours (that's not the only coincidence!)
Anyway we spent most of the fortnight hanging out with them at the pool, kids played together, had a lovely time.
Twenty years later, MIL/FIL went abroad. Came home and told us they'd met this lovely couple on holiday and spent a week enjoying their company, and wasn't it a coincidence that they had grandchildren with the same names as our dc.
Turned out they were the parents of the couple that we'd met 20 years earlier.

Oh one more, I can't stop! MIL was looking up the origins of our family surname (I took DH's name). It's a variation of another name but one letter has been omitted. The first recorded usage of that name was a couple with the same first names as me and DH!

I met a man while traveling in Bangkok, we got chatting and I realised he worked in the next town from me (he lived half an hour In the opposite direction so no surprise we had never met). We even knew some people in common and had booked onto the exact same trip. Both of us had tried to cancel/move our trips due to the flooding in Bangkok at the time but had been unable to do so, so decided to risk it. 8 years later we are married with a baby on the way! I doubt we would have looked twice at each other if we met in the uk, it's funny how circumstances brought us together :)

My mum, Dad and I have birthdays on the 27th of a month. Then we have my Nanny’s on the 15th, youngest brother on 16th, next Brother on the 17th and my partner on the 18th.

Our very elderly cat died on 18th January 2012.
Five months later we picked up a new kitten who had been born on 18th January 2012.

On our wedding day DH and I got each other a card and gift. We bought each other the exact same card

@pearpickingporky84

Omg at first I was like what fucking car does she drive to total over a grand in diesel.... then I clicked on.

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Doing family trees for both myself and DH and found:

1. His Paternal Great Grandmother and my Paternal Great Grandmother share the name forename and surnames.
2. His Maternal Grandmother and my Maternal Grandmother share the same birthday.
3. His Paternal Grandfather and my Paternal Grandfather both died on the same date but years apart. My sister was then born on this date a year after Grandad died.
4. One of my Maternal Great Grandfathers died on the same day as his mother but 60 years later. (He never knew she was his mother, he thought she was his sis and he was brought up by his grandparents).

Also my ex boyfriend's dad died of a stroke a few years back. His mum said at the funeral that she would like her funeral to be exactly the same as her husband's. A year later on the 1st anniversary of her husband's death, ex's mother died of a stroke. They had funeral on the same date a year later and just did everything the same as at his father's funeral.

A few years back I went to visit my dad's cousin in Wales and felt very comfortable in her kitchen as it was exactly the same as ours.

I booked a Ryanair flight for DH and myself. Before the flight Ryanair rang me and said I had double booked. I knew I hadn't. Ryanair then gave more details and it turned out that another couple with the same names as us were booked on the same flight.

Every time DH and I have been to the USA and are travelling in the sticks in different counties or even different states, we have seen two dogs in a truck which are the same english breed and colours as ours.

I have never had a parking problem, found a shopping list nor made a chicken last longer than two meals. Never, ever. In the whole of my life. I think that’s a remarkable 7,000,000,000 to 1 chance.