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To ask for your super strange coincidences?

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OJustForgetIt · 26/04/2020 09:30

I started a job at a large firm, the exact same day and in my exact department a girl of the same age started too.

We had the same (not common) surname, same middle names, born on the same year about a week apart, our mothers had the same first and middle names and weirdest of all, our partners at the time had the same surname which again was not common!

We stopped asking each other questions in the end as it was too bizarre!

Anyone else have any examples of coincidences that are just too strange to believe?!

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GameChange123 · 01/05/2020 06:12

About 10 years ago I was sitting in my friends bar waiting for some mates to join us. I was introduced to a new customer who had recently moved to our city from a small Village in wales.

He seemed very nice so we asked him to join us when my mates turned up. Introduced him to my friend Gareth. Turns out they were born in the same hospital in the same day!

I didn't even realise Gareth was actually Welsh as he had been brought up in Plymouth and had lived in London for years so no Welsh accent at all.

stayingaliveisawayoflife · 01/05/2020 06:21

Not as spooky as some of yours but a very recent one. I teach in a primary school and our classes are named after us e.g 3S has a teach called Smith. I was looking at a very local school to us and in the same year I work both classes are named the same as me and my colleagues!!! A bit odd definitely!

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 01/05/2020 07:21

www.thisamericanlife.org/489/no-coincidence-no-story

Above link is to a great podcast, this episode is about coincidences and some of them are mind blowing.

GobbleGob · 01/05/2020 12:19

Oo thanks for the podcast link!

FoulMouthedMotherFigure · 01/05/2020 15:50

My 88-year-old aunty developed dementia, broke a hip, and had to be moved into a nursing home at short notice. As her next-of-kin, all the legwork fell upon me. The hospital social worker gave me the address of a random nursing home with a vacancy in a large town about 15 miles from me and maybe 8 miles from where she'd been living up to them. I went to visit it - it was a wonderful, welcoming place and ideally suited to meet her needs so I asked on the spot for her to be admitted there.

My aunty's next-door-neighbour and close friend for 30-odd years, another octogenarian called Beryl, had asked me to let her know where Aunty would be placed so that she could go and visit her. So I phoned Beryl to tell her about the home. "It's in Town X," I said, "about a mile from the station - you walk over the railway bridge, past the post office, and the third turning on the left is called R Road..."

"Is it at the top of a hill, on your right, with woodland just across the road?" asked Beryl, "And is it in a red-brick building that looks as though it used to be a small hospital?"

It was. When I asked her how she could possibly have known that, she replied, "It was a children's hospital before the War. I spent a year as a patient there in 1938 with rheumatic fever."

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/05/2020 16:00

As a child I became ill on holiday and was admitted to hospital in Country A. I shared a room with another English girl, and our mothers spent the night chatting.

A year later we went on holiday to Country B. On the last day my mother bumped into the other girls mother, who was on holiday in same place, but another hotel.

My brother shared a room in university accommodation with another boy, who turned out to have been my Grandmother's next door neighbour for a few years as a child in a Scottish village.. And there is a photo of the two boys playing together at around 5 years old.

MysteryFrog · 01/05/2020 16:01

Last summer I bumped into a family I knew from my sons school on a beach in wales

A couple of weeks later I bumped into a family I knew from a toddler group I take my other son to in a small seaside town in Cornwall

We live in the Cotswolds and both places were 2-3 hours drive away

foxyknoxy30 · 01/05/2020 16:10

When I used to stay in my flat I used to have numerous wrong number calls asking for 'ruby'.When I went in to give birth to my daughter my midwife asked for my home phone number after giving it to her she mentioned it was awfully like her mother's phone number who of course was called 'ruby'!

Offler · 01/05/2020 16:10

A few years ago, my husband was umming and ahhing over whether to give his old motorbike to a friend to renovate (his hobby), or pay him to do it and then we would keep the bike.

Looking up the details of the registration on the DVLA website, it turned out the bike was first registered on the day I was born.

We decided to keep it. It’s now wonderfully restored to original condition.

Suzuki TS125, 1975 edition.

CoconutsHaveWaterInThem · 01/05/2020 16:13

My birth date is the 7th
my hubbys birth month is the 7th
my daughter's birth date is the 7th in 2017
My other daughter was just 2 hours shy of being born on the 17th but my labour was 7 hours and 47 minutes at 10.17pm
And our last names have 7 digits!
I guess 7 is our lucky number!!!

CoconutsHaveWaterInThem · 01/05/2020 16:14

**letters not digits 🤣

Offler · 01/05/2020 16:15

Restored bike.

To ask for your super strange coincidences?
boredboss · 01/05/2020 16:23

Part time job behind a bar in a rural pub, worked there for years, worked one shift every week with the same girl, used to chat about my then BF a lot, anyway, she'd known his name all along, but one night I mentioned vaguely where he lived and the penny dropped, he was her NDN and had been through childhood.

ChristmasFluff · 01/05/2020 17:00

I lived in a city suburb when I was a student, and one night was followed off the night bus by a man. I didn't want to lead him to my house, so I knocked on the door of the only house that had lights on at gone 1am.

The family were up, took me in, and the Dad and son went out and chased off the man. I had a cup of tea then they took me home.

Many years later I was on the train going from one end of the country to the other, and got chatting to the guy opposite me. The train went through the suburb I'd lived in as a student, and we said, 'I used to live here' and 'yeah, me too'. Turned out we had lived on the same road - and he was the son who had helped chase off the man.

SospanFrangipan · 01/05/2020 17:22

I live in Wales. My FIL lives 50 miles away. He went on holiday to Scotland and met his 'lady friend' in the same hotel. It happened that she not only lived in the same town as us, but I worked with her!

Fischfing · 01/05/2020 18:29

Went on holiday to Italy and sat in a restaurant by Lake Garda when two of my husband‘s colleagues walked past hand in hand. They didn’t see us and we didn’t say anything-relationships between colleagues are forbidden at his workplace!

AvalancheKit · 01/05/2020 19:01

When I was younger I belonged to an aeronautical club. We used to send amateur rockets into space and stuff from a remote Scottish island just for fun. Years later I was holidaying in Corfu when I was confronted by a mugger. I turned tail and was darting through an olive grove when I heard a crashing sound behind me. I went back to the source of the noise only to find said mugger lying flat on the ground knocked unconscious by a meteor. It was a 4 billion year old rock, nothing to do with our rocket. However one of my colleagues in the club had a brother whose girlfriend’s uncle used to holiday in Corfu a lot.

RosesandIris · 03/05/2020 08:12

Bumping

Ifonlywecouldwishuponastar · 03/05/2020 21:19

I moved away from my home town over 10 years ago. I was looking on Facebook to see that an old school friend had also moved to the same place as me. I still can't get over that.

Birdshitbridgegotme · 04/05/2020 02:18

I worked on checkout at a supermarket. I served a young guy who had beautiful colour eyes they really stood out against his dark skin. My bf came to meet me after work and we went to the bus stop and said guy was there. My bf introduced us as it turned out they were friends. We would bump into him from time to time so I got to know him a little. fast forward 6 or so yrs and me and bf had long broken up and I had just met a lovely guy. One day we were talking about a holiday he had been on with his cousin. He showed me a few pics and I immediately recognised those eyes. So I asked is his name * and his answer was yes! We couldn't beleive that I knew his cousin. It was so wierd.

JuneJuly · 04/05/2020 04:17

In my late teens I worked as an au pair in the US for a year. I knocked about with another au pair in the area, who was just working there for the summer & we discovered that, when she worked at a French ski resort the winter before, she had become good friends with a girl who Iived round the corner from me in my (small) home town & who I had gone through school with.

Also...
DH grew up in a house with the same name as the street I grew up on.

Honeybee85 · 04/05/2020 04:26

Years ago I broke up with my ex. It was z'n extremely difficult period and one thing that really helped me was reading books.
During that time I read a novel of which the storyline took place in a certain city somewhere in a Mediterranean country. It's a large city but not really a standard tourist hotspot but the novel made it seem so lovely that I promised myself: after I manage to get a new home and break free completely from my ex, I don't know how, but I will visit that city.
A few months after I got the keys to my new home, a friend of mine invited me to an event along with a new friend of hers that I had not met before. I immediately got along with this girl and a few weeks later she invited me to come over that summer to her second home....in that particular city I had wanted to visit.

Zoflorabore · 04/05/2020 04:47

I got talking to a guy on Twitter. He lives in America. We support the same ( English ) football team and both sets of parents have the same names, as do we.

For example- he is John I am Josie. His parents are John and Josie and my parents are John and Josie. We’ve agreed to meet up at some point in the future, it’s like we were meant to find each other.

mimicracra · 04/05/2020 05:10

I grew up abroad, moved to the UK about 15 years ago. Mum is English.

I worked in a public facing job and got on very well with a particular customer. Was chatting to her one day and mentioned I was going to visit my mum's family. She asked me where they live and I told her. She then told me that's where she had grown up and asked my mum's maiden name. Turns out her family and my mum's family used to be neighbours and she knew exactly who they all were.

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 04/05/2020 07:49

16 years ago when we first moved to the house I still live in, some friends came to visit from a city 100 or so miles away. When they got home and we're getting out of their car a neighbour was in her driveway and asked them if they'd been anywhere nice, they said theyd been visiting friends in our county, their neighbour replied that she had once lived in that county and asked which town, they told her the name of our village, she replied that she had also lived in the same village growing up and asked which road, they told her the name of our road and she said she'd also lived in the same road and asked which number, they told her "number 35" and you guessed it turns out that our house had been her childhood home.
We'd bought the house from the people her parents had sold it to.

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