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To think everyone has at least one weird coincidence story

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hazelnutpraline · 13/09/2021 15:59

These are mine:

I was showing DP some old photos from before I met him and came across one of my best friend dancing at a (big, thousands of people) festival. We both noticed at the same time that the only other person in the picture, dancing behind her, was HIS best friend. We hadn't met at that point, it was several years before we did, and none of us lived in the same part of the country.

Years ago when I smoked, my friend and I were sitting on the steps of a nightclub wanting a cigarette but neither of us had a lighter. We asked a man walking towards us for a light but he just gave us a dirty look and ignored us. As he walked past where we were sitting, a lighter fell out of his back pocket without him noticing, right in front of our feet.

Please tell me yours!

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2pinkginsplease · 13/09/2021 18:47

Dh and I were away for the weekend about 60 miles from home, we met a couple in a bar and spoke to them all evening, the next weekend I went out with friends from college and posted a photo on Facebook tagging them in it and it turned out that the couple from the weekend away were her best friends! 😂 small world!

Dd has started a new job and asked if I could remember who I worked with on my first day of my last job 16 years ago and I said I could. The guy was called Ian and the girl was Michelle. Went to a pub that night with friends and bumped into Ian! So freaky not seen him For many many years.

SunshineCake · 13/09/2021 18:48

@TracyLords

Walking along the street and my dog pulls the lead to go and see a woman in her garden. I’m mortified but the woman gives her a wee treat. My dog starts moving stones with her paw and the woman says “oh my goodness”. My dog had just dug up her ring that had been missing since the 90s. My dog gets a treat every time we pass this lady’s house now
This is my favourite.

I have a retriever and I have been in hospital for a week, home for two days and she isn't coming to see me much so I'm missing her Sad.

surreymum89 · 13/09/2021 18:50

@namechangememe I don't get this ? She was staying over for your wedding and saw the date on the t-shirt but you said she had worn it hundreds of times before and never noticed but why would she notice a date years back before your wedding happened , it wouldn't be a notable date would it?

SunshineCake · 13/09/2021 18:53

[quote surreymum89]@namechangememe I don't get this ? She was staying over for your wedding and saw the date on the t-shirt but you said she had worn it hundreds of times before and never noticed but why would she notice a date years back before your wedding happened , it wouldn't be a notable date would it? [/quote]
And why was the date there when that day hadn't happened yet ?

Tangledtresses · 13/09/2021 18:56

I have two photos of my son when he was very young in random places ..... right outside 2 houses we have lived in since 😀

Marmite27 · 13/09/2021 19:16

@Brollypackedforscottishholiday

My dil's dm bought her a private plate. She crashed her car and it was past saving. Her dm bought her a new car... New ref was 1 digit away from her private plate ref!!
I read that as private plane initially and thought your story was in a completely different league for a moment Grin
MaybeAMoaner · 13/09/2021 19:23

My mothers house was built in 1890 and has a big old loft that was too hard to access.
After 38 years of living there we got on the loft and found an old book of which written in the first page was an address.

The address was my aunties new house 18 miles away.

MaybeAMoaner · 13/09/2021 19:26

I also have another which only happened on Sunday.

Driving out of our driveway, 3 very old vintage trucks drove by one after another.
My DH said “wow they were amazing, there must be a vintage truck show on somewhere”

We then carried on and drove to a country restaurant for our Sunday dinner, 25 miles from our city in a really random location.
In the car park were about 15 vintage trucks and not long after arrived the 3 that passed our house.

Zeal · 13/09/2021 19:30

My parents were pretty poor. We lived in a farm cottage and had not much money for furniture and odd Wellington boots. After coming home from a walk in which we got drenched by rain, I slept by the fire and dreamed of finding piles of silver coins in a gateway to a park near my uncle’s town house. He was comparatively well off so I associated the money with him.

Roll forward about a week later and it’s end of school holidays and I’m riding my little bike down a leafy lane. In a gateway someone has dumped a load of mucky magazines, bags and second hand clothes. I look closer and spot the white end of a rolled up bunch of old brown £10 notes, secured with an elastic band. In total there was £221. We took it to the local police station and handed it in. A few weeks later the police drove out to our cottage and said nobody has claimed it so it’s mine. I gave them £10 to put in the police charity, kept £11 for toys and gave my parents £200. This was 1973 and we felt rich.

PolytheneRam · 13/09/2021 19:31

I was a parent governor at my daughter's infant school about ten years ago. Everyone on the board was given (well, loaned) an iPad in order to fulfill the role. The iPad was set up with a security code before it was given to me, and unbelievably the code was the same four digit code as my debit card pin at the time.

WhyMeLord · 13/09/2021 19:38

Years ago I started a new job with a really long commute, took me an hour and half to drive there every day, I do quite a specialist job and joined a department of just 3 people. Turned out the person who did the job before me was the woman I'd just bought my house off, 50 miles away in a different city. I was living her life but 3 months behind.

LouLou789 · 13/09/2021 19:57

My DH and I met when we were 49 and 43. We are both from Yorkshire but it’s a huge county. Discovered we were both at the same Leo Sayer concert in a distant seaside town in 1974, thirty years before we met. How weird to think of the love of my life sitting in that audience! We probably even saw each other in the queue.

LouLou789 · 13/09/2021 20:06

And another one. About 10 years ago we had booked a holiday and the balance payment of £980 was due shortly. In the previous week my DH was made redundant and funding was not renewed for my biggest freelance contract. We then got a letter from the Child Support Agency saying they were pursuing my ex DH for some overdue Child Support from years ago and had received some money they would be sending us shortly. It was £980.63,

Saintsofsaint · 13/09/2021 20:19

At 21 I went traveling and bumped into this one guy in three countries (Oz, NZ and Fiji). When I moved back to London I lived next door to someone I'd met in a backpacker in Oz.

Jourdain11 · 13/09/2021 20:46

My mum's best friend at school (in France) was a girl called Sarah. They were friends all the way through school and my mum talked about "Sarah" a lot when we were growing up (apparently she was all the teachers' favourite and the boys thought she was very pretty!). After school they drifted apart and Sarah married an English guy and moved to London.

Years later, I moved to London to study and during my PhD I was working on a project with a girl from Cambridge, one year older than me. Her parents lived in London and I often used to give her a lift if we had been working in Cambridge. I met both her parents a few times. We are still friends and see each other every so often.

About 6 months ago, my mum ran into another old friend and they ended up talking about Sarah. The conversation went on, "... and her daughter so and so works in this field, the same as your daughter, what a coincidence." And at this point, my mum realised that my friend, who I'd mentioned on quite a few occasions to her, was the daughter of her schoolfriend!

Meggie2008 · 13/09/2021 20:55

I got a new bank card and when they sent the letter with the pin code on it, I was very surprised to see that it was my gran and aunts house numbers. The same combination used to be the keysafe code to my grans house before she died. Odd coincidence but easy to remember for me 😂

Granllanog · 13/09/2021 20:59

Out with dh to buy my engagement ring...........as we were paying for it my ex dh walks in with OW to look at engagement rings. We both lived 25 miles from the jewellers in opposite directions.

Jellykat · 13/09/2021 21:05

About 3 years ago a new lady came to work at the same shop as me (only 3 employees in a little village in rural Wales).

My birthday is the same day as her mums, her birthday is the same day as my brothers, and we were both at the same Art college over 160 miles away, at the same time.. 33 years ago!

LMV1 · 13/09/2021 21:09

I had a lease car which I loved, unfortunately it came to the end of lease so I had to return it in 2018, the car was collected from my house (south east) to be taken to auction in Nottingham. A year later my husband, toddler & I were travelling to Cornwall for a holiday as we were driving off the motorway to stop at a service station in Exeter we were talking about cars and I said how much I missed our old car and i wish I could’ve bought it at the end of lease etc etc, when we pulled into the parking space I looked at the car in front of us and sure enough it was my old car!

Another weird coincidence- my dad worked in the police and was working on a job at Heathrow, he went into the security office at the airport and got talking to the security guard who was a HUGE West Ham FC fan, the office was filled with memorabilia, including a photo of the first ever team when it was known as Thames Iron Works. My dad noticed the photo and said that his great great grandad played in that team and pointed to him in the picture to which the guard replied mine too and pointed to his g.g. Grandad! Small world…

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 13/09/2021 21:20

My daughter was flower girl at her godparents wedding. They got married on godmothers parents wedding anniversary which was also the birthday of their flower girl.

PhoneBoothMadness · 13/09/2021 21:23

I've changed user name for this as it's so specific. And insane.

When I was 19 I worked at an inn / restaurant in a very rural area. I lived in the staff accommodation, which was an old farmhouse a few miles down the road from the inn, and I would walk home after my shift.

One afternoon, I was walking home after finishing work for the day, and a phone booth that was on my route started ringing just as I reached it. This was a year or two before mobiles were ubiquitous, and I thought I'd better answer it in case it was someone in an emergency, or trying to get hold of someone nearby, though there was no-one around.

I picked up and said hello, and was taken aback to hear my friend on the other end immediately start yakking away about the night out we had planned for later. I interrupted her and asked how she knew I was passing the phone booth at that moment (it was the middle of nowhere and she was 15 miles away in the town).

Well, she absolutely lost her shit. She hadn't meant to call the phone booth at all, and she had no idea what my shift time even was, or that I wasn't at home. She had meant to call me, but had unwittingly misdialled, and happened to call the phone booth at the very second I was walking past.

Greydove28 · 13/09/2021 21:32

@PhoneBoothMadness

I've changed user name for this as it's so specific. And insane.

When I was 19 I worked at an inn / restaurant in a very rural area. I lived in the staff accommodation, which was an old farmhouse a few miles down the road from the inn, and I would walk home after my shift.

One afternoon, I was walking home after finishing work for the day, and a phone booth that was on my route started ringing just as I reached it. This was a year or two before mobiles were ubiquitous, and I thought I'd better answer it in case it was someone in an emergency, or trying to get hold of someone nearby, though there was no-one around.

I picked up and said hello, and was taken aback to hear my friend on the other end immediately start yakking away about the night out we had planned for later. I interrupted her and asked how she knew I was passing the phone booth at that moment (it was the middle of nowhere and she was 15 miles away in the town).

Well, she absolutely lost her shit. She hadn't meant to call the phone booth at all, and she had no idea what my shift time even was, or that I wasn't at home. She had meant to call me, but had unwittingly misdialled, and happened to call the phone booth at the very second I was walking past.

That is spooky!
QuitMoaning · 13/09/2021 21:41

I rented a room in a house share in London and was talking to one of the other sharers. She used to live in one of the Southern Counties and her best friend at primary school (Sarah) used to stay with her grandparents in the school holidays in a different county.
Sarah’s grandparents lived in my village so I was her best friend in the school holidays.

SpareChangePlease · 13/09/2021 21:48

The pin I always choose for my bank card is 2044.
Four years later I receive a new bank card through the post, followed by a new pin a few days later. I scratched the paper to reveal my new pin…it was 2044 Shock

OldTinHat · 13/09/2021 21:51

Had a friend through a shared interest but we lived in different counties. Lost touch as you do and hadn't seen or heard from her in about 17yrs. I then moved to her county, looked her up as I thought it would be great to catch up. We met for coffee and she asked where I'd moved to. Turns out I'd bought the house from her daughter. Also the daughter had bought the house 20yrs before which is when I bought the house I had just sold.