To think everyone has at least one weird coincidence story

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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!

I am not sure if this is coincidence but something really bizarre. I was invited to a party at an unusual location, somewhere I can guarantee I had never been before in my life. Before I went, I went to the venue website to have a nosy as to what it was like. In one of the marketing pictures, from a previous event at this venue, I recognised myself from behind. It was absolutely me, my hair - the outfit I was wearing. I showed my DH and he agreed it was definitely me. I had never been to this place before. So weird.

You've got a doppelgänger, AfricanPaintedDog. So have I - one of my DBs was showing me photos of his son's christening party, including one which for a moment I could have sworn was me - except I hadn't been able to go due to illness, and while the dress was a style and colour I'd have chosen, it wasn't actually mine. It was actually the girlfriend of one of his pals.

@godmum56

Not really a coincidence but a good story. I am a retired occuaptional therapist. Its not a well understood professtion now but in the mid 70's it was even less known. My husband had a very good friend who used to stay with him and his Mum before we married. I got to know him well and we all got on well. They were both in the merchant navy and didn't live near so we sort of met at irregular intervals. A few years later he met and married a girl who was also an Occupational Therapist and we were invited to the wedding but didn't get to chat a lot. shortly after this they moved close to where we were living so we went over for dinner. We did the "What a coincidence we are both OT's thing" then she said what she loved about her DH was that when they met and she said what she did, he immediately knew chapter and verse about what she did....first bloke who ever had......then the penny dropped :) My one and only sucessful matchmake and I didn't even know about it :)

As an OT, I love this one!

@ErrolTheDragon I had thought doppelgänger as well. But I studied the photo and it is definitely me, the weird way my hair sits from the back, my posture, the jumper, jeans and shoes I was wearing - all mine. It felt like that scene from the Shining, where you see Jack in the photos on the wall from parties in the past. Freaked me out.

We never bumped into each other and came home at different times.
I was in before my sister and I was proudly showing my mum my black platform boots from c&a when my sister came in…..she had bought the exact same boots And the label stitched inside the boot said “sisters”.

Not sure this is just coincidence. My sister and I often turn up in the same outfit, even though we’ve never been shopping together and live at opposite ends of the country!

Turned out her legal secretary was none other than… THE EX FIANCÉ. It still makes me smile when I think about it

This would make a good movie plot. In fact, I think I’ve watched similar where the ex becomes someone’s friend unknowingly but then never tells them when it becomes known. It’s going to bug me now til I know what it is!

@WhenPushComesToShove

I ordered a book online about evacuated children during World War II. I was interested to read the story as my beloved (late) Mum had also been an evacuee sent from London to a small farming hamlet in the countryside. As I read I realised one of the children she mentions (4 times) was my Mum and there were also 3 photos of her as a child which I had never seen before. What were the chances?

That's wonderful!

OMG this thread is fab!

I do have a few, but this one is very recent and really freaks me out! Just a few months ago, me and DH were going to a big town some 22 miles from us for a shopping trip. We live in a small village, and to get the the main A road (that will get us there,) we have to go 3 miles across the country lanes we live in, to get to a crossroads where you turn left or right onto the main A road, (or go straight across into more country lanes to other villages...) Takes us 6-7 minutes to get there.

We were just leaving when I said, 'Oh, I just need to get my bottle of water out of the fridge, sorry hang on...' DH said 'hurry up then!' I delayed us by 2 minutes.

So we departed 2 minutes later. By the time we got to the crossroads (where we would turn right onto the A road to go to this large town,) there had been a terrible accident.

Just a couple of minutes before we got there, a huge 40 ton articulated lorry, had smashed into a car that had pulled out to turn right onto the A road. The car has seemingly misjudged the lorry's speed, and how close it was, and long story short, 2 people in the car died.

It freaked me out, because if I had not gone back into the house for my bottle of water, we would have been 2 minutes further ahead, and that could have very easily have been us. I said to DH, 'OMG, if I had not gone back for that water...' He looked as white as a ghost and just nodded......

My husband has a near miss story similar to the one above....
He was on a stag do abroad - Germany I think. They all got up to leave the bar they were in. The majority of the group left. One of them was taking a bit longer to get his stuff together etc and DH and one other waited for him. 30 seconds after the first group left, a car smashed into the pub doorway at speed. The car was completely wrecked and the door and wall smashed. DH and the other 2 stragglers were just heading towards the door at the time. A few seconds quicker and they could have been killed.

I have a date that things just seem to happen on. The following have all happened on the same date:

Miscarriage
Baby after MMC due date
Divorce finalised
Engaged
Ex's baby was born
My brother had his stag night (clutching at straws a bit with this one and only realised when I scrolled back my camera to check if anything was on that date from this year)

I never really tie the events to the date until after the fact.

I was born on the exact day my DH’s father died ( his father died when DH was a toddler) I didn’t know until we had been together for 12 mnths.

@CrowleysHouseplant

My husband has a near miss story similar to the one above.... He was on a stag do abroad - Germany I think. They all got up to leave the bar they were in. The majority of the group left. One of them was taking a bit longer to get his stuff together etc and DH and one other waited for him. 30 seconds after the first group left, a car smashed into the pub doorway at speed. The car was completely wrecked and the door and wall smashed. DH and the other 2 stragglers were just heading towards the door at the time. A few seconds quicker and they could have been killed.

Creep innit!

I'm sure you can guess what the next song chosen was. And whilst I realise this isn't that big a deal compared to some of the crazier coincidences in life, I was still very shocked.

This reminds me of another from me. Walking to my car listening to my iPod. I got in to my car and turned the key, and couldn’t understand how the song I was listening to was now playing through the speakers as this was before Bluetooth and you had to physically plug the iPod in to the car. Took me a minute to work out the song was actually playing on the radio and it was at pretty much the same point in the song. A little bit of irony was that the song was “Land of Confusion” by Genesis.

I was on a day trip to London and when I got in the lift at Covent Garden tube my cousin, who lives in jersey and I hadn’t seen for many years, was standing next to me.

My birthday is the same date (except the year) that my aunt died (before I was born and I didn’t know about her and never knew her name as she was never discussed as too sad apparently ).

I lost a baby myself and I’d named her…..the same name as that aunt who had died the day I was born.

I only found out about her because my mum freaked out at my name choice and then told me the story about her death and the date etc.

Freaky.

My first 4 dc have connecting dob.

17/6
6/3
3/11
31/1

Visiting friends in London and was on the tube. Very surprised to see my cousin board the same carriage me and DH were on. Neither of us lived in London at the time.

Was travelling in Australia and went in a bar in Cairns. I was approached by a girl who turned out to have been in the same girl guide patrol as me 10 years previously (small English market town)

When I was a child, my dad and stepmother never let us have sweets, fruit, fresh veg, yoghurts or or anything like that. Not that they denied themselves these things. Our diet consisted of cheap frozen pizza, cheap bread and cheap jam. Once, when I was walking home from school, I was freezing cold and miserable, and I saw groups of kids coming out of the corner shop eating Mars bars and I almost burst into tears. I'd not had a chocolate bar since my mum and dad split up over a year before. My mum had craved Mars bars when pregnant with my brother, and I just missed her and him so much and I wanted to go home to her but was too scared to tell my dad. Seeing the Mars bars just about broke my heart for a few reasons. I shuffled along, stifling sobs, eyes on the ground, when I found twenty pence. Then ten pence. Then five. Then two. I gathered it up and went into the shop and found Mars bars were 37p.

I did move back in with my mum.

There's a photo of me on holiday in NYC when I was 19 with my ex. My DP who is from NYC, is in the background. We met when he moved to U.K. 6 years later!

@FuckingFabulous

When I was a child, my dad and stepmother never let us have sweets, fruit, fresh veg, yoghurts or or anything like that. Not that they denied themselves these things. Our diet consisted of cheap frozen pizza, cheap bread and cheap jam. Once, when I was walking home from school, I was freezing cold and miserable, and I saw groups of kids coming out of the corner shop eating Mars bars and I almost burst into tears. I'd not had a chocolate bar since my mum and dad split up over a year before. My mum had craved Mars bars when pregnant with my brother, and I just missed her and him so much and I wanted to go home to her but was too scared to tell my dad. Seeing the Mars bars just about broke my heart for a few reasons. I shuffled along, stifling sobs, eyes on the ground, when I found twenty pence. Then ten pence. Then five. Then two. I gathered it up and went into the shop and found Mars bars were 37p.

I did move back in with my mum.

Tears in my eyes...

Waiting to collect a parcel at click and collect at a department store. Person calls 'R. Charles' (not my name) so I get up and move forwards and so does this other guy. Turns out he is Mr R Charles and I am Miss R Charles. What are the odds. And we were sitting right next to each other.

A neighbour stopped me infront of my house. He had picked up our nursery furniture 2 years earlier, at that stage he lived across town but now had moved to my street.
We had gotten the nursery set from our neighbours when our bub was due and their son was ready for a bedroom upgrade. That nursery has spent most of its 20 year life on the same street.

Made a friend when I moved overseas. Turned out we had almost been meeting for years.

@penguin23 and @HisSplendidSilentSun I LONG for this to happen to me!

The only thing I regret getting rid of from my childhood is my books, they were old picture books and somehow the pictures are sort of ingrained in my mind but not quite I just want to refresh the memories!

Our coincidence story was my family going on a day out and eating in a well known roadside restaurant chain and came across my sibling on another table who was travelling for work and didn't know about the day out at all, both about 300 miles from home!!

My son's mentor at work has the same birthday as DS, my DS is now a mentor and that person also has the same birthday.

When DD went to USA to do camp america, she got talking to a girl in the camp , who turned out to be from our small town and she was the SIL of my old childminders DGD, who i know