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!

Mine too

@LittleGh0st

Mine too

Sorry, that was in reply to the poster with tears I'm their eyes over the Mars bar story.

My old NDN had emigrated to Australia when I was a child. I missed her dreadfully, her house was a bit of a safe haven for my brother and me and she tried to give us extra little bits of food if she had any to spare.

20 years later, I was asked to step in at the last minute to do fundraising for a charity I was involved in - basically shaking a collection tin outside a supermarket back in the city where I'd grown up.

Just got myself into position, when who walks out of the shop but my lovely old NDN. She'd come back for a holiday, first time in 20 years. She was every bit as kind as I remembered. We're still in touch now.

At AltonTowers with my DH in a queue for Nemesis joking about the last timeI was there was with my Ex boyfriend years earlier just after Nemesis had opened (i dumped him weeks later). Turn around and there he was in the queue about 3 people behind me! I hadn't seen him in ten years.

I also bumped into my now DH after knowing him for a few years at sixth form college and losing touch over the summer (pre mobile phones). I was going into my enrollment appointment as he was coming out (completely different courses). He wasn't even meant to be at that uni and had switched last minute and moved.

A family story relates to my grandfather who was from a tiny village in North Wales (Welsh speaking) who was a POW in Italy during WW2 and broke out,leading his battalion to safety. Turns out one of the surviving soldiers was from the same area and went home to start a family - his youngest son became my stepfather 50 years later.

This is not my story obviously but I did once know someone who had the the same form tutor at two different schools some distance apart.

A very good friend gave birth to her first DC a couple of hours after my Dad died. It was weirdly comforting, as though he had gone to make space for a new life.

MIL lived next door to my mum in the 60s when they were students in a large city. They didn't know each other, and it was 30 years before I met DH.

On my grandmother's first day at school she decided she didn't like it so went to find her big sister in the juniors.

The teachers allowed her to stay with her sister and my grandmother sat between sister and a girl she thought was 'rose red' from the fairy tale, red lips, dark hair and pale skin.

Years later my grandmother married, moved to a different town and had 3 daughters, 'Rose red' married and had three sons.

The eldest daughter and son are my parents.

With my parents on a family holiday in Cornwall as we were looking for a place on the beach my parents were discussing a cousin of my dad's who lived in Cornwall. As they are walking along someone calls out my dad's name, yep it was his cousin. They didn't often go to the beach so it was a coincidence.

I was looking for a new housemate in London, a guy turns up to look at the room and we were chatting he was from Australia, I asked where and he said Perth, so I asked, where and he said Perth so I said, no which area of Perth.

Yep he was from the same suburb my relatives had lived in and I'd visited.

[quote Rainbowsew]**@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!![/quote]
I know what you mean re the pictures, they become a part of you don't they. Plus the inscriptions themselves are so important to me. My books inspired me to live in 'another world' and eventually I became an artist and story writer for children.

Keep looking for yours, and hopefully one day they will find their way back to you.

Ooooh love these stories!!

My brother one gave me a lift somewhere when my car broke down and wouldn’t accept any money for petrol. I wrote in black marker on £20 note “for petrol, luv Rgima xxx” and hid it in his jacket pocket before I got out the car.

Anyway about a year later I withdrew some cash from a bank machine in a different city from where we both lived and was the same £20 I’d given him with the message written on it!!

My first loves sons girlfriends mum has the same birthday as me and his son has the same birthday as me too inverted but same month. Probably a bit tenuous.

When I was in middle school I had a massive crush on a boy 2 years older than me. When the time came for him to leave for secondary school, I was upset at the thought of never seeing him again, and vowed I'd tell him how I felt on the last day of term.

Unfortunately a good friend of mine also left that day. And I ran from saying goodbye to her to see him... but he had already gone.

I thought I'd never see him again. However that summer we went to a campsite in the South of France. I was walking back to our caravan from swimming when I turned a corner and literally walked into him.

We had such a lovely holiday, and played together every night. I never saw him again after the holiday, and never told him how I felt.

Just realized he was one year older than me and not two!

Many years ago when I was broke with 2 kids, my friend offered to take me off on holiday, all I needed was £99. No, I said, I can't afford it, sorry.
Fast forward a week and I got my bank statement through the post. The £9 wages I had deposited had been imputed wrongly and I now had £99
Readers, I went on that holiday

Oh yes I have this too - my 3 kids birthdates (including year of birth) are all connected with 1 child’s being a mix of both their siblings dates! It gets even more coincidental as 1 child’s dob and weight are ALL odd numbers, 1 child’s dob and weight are ALL even numbers and 1 child’s dob and weight are a mix of odd and even!

@Suzy39

At AltonTowers with my DH in a queue for Nemesis joking about the last timeI was there was with my Ex boyfriend years earlier just after Nemesis had opened (i dumped him weeks later). Turn around and there he was in the queue about 3 people behind me! I hadn't seen him in ten years.

I also bumped into my now DH after knowing him for a few years at sixth form college and losing touch over the summer (pre mobile phones). I was going into my enrollment appointment as he was coming out (completely different courses). He wasn't even meant to be at that uni and had switched last minute and moved.

A family story relates to my grandfather who was from a tiny village in North Wales (Welsh speaking) who was a POW in Italy during WW2 and broke out,leading his battalion to safety. Turns out one of the surviving soldiers was from the same area and went home to start a family - his youngest son became my stepfather 50 years later.

My grandfather was a POW in Italy during WW2 and he too broke out of the prison camp with friends - what a coincidence if they were together!

My great grandfather ran a pub, but nobody knew where. We purchased a house in a tiny hamlet, unexpectedly as it was the only house available that for the bulk at the time. Visiting the local church my grandfather's first wife and daughter's gravestones were in the churchyard, researching further we discovered that the local pub was his many years ago.

Fit the bill, not for the bulk 😣

@OasisOfFerns what a coincidence! I bumped into an old school friend in Bangkok too!

When I was expecting my first baby I knew nothing about pregnancy and had no one I could ask so I found an online forum (doesn't exist anymore) where all the women were due the same month.
It was a pretty small group of us so we all chatted regularly and often had chats on msn.
When I gave birth at my local hospital I was in for a few days afterwards and a new mum and baby were brought onto the ward. The girl had leaked through her pad so I sort of walked behind her so it couldn't be seen, discreetly passed her a new pad and let her know where the others were kept. She was so embarrassed that she didn't really say much to me after that.
She went home the next day and I was stuck in for longer.
When we got home I logged onto the computer to let the other women on the forum know my baby had arrived. Looking through the photos I spotted familiar curtains
Turns out the lady I spoke to was someone who I spoke to regularly on the board. She was due to give birth in a hospital miles away but it closed to delivering women so she ended up at the same hospital, in the same room, in the bed next to me.

In Boston on holiday and were doing the Tea Party tour. We were asked by the host where we were from and gave the name of our small town in the SW of England. Couple sitting behind us were from a village 5 miles from our town!

Oh another one! My BFF and I live in a town about 250 miles from the town we were both born in. Our parents married in that town on the same day, same year. We met when we were both in our 40s. Also discovered we were house hunting for our first houses (20 years before we met) and viewed many of the same places!

Omg! I should really look it up as he was awarded a MM which i knew nothing of until he passed away.

#1 Unexpectedly in London for day... Walking down a back street in hounslow (oh the glamour...). My brother walks the other way... Neither of us had before, or since been there...(I'd got off at wrong stop and he was picking up a spare for his car as the only place in a 30 mile distance).

#2 visiting London, again, waiting for night bus... Turn around and bump into bloke I'd been friendly with 11 years previously in Devon, and we'd lost touch (before mobiles). Both of us were only in London overnight.

#2. Out on a small non tourist carribean island. Local pals neighbour takes us out on his fishing boat to see the sunset, and there is going 5p be a small group of us as he's taking his brothers visiting fríends...
These friends were people I'd worked with 20 years previously from my small home town

Og and the nicest one... Both my great uncle and his dad were away fighting... Completely separate regiments... Neither knew where the other regiment was, as of course, everything was kept very quiet.

Great Uncle was dug in during the battle of monte cassino... Loads of death /fighting and chaos... Leaps over into another dig out with a few soldiers in it... Was surprised to come face to face with his dad!

Both survived the war and went on to jave full lives.