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Xmasisoffsantahascovid · 2023-12-21T12:04:17+00:00

Adult ds visited yesterday. Discussing the Lotto, telling him I had put a few lucky dips on over Christmas! He was saying he had kept the same chosen numbers since moving out of home 4 years ago. His gf also does Lotto with her own chosen numbers.. Her grandma saw their tickets on the table last week and asked why they had the same chosen numbers? Another odd thing both of them chose those numbers in the November of the same year. They hadn't even met them. Quite a recent relationship and don't live together..

coxesorangepippin · 27/12/2023 01:28

I'm from the UK but now live in Canada

Less than a kilometer away from me lives a woman from the same tiny town the UK

DilemmaDelilah · 27/12/2023 02:45

I was born when my aunt was 16. Her daughter was born when I was 16. My daughter was born when my niece was 16. There are other instances of 16 year gap within the family as well!

useitorlose · 27/12/2023 04:13

I made friends with someone in the church creche whose daughter was about 7m younger than my toddler. She was a single mum. About a year later we were chatting on the phone and she happened to mention that her daughter's father (they had no contact) was ex Royal Navy. I said he wasn't called X, was he? jokingly - she said, yes he was actually. We went through a few more details and established that the father, an ex colleague of hers from a different city to where we lived now, was my ex husband, who I had met while still in sixth form in another city 250 miles away.

LibbyL92 · 27/12/2023 04:48

About 10 years ago I was on holiday in Spain. There were this couple who were on the same excursion as us. Didn’t really speak to them.

A year later we were in the Caribbean and they were on another excursion the same
as us and then flew back home and were sat right in front of us. Very strange! We didn’t exchange details or anything but had a good laugh about it.

fast forward a couple of years we were in Spain again (different part) and they were out putting towels out at the same time as us.. by this point we’ve become friends on social media ect. But never bumped into them again! Insane!!!!!

Justleaveitblankthen · 27/12/2023 06:22

@RolRolyPolyBatFacedGirl

This is so heartwarming for some reason. Your book found it's way home🙂

Brendabigbaps · 27/12/2023 06:45

Sat on a sun lounger in Mexico, got chatting to the family next to us, same local accent.
only turns out to be my hairdressers sister!

Gemütlich81 · 27/12/2023 07:31

I moved from London to another city in the North when I was 10 years old. A couple of years later at secondary school i started learning French. I found out that my French teacher also came from London we lived on the same street when I was growing up!!

Another coincidence was that I moved to Madrid for a few months and studied Spanish whilst there. I sat next to a guy from Morocco in the class one day and after chatting we found out that our first cousins were friends as they were both studying the same course at University in a totally different city to where they originated from.

The coincidences on this thread are fascinating.

Pozz · 27/12/2023 07:35

ChateauDuMont · 26/12/2023 23:10

When I was a little girl (circa 1971/72) it was not unusual to have the occasional stray dog wandering around.

One day a black dog appeared in our drive and once my sister and I had made a fuss of him, he followed us back to our house.

He was quite at home with us for a couple of hours but my mother said he obviously belonged to someone and his owners had to be found.

My other sister and brother were out on their bikes and they had come across a woman and a little boy looking for their dog.

When they came home they said the dogs name was Blackie and they knew roughly where the dog lived.

We used a lead from one of our own dogs and my sister and I along with my sister who had been out on her bike set off to return the dog. Back then it was quite normal for young children to be given responsible jobs to do.

We were soon able to reunite Blackie the dog with the woman and the little boy who had been terribly upset about Blackie disappearing. He was the same age as me but had just moved into the area and was going to start at an all boys school and Blackie was his only friend!

The little boy became our friend and we had lovely times at his house and him with us during school holidays of which our dogs and Blackie were part of the fun.

Alas his family moved away in the late 70s and of course we all lost touch.

Fast forward to 2015 and while we were still living in London, we had four dogs and one was a big black dog (sadly now passed away). He was a rescue and called Jack.

He was a lovely dog and he reminded me and my sisters and brother of Blackie, Brinsley's dog who I knew as a child.

One day walking mine and my sisters dogs with my sister, the one who was with me when we first met Blackie the lost dog, over Wimbledon common, Jacky gave chase to something. Possibly a rabbit, but he took off and we got the others on leads and went after him, calling his name.

After ten minutes I got a phone call, a chap had him secured and we arranged to meet them.

The man was with his wife and their two dogs.

As we thanked them and got talking I thought I recognised the man and was puzzling it over when my sister shrieked, 'Brinsley, you're Brinsley. It was indeed and a lovely reunion and we are all friends once more.

Wimbledon common is nowhere near where we grew up! A coincidence of fate and a repayment of the good deed of reuniting Blackie with his family.

Wow I love this!

Pozz · 27/12/2023 07:48

Went to see a Panto recently in a town an hour away from where we live.

We got chatting with 2 ladies as we were all trying to find the exit from the car park onto the street.

Our seats were pre booked so we didn't rush and after queuing for ice cream for DD we were the very last people to sit down in the huge auditorium and guess who we were sitting next to. The two ladies.

JazzyJogger · 27/12/2023 07:49

Two old school friends ( pre internet days ) turned out that they had both emigrated to the USA and lived in Long Island . Unbeknown to them they had lived one block apart from each other but their paths had never crossed. One moved back to the UK the other moved to Texas . It all came out years later when the internet evolved .

scaredofff · 27/12/2023 09:19

Similar to DilemmaDelilah

My mum was 8 when her db was born. Her db (my uncle) was 16 when I was born
I was 8 when my db was born
My brother was 8 when my db2 was born so there's 16 years between me and brother2

Pizdietz · 27/12/2023 09:28

I think the Blackie story is pretty unbeatable!!! 💗 Awww...

I've told this one before, but will have another go as I told it so badly before.

Brief background: DH is considerably younger than me (>20 years). We've been married for more than a decade, were together for quite a while before that, and are still the happiest couple we know. It helps that he never wanted kids, is not fascinated by female beauty (just as well, as the years go by!), and we truly enjoy each other's company more than anyone else's. We've had a lovely Xmas, just the two of us living in the middle of nowhere, and are off fishing today.

Anyway. Years ago, when he first spent the night at my place, in the morning I went downstairs to the kitchen and noticed an old diary left out on the kitchen table. I'd been experimenting with writing about my first marriage, which was rather abusive, and because it was by then ancient history I'd dug out some journals I'd kept at the time, to remind me what it was like to be trapped in misery.

As the kettle was boiling, it occurred to me that it would be fun to find out what I was doing on this exact day, almost 20 years ago. So I located that page, and found out:

I'd been embarrassed at work by my friend, who went around telling everyone I dreamed about having sex with children! That morning, I'd woken from a very intense dream about a young boy living somewhere in Eastern Europe. There was something "street smart" about him, but the weird thing was that he felt like an old soul, mature, even kind of sexy - I couldn't put into words how attracted I felt to him, he was like a soulmate. Yet how could some gopnik kid be my soulmate? Let alone sexy, given that in my dream I knew very clearly that he was 13.5 years old?!??! It didn't make any sense at all, which is why I tried to talk to my friend about it, and then she ran around with her paedophile alert 😲😁

What's weird is that at the time of that dream, DH would have been 13.5 years old and living pretty rough in an Eastern European country.

Please don't be alarmed, he was nearly 40 by the time I met him. But sexy, yes!!!!!!! and definitely an old soul. 💗💗💗💗💗

He's very cynical about anything remotely "woo" but even he was impressed by this 😁

goldedging · 27/12/2023 09:38

Years ago I did an overseas charity trip (helped to build a school). There were probably 200 or so volunteers from all over the world but as we were working in smaller teams, didn't get to meet many of them. On the last day, we all had a big group photo taken and were all later sent a copy.

Fast forward 20 years and I was visiting some friends in another part of the Uk. Unexpectedly their neighbours popped in, ended up staying for a drink and somehow we ended up talking about holidays, countries we've visited etc. The neighbour mentions she'd helped to build a school and I said, 'oh, I did something similar too'. We finally realise that we were both on the same project at the same time. To make things even weirder, she nipped home to get a copy of the group photo which she still had saved in a box...and to our utter shock, we were actually sitting next to each other in the photo!

To this day, I still think that's really weird!

freyf · 27/12/2023 09:38

On September 10th 2001 my then boyfriend lent me Busta Rhymes album 'extinction level event'. On the morning of September 11th 2001 I woke up and the album was on my table. I looked at the cover of it and had the most horrendous sensation and at the time couldn't explain it. If you google the album you will see it is Manhattan up in flames. Later that day we all know what happened.

A month previous I was actually in New York by the towers. I really wonder who/what was trying to tell me that morning.

RolyPolyBatFacedGirl · 27/12/2023 10:25

@Pizdietz ermmmmm I'm not sure that I'd be re-telling that one tbh!

TigerRag · 27/12/2023 10:30

My mum used to care for a man who lived about 25 miles away. Next door lived mum's cousin who she'd never met before.

Nannyfannybanny · 27/12/2023 10:35

Not nearly as interesting as some of these, but every single time, I go into my kitchen regardless of the different things I do every day,it's always 9.11 and 11.11 on the cooker clock,it's become a standing family joke.

Coincidentally · 27/12/2023 10:50

Name changed for this as possibly very outing.
Too long and complicated to detail but I very unexpectedly met a gorgeous man when coming out of an abusive marriage (at a barbecue that I only went to as lonely on a Saturday night -I hate barbecues) -let’s say it was 12 July. It changed my l life -gained new friends and interests through him, lost weight -gained confidence.
Steeled the courage to leave my marriage but couldn’t bear to leave the garden I had nurtured for years and home I’d resided my family.
One rainy afternoon a few months later saw a casual acquaintance in a a cafe -he was scrolling through houses for sale snd showed me one he and his partner had considered but too small. I saw it, loved it, viewed it the next day and miraculously persuaded exh to buy me out of the marital home and bought it. It is a unique a property and only available because the person before me who had lived there for 91 years died on the evening of 12 July…
It is an amazing place in a perfect location for me and only happened because I went to an event I didn’t want to go to and an amazing sequence of events brought me to the place that only became available that night. And I moved in 12 Feb - exactly 7 months after those two unrelated events.

Pizdietz · 27/12/2023 10:51

RolyPolyBatFacedGirl · 27/12/2023 10:25

@Pizdietz ermmmmm I'm not sure that I'd be re-telling that one tbh!

But dreams are really weird. I mean the fact that he was 13.5 years old was just a fact about him, that didn't fit at all with the "soul" aspect. It's not like I ever found anything the least bit attractive about teenage boys! 🤮

Nannyfannybanny · 27/12/2023 10:56

My 2 sons and I all moved within a month of one another. Absolutely pure chance, one was homeless, one in bedsit given 1 bedroom place for disabled, and we bought and sold. My 2 girls both hit a deer, within weeks of one another... first time ever. They have both had a bedroom window repaired in the same week, same problem, one is private renting Victorian house, the other HA 1940s flat. I changed hairdresser after a dispute, found out the new one lives opposite me,and her husband works for DD landlord and does repairs on her house!

Sunbird24 · 27/12/2023 11:00

There was a certain hymn played at the funeral of a beloved family friend, that came on on radio 2 right as I arrived at her house a couple of weeks later to meet her executor and choose some personal items for myself. I’d never heard it on the radio before, and haven’t again in the 9 years since (plus it was a Saturday lunchtime so not like a Sunday morning where you might more usually to get hymns). I’m 80:20 on the coincidence/woo ratio for this incident but it did make me smile.

Sausages345pp · 27/12/2023 11:14

I live in Winchester and was attending a show at the theatre there . At the end of the show we were leaving and I realised I recognised the couple who had been sat behind me from somewhere . It was my aunts sister and brother in law who I had meet at her funeral in Glasgow 6 months earlier.

Maaofatoddler · 27/12/2023 13:29

My birthday is 29/8 and my son was born at 8.29am. Lucky coincidence

Marellaspirit · 27/12/2023 14:59

What on earth does he look like that that could happen 😁how would anyone recognize and remember a person in the background of a 3 year old photo?
Apparently he looked a lot like a friend of hers and she'd kept the photo to show them.

gloriawasright · 27/12/2023 17:00

Sunbird24 · 27/12/2023 11:00

There was a certain hymn played at the funeral of a beloved family friend, that came on on radio 2 right as I arrived at her house a couple of weeks later to meet her executor and choose some personal items for myself. I’d never heard it on the radio before, and haven’t again in the 9 years since (plus it was a Saturday lunchtime so not like a Sunday morning where you might more usually to get hymns). I’m 80:20 on the coincidence/woo ratio for this incident but it did make me smile.

We wanted to play a certain song at our close relative's funeral .we had to change our plans as the song is about 6 mns long .too long for the funeral.
We got in the car to go to the funeral and the song came on the radio .we just all looked at each other .it brought a smile to us all.
He got his song after all