This is my favourite as though it’s fairly inconsequential it involved quite a series of coincidences.
This was about 30 years ago pre the digital age where if you wanted to listen to music by a particular artist you had to physically buy a CD.
i was getting ready for the day at sixth form and unusually I had put the radio on while getting dressed. I heard a song from a band I’d heard a few times before and I idly thought “I should buy one of their albums. They’ve been around for a while, I wonder if they have a greatest hits?”.
Roll on lunch break at school and one of my friends said she was going to the second hand record store to buy a present - I said I would tag along. I’d gone to sixth form in a small town some distance from my own and had no idea it even had a record store - it turned out to be a small independent shop tucked down a back street, you wouldn’t know it was there unless you were looking for it.
As we were walking down there I remembered I had £20 in my bag because someone had paid me back for a trip we’d made a few weeks previous. At this age I didn’t carry a bank card and usually carried no money at all to school except a couple of quid to buy chips on Fridays. To have enough money on me to buy an album was very, very unusual indeed, perhaps the only time I happened.
So at the record shop with £20 in hand, I went to look to see if they had any albums by the band I’d heard on the radio that same morning. And yes, they did have a greatest hits album on the shelf!
I took it to the counter and the owner said “ha well that’s a coincidence I only put that out this morning!”
I loved that album and still love the band 30 years later, and still think about that string of coincidences that led me to love them every time I hear them.