Your best coincidental moments
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Got separated from my mates on holiday in Greece but decided to stay out and dance like an itchy Gibbon anyway and was invited back to a girls apartment, nothing transpired but we just sat chatting, then the door went and in walks her mate with my mate in tow, how random is that, in the whole, fairly huge and busy resort, from a different club she meets, completely independently one of the chaps I was on holiday with and drags him back.
First job out of school back in the mid 80's, working as a clerk for a small independent Customs Brokers at Heathrow. Basically a freight forwarders. Company owners son was a little oik of a medical student who used to pop into see daddy every now and then.
Boss owned a nice pad down near Chichester.
Fast forward to 2005, met the Mrs who was working for a hospital down in Chichester, got chatting about our lives, told her about my old boss, wondering if he was still with us.
Turns out spotty little oik is now the top consultant at the hospital where she was working.
Boss owned a nice pad down near Chichester.
Fast forward to 2005, met the Mrs who was working for a hospital down in Chichester, got chatting about our lives, told her about my old boss, wondering if he was still with us.
Turns out spotty little oik is now the top consultant at the hospital where she was working.
J4CKO said:
Got separated from my mates on holiday in Greece but decided to stay out and dance like an itchy Gibbon anyway and was invited back to a girls apartment, nothing transpired but we just sat chatting, then the door went and in walks her mate with my mate in tow, how random is that, in the whole, fairly huge and busy resort, from a different club she meets, completely independently one of the chaps I was on holiday with and drags him back.
Had a minor car crash which wrote mine off, had to wait for recovery and just about got to my Pass Plus course on time. There was one space left to sit in the group, and it was right next to a mate I worked with, neither of us knew the other was gonna be there, just the way people had sat down.
Made the time pass quicker.
But even more unbelievable was when the course leader asked if anyone had ever had a car crash,me and another lad raised our hands and he said yeah, I crashed into him (me) over there, just a couple hours ago.
Just 1 course was run every month, what a coincidence we both happened to be on it?
Made the time pass quicker.
But even more unbelievable was when the course leader asked if anyone had ever had a car crash,me and another lad raised our hands and he said yeah, I crashed into him (me) over there, just a couple hours ago.
Just 1 course was run every month, what a coincidence we both happened to be on it?
J4CKO said:
Got separated from my mates on holiday in Greece but decided to stay out and dance like an itchy Gibbon anyway and was invited back to a girls apartment, nothing transpired but we just sat chatting, then the door went and in walks her mate with my mate in tow, how random is that, in the whole, fairly huge and busy resort, from a different club she meets, completely independently one of the chaps I was on holiday with and drags him back.
...and it all ended up like some perverse 4-legged version of the Eiffel Tower.Signed off from work one Friday evening when i used to work in a soul destroying call centre, off to the airport for a long weekend in dublin with the lads.
2 days in and im in some bar getting served when in walks the girl who sat directly oposite me at work. A true finger pointing "wtf are you doing here" sort of moment. We hadnt told each other what we were both doing that weekend either, so no dodgy stalking going on.
2 days in and im in some bar getting served when in walks the girl who sat directly oposite me at work. A true finger pointing "wtf are you doing here" sort of moment. We hadnt told each other what we were both doing that weekend either, so no dodgy stalking going on.
Was invited to the RWC final in Sydney in 2003 by one of my brokers at the last minute. I flew in from Tokyo. I went to the lunch before the match. Met one of my old school friends at the lunch. Bumped into a client on the street. Met two friends in the ground. None of us knew the others would be there.
Three of us lost money in the arcades as kids. We sat at a bus stop saying things like "Please God, let us get some money" and "I wish some money would just float past" etc. A few mins later a bag fell off the back of a motorbike right in front of us and £100 fell out and fluttered in to the road. We did call after the rider, but he just carried on. We kept a tenner each and put the rest in the bank book and posted it through the then closed letterbox of the bank.
After having a random trip to Alton Towers, we soon discovered that almost everywhere was booked (peak season). We drove for miles trying to find somewhere and in the end, we ended up pretty lost and at a tiny crossroads in some village with only three cottages in view for miles around. One of them said B&B on a small sign, so I walked up the path to knock. Just as I knocked, someone said my name from behind me and I turned round to see the girl I worked with a week earlier who was also trying to find somewhere to stay after also deciding to have a random trip with her other half to Alton Towers.
A few of us went away for a break in Cornwall. We collected some friends from Hastings and noticed many Jethro posters up all around the town. On the way to Newquay, we saw many more posters and it became a bit of a running joke to talk about "our mate Jethro" etc. Once we had arrived we booked in to one of better hotels as the prices were cheaper than expected and stood at the bar to have a drink before going to our rooms. Some guy next to us got chatting and as my friend went to the loo, I stood there amazed that he was on tour with.....yep, Jethro! With that, my mate walked out of the toilet followed by Jethro himself and we all stood at the bar together having a brief chat.
My friend once sat at our kitchen table telling me about some new song he had heard and as he explained what it was about, I said "It's on now". I got up, walked over to the radio, turned the dial, (the song had just started), sat back down and only realised what had just happened when I looked up at my friend and he was just sat there with his mouth and eyes wide open.
After having a random trip to Alton Towers, we soon discovered that almost everywhere was booked (peak season). We drove for miles trying to find somewhere and in the end, we ended up pretty lost and at a tiny crossroads in some village with only three cottages in view for miles around. One of them said B&B on a small sign, so I walked up the path to knock. Just as I knocked, someone said my name from behind me and I turned round to see the girl I worked with a week earlier who was also trying to find somewhere to stay after also deciding to have a random trip with her other half to Alton Towers.
A few of us went away for a break in Cornwall. We collected some friends from Hastings and noticed many Jethro posters up all around the town. On the way to Newquay, we saw many more posters and it became a bit of a running joke to talk about "our mate Jethro" etc. Once we had arrived we booked in to one of better hotels as the prices were cheaper than expected and stood at the bar to have a drink before going to our rooms. Some guy next to us got chatting and as my friend went to the loo, I stood there amazed that he was on tour with.....yep, Jethro! With that, my mate walked out of the toilet followed by Jethro himself and we all stood at the bar together having a brief chat.
My friend once sat at our kitchen table telling me about some new song he had heard and as he explained what it was about, I said "It's on now". I got up, walked over to the radio, turned the dial, (the song had just started), sat back down and only realised what had just happened when I looked up at my friend and he was just sat there with his mouth and eyes wide open.
My ex wife's parents were on a mystery two day tour through the North West/Midlands. They rang us from Liverpool on the first day and told us that the second day would be a visit to a country park in Derbyshire. They said they would be staying somewhere on-route that evening but they didn't know where.
Fast forward to that evening and we were in McDonald's car park in Crewe that has a Ramada hotel next to it. We then see a large coach pull into the hotel car park full of passengers. 'It can't be them, can it?' we said. The car park was packed so we decided to drive home and call the hotel and ask to see if her parents were staying there.
Imagine our suprise when my in-laws answered they phone!
Not that amazing a coincidence I hear you ask? Well it turns out we'd accidentally rung the wrong hotel in Crewe, the coach we'd seen wasn't theirs and they weren't staying at the Ramada. They were staying at a completely different hotel 2 miles down the road.
Fast forward to that evening and we were in McDonald's car park in Crewe that has a Ramada hotel next to it. We then see a large coach pull into the hotel car park full of passengers. 'It can't be them, can it?' we said. The car park was packed so we decided to drive home and call the hotel and ask to see if her parents were staying there.
Imagine our suprise when my in-laws answered they phone!
Not that amazing a coincidence I hear you ask? Well it turns out we'd accidentally rung the wrong hotel in Crewe, the coach we'd seen wasn't theirs and they weren't staying at the Ramada. They were staying at a completely different hotel 2 miles down the road.
Bit odd this one....I'm getting a bit of fresh air outside one day when the local oddball 'cat-woman' type character bumps into me and before I can get away she starts dramatically and tearfully telling me her woes and telling me how lovely I am while breathing her booze fumes in my face (well. it was 9.30 am....) so, seeing this my OH comes to my rescue and very kindly tells her to go home and have a coffee and forget about it all, which seems to do the trick and we watch her waddle off down the road....
Leaning on my Mrs as we watch her go safely towards her house, I'm put in mind of the Squeeze song 'Labelled with Love' and start to serenade her with the first lines of the song....
"She unscrews the top of her new whiskey bottle..... shuffles around in her candlelit hovel....like some kind of witch... with blue fingers in mittens, she smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens...."
We walk back inside and I swear....that very same song starts to play on the radio. We stood there listening. Speechless.
Spooky.....
Leaning on my Mrs as we watch her go safely towards her house, I'm put in mind of the Squeeze song 'Labelled with Love' and start to serenade her with the first lines of the song....
"She unscrews the top of her new whiskey bottle..... shuffles around in her candlelit hovel....like some kind of witch... with blue fingers in mittens, she smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens...."
We walk back inside and I swear....that very same song starts to play on the radio. We stood there listening. Speechless.
Spooky.....
mybrainhurts said:
Went to a pub, twelve miles away, to meet a pal whose car had been stolen two months earlier.
The thief hid it and took it for a first drive that evening on false plates...
And turned up at the very same pub.
What was the outcome did you call police straight away or did you go over and say nice car fella ? The thief hid it and took it for a first drive that evening on false plates...
And turned up at the very same pub.
Ilovejapcrap said:
mybrainhurts said:
Went to a pub, twelve miles away, to meet a pal whose car had been stolen two months earlier.
The thief hid it and took it for a first drive that evening on false plates...
And turned up at the very same pub.
What was the outcome did you call police straight away or did you go over and say nice car fella ? The thief hid it and took it for a first drive that evening on false plates...
And turned up at the very same pub.
This was in the 70s. They used to take car theft seriously in those days.
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