Your best coincidental moments

Your best coincidental moments

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gtidriver

3,334 posts

186 months

Saturday 5th March 2016
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I've seen a Renault Clio with a Reg number out from a Renault Espace I'd bought new from Birmingham 5-6 yrs before,this was in Dover.

Big Rod

6,198 posts

215 months

Saturday 5th March 2016
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I once pulled up outside a train station and some bloke jumped in my car and said 'Thanks for picking me up.'

I said something along the lines of 'Eh!?!?'

And he said 'Oh, I thought you were here to take me to <insert company name>.

I said, 'No, I'm here to fix a computer.'

'Oh!' he said, this is a blue Sierra and the reg' number is 'H825 SMS isn't it?'

I said 'Yes but I have no idea who you are.'

With that another blue Sierra pulled into the station with the plate 'H85 SMS'.

I figured during whatever calls were placed to set this meeting up he mistook 'eighty five' for 'eight two five'.

Still quite peculiar though I thought.

rossw46

1,293 posts

159 months

Saturday 5th March 2016
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I grew up in South Africa, worked in a pub in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere just before I left. I'd been in London for about a year, and was going into London for a beer, travelling down an escalator I see 2 lads who used to drink in the pub travelling up the other side of the escalator. Very surreal, we spotted other, massive WTFs from each side and laughs. Never saw them again.

Similar coincidence. At some friends house in Leytonstone for a BBQ. Rugby ball comes over the fence. I pick up the ball, climb up on something to pass the ball over, and it's a good mate of mine's neighbour in South Africa, used to drink with them a few times when I still lived there. Another WTF moment.

DickyC

49,539 posts

197 months

Saturday 5th March 2016
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Yesterday's lunch wasn't ordinary. I had to drive to the bank to top up my current account or face fees. On the way in I followed a bronze Mini convertible with the registration 1201 PH. It stuck in my mind. Having done all the random things one does with parking, buying a ticket, walking, queueing up, paying in and walking back, I then followed the same car back again. And not just in the same queue, immediately it behind it both ways.

steve2

1,771 posts

217 months

Saturday 5th March 2016
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I bought a table and chairs off EBay and my nephew took my wife up to Luton from Kent to collect it, I could not go as I had just had a spinal operation.

When they got to the seller it turns out it was the wife's old next door neighbour before he moved!!

Trevatanus

11,109 posts

149 months

Friday 27th May 2016
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Got tagged on a Facebook post to name an 80's track that you like, but have not heard for ages.
I picked "The Crown" by Gary Byrd and the GB Experience.

Left the office at 8pm got in the car, Radio2 was playing it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEQhxslprE

ExV8

3,642 posts

214 months

Friday 27th May 2016
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I got in a lift at work with a colleague who has the same birthday, carrying the obligatory cakes. In an office with 10000 employees there were 2 others, 1 of which shared the same birthday..


ch108

1,127 posts

132 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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In the days before mobiles, a college pal was trying to get in touch with me. He knew my surname and the town where I lived. I have a common surname, so he just picked one at random in the phonebook in my area. The number he picked was my grans telephone number, and I happened to be visiting her at the time! Was a surprise when she handed me the phone and said it was for me.

On a holiday to visit a pal in Sydney, an ex work colleague was travelling in Australia around the same time and we had said we should try and meet up if he was in town. On the day I landed whilst out for a beer I texted him to say I was now in Sydney. Turns out he was about 5 minutes away from the pub we were in, and joined us for a drink. Quite a coincidence considering he could have been anywhere in Sydney or Melbourne where he had recently travelled from.


jdw100

4,067 posts

163 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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ExV8 said:
I got in a lift at work with a colleague who has the same birthday, carrying the obligatory cakes. In an office with 10000 employees there were 2 others, 1 of which shared the same birthday..
If you have 22 people in a room there's a 50% chance two will share the same Birthday.

So with 10,000 employees there will be lots of shared Birthdays.

coopedup

3,741 posts

138 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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I was in Australia for all of 3 days of a year long trip when I met a guy running a bar in Newcastle who was an exchange student at my very small old college on the south coast, same house as well.
In a queue to get a flight back from Toronto got talking to the couple in front, turned out he was the landlord of a pub I used to drink in occasionally less than a mile from where I lived.

SilverSpur

20,911 posts

246 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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languagetimothy said:
I cant remember where I heard this one.. might have been family/friends... a middle age couple living in south london had trouble with their washing machine which was just out of guarantee and they were given a number of an independent engineer who came out and fixed it. A year or two later they moved to Australia and took everything in a container, including the washing machine.(why?) it went wrong again at some point so they spoke to a local chap who said 'oh thats a european model, given this guy a call' they did and he was round the next day - it was the same engineer who had fixed it in south london.
Amazing that he got there so quickly.
hehe

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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Imagine the call out fee

Good job they were in when he called too.

Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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And imagine if he got there and found he'd left his correct size spanner at home loser

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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BraveSirRobin said:
When my stepmum died, we obviously cancelled her mobile phone contract. Shortly afterwards, my Dad inquired about a volunteer driving job for a children's Day Centre just around the corner. He was a bit shocked to get a call from my stepmum's number - turns out they'd reallocated the number to the Day Centre Manager!
Wins for me so far!

CTO

2,643 posts

209 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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BraveSirRobin said:
When my stepmum died, we obviously cancelled her mobile phone contract. Shortly afterwards, my Dad inquired about a volunteer driving job for a children's Day Centre just around the corner. He was a bit shocked to get a call from my stepmum's number - turns out they'd reallocated the number to the Day Centre Manager!
BraveSirRobin,

Are you on the efestivals forum? If not, there is a chap that posts there with your forum name....

That could be a coincidence!

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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A couple of weeks ago I bumped into a now elderly couple who lived in my road when I was a kid. Had a good chat, the lady was a bit freaked out as she had bumped into another old neighbour from 40+ years ago and they spoke about me & my brother & wondered where we ended up.
Roll forward a week. My wife & I had lunch at the Ritz to celebrate a big wedding anniversary, 30 odd miles from home. Guess who was at the next table?!!

EnglishTony

2,552 posts

98 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Was thinking about this thread when I noticed one of the blokes from what was my local had parked his coach in front of the flat I now live in about 4 hours away from the pub.

Yiliterate

3,786 posts

205 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I was at a wedding in German a while back where an old uni friend (English) was marrying a local. I was sat on a table with some others of the British contingent, including two middle-aged couples. Conversation between them went as follows:

A: So where do you live then?

B: Oh, Glasgow...

A: Really, how interesting! We used to live in Glasgow too...moved away about X years ago.

B: Oh really? That's roughly when we moved up there. Whereabouts did you live...?


You can see where this is going. Turns out couple B actually bought their house from couple A, but had never actually met until that point as the husband A was in the military and had been posted abroad, so the Army sorted out the house sale on his behalf...

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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When I was 18 I went to Blackpool with a mate for a long weekend (we lived in Bucks).

I got thrown backwards from a fairground ride and was flying through the air, head first, towards the corner one of the heavy wooden supports for the roof. It would have killed me had I not hit the thigh of a girl standing in front of the post.

I broke her femur in two with my head and she ends up in hospital.

When I went to visit her we found out that we were both born on the same day, same month, same year!

Buster73

5,042 posts

152 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Met a couple when we went skiing in France years ago , the next year we booked a last minute trip and ended up in Kitzbuhel by chance.

Second day in we took a wrong turning on a run and ended up underneath a chairlift when the couple we had met in France shouted out our names .

They had booked the same last minute deal but had ended up in a different hotel.