Incredible co-incidences

[mattyn1]

I don’t know if I have said this here before but my sister’s birthday is 26 Feb. Now on that day in 1993 there was a terrorist attack on the WTC in NY.

My birthday is 11 Sept!!!

[Shakermaker]

Sadly, my grandmother died this week, she was my last grandparent. As such, it got me reminiscing about all the happy memories of the time we had together, and particularly of that was the vintage cars that were a part so much of my grandad's life, and the amount of times we would see them come to visit us when they were off across Europe in one of the "old cars" for a rally of sorts.

Casually typed "Talbot" into eBay and the first hit was my grandad's old car, the one i have the fondest memories of, that he sold in 2001, which has now ended up only about 40 miles from me.

Sadly I can't afford it, but I hope that the dealer who has it will let me come and have a look at least

[heterosapien]

Not nearly as exciting as all your stories, but I've flown direct from Heathrow to Los Angeles 3 times now and every time I've been on the same plane. On two occasions I've even been in the same seat.

That's about as interesting as my life gets

[talksthetorque]

The Ex and I sauntered up to a Los Angeles restaurant in 2001 only to be told they didn't have any tables available. On our way out general wierdo and spoonophile Yuri Geller waltzed past us and apologised for not booking and was immediately shown to a table. bd.

Fast forward to 2004 and a work trip to Switzerland, arrived at the gate in Zurich airport pretty late and was told it was too late.
At this point a flustered man - known for his manipulation of cutlery - turned up at the same gate and was ushered on the plane, followed by me with a "perhaps we can let you on this time" from the gate staff.

Ha! You'll never get away with the same trick twice Mr Geller.

[mholt1995]

My boss' boss at the last place I worked went to the same school I'd worked at a couple years prior (obviously he went there a good 30+ years before I started working there) which was a crazy coincidence in my view! There's a good 150 miles between the place I was working and the school too.

[Buster73]

Brother and his girlfriend decided they’d take a year out and travel the world , doing casual work as they moved around.

A few months later I was reading about Crested Butte ski resort and decided to log on to their website to get some more info , low and behold was a photo of the both of them tagged
“Liftie of the day “ .

Both of them were working as lift attendants in the ski resort.

Didn’t even know they were there to be honest.

[Vanin]

Cue Twilight Zone music



My wife and I went to a remote Caribbean Island for a break. No phones, no wifi and only about thirty guests . There was a line of about a dozen chalets along the shore, a path connecting them all to the main reception with about fifty yards of gorgeous soft white sand and then the blue sea.

Paradise, and after about three days forgot all about emails and business and social media.

Nothing to do except walk and swim, drink and eat. Interestingly although the food and drink were all in and part of the package we were so relaxed that we did not need any alcohol or evening meal.

It was Brexit result day and we had heard nothing and did not care too much.

I returned from the sea and found half a dozen people square searching the white sand over an area the size of a football pitch

I asked them what they were looking for and they said one of the girls had lost their earring . White soft sand, there was so little hope that I did not even bother to mention it to my wife

We went for another long walk then back to the chalet to eventually retire to bed. In the night there was a storm, not severe enough to wake us but in the morning when we walked along the path to breakfast the sand had washed up over the path in places and I just thought to myself that really was the end of the earring.

After breakfast another swim for me and I came back to the chalet to find my wife examining her flip flop for iguana poo. She said "What's this?" She cleared some muck off and lol and behold there gleamed a diamond earring embedded in her flip flop.

I went straight round to find the owner and was told that she was in number 10 . Knocked on the door no reply. I did not think that there was any hurry as I was sure they would stay till the weekend

Went round the corner and there were three girls there. " Has one of you lost an earring?"

"Have you found It, OMG etc etc, the girl who lost it is just walking down the jetty to catch the boat as she is leaving for New York"

Found a young fit guy and asked him to run and stop the boat.

She came over flung her arms around me and went to meet my wife and flung her arms around her too. Took photos of the flip flop and ring





She came back later with her husband plus a bottle of champagne and a bottle of vodka and the result of Brexit!

She told us that she had a dream during the night of the storm that her grandmother was going to help her find it. Her grandmother or Nana as she called her had been dead for some time

After we returned to England we had a very long email from her home in Central Park West which gives an idea of the value of the earring. She also still had the clasp stuck behind her earlobe so she lost nothing. Not forgetting that my wife had been going on long walks with it stuck to her flip flop.

She had been telling the story to an aunt and her aunt reminded her that her grandmother was really called Charlotte but everyone called her Lottie.

My wife is called Lise-Lotte but everyone calls her Lottie!

In addition to that my wife lived in America for ten years and never met another Lottie. All the American Charlottes were either called Charlie or Char.



More Twilight Zone music!

[Vanin]

Flipflop with earring hole

[Blib]

A small one......

I've just returned from Westfield , White City. Mrs B. popped into Aquascutum and asked an assistant whether they offer a raincoat reproofing service? The assistant replied in the negative. Persisting, Mrs B enquired whether they had dry-cleaners that they'd recommend to do the job?

The assistant checked with his manager and on his return gave us a name. Of all of the dry cleaners in London, they recommended our local dry cleaners, which is miles from Westfield.

Edited by Blib on Saturday 23 June 17:07

[Stedman]

I was driving down a road locally with the Mrs when she told me she'd previously lived in a house in the area. As we approached a turning she points out said house; I had lived in the same house albeit 15 years after her.

[AstonZagato]

My parents were selling their house 35 years ago. They wanted something bigger in the same area. They found something but it didn't really inspire them. But we decided to focus on selling our one so we could move quickly. We had three separate couples viewing ours. There was a knock on the door. A chap had heard that ours was for sale and could he have a look around? We let him wander round on his own as none of us were free to help him. He came back with his wife. They wanted to buy ours - they absolutely loved it. "But yours isn't even on the market and we want to move quickly" was my mum's reply. "Come and have a look at ours" . They lived directly opposite in a bigger house. My mum loved their house too. They agreed to swap (+cash obviously). So we moved over the road.

Fast forward 10 years. I was thinking of buying a house in the UK whilst living in Germany. I found one I wanted to see in a tiny village in Cambridgeshire.I asked my dad if he'd drive me out there as I didn't have a car in the UK. "No problem and I know the village". Odd, I thought. A few years before, they'd tried to move to the country and had had an offer accepted on a house with a lake. The deal fell through because they couldn't find a buyer for their house. It turns out that the house they'd wanted to buy was next door to the one I wanted to see (and eventually bought).

[bobtail4x4]

My parents bought a house from people who turned out to be a barmaid in my local, about 10 years later I bought a house in the next village, from the same couple,
2 years later she knocked on the door saying they were selling the new house (half a mile away) did I want to buy it?

didnt.

[Rostfritt]

A few years ago some of my friends were hanging out at one of their houses and were watching a few funny videos on Youtube. Somehow they got onto watching some Weird Al Yankovic videos. One person there had no idea who he was so was quite amused by him. After a while they decide they need to go out to get something to eat. They wander down to the Stokes Croft area in Bristol. They wander past a few places looking at the menus in the windows to decide what to eat. At one window one of them notices a few people sitting at a table, one of which has quite a lot of curly hair and quite distinctive clothes on. He wanders in on a hunch just to check, it turns out that Weird Al was there having dinner with some members of the Backstreet Boys. They chatted for a bit and he got Weird Al to sign a Bristol Pound he had in his wallet.

[Backtobasics]

Turned a corner of a street on an island far away from here and bumped shoulders with a guy, we both turned and apologised, he was an old school friend I'd not seen in many years.

Sat on a coach traveling to a resort in Greece, a family got on late dad sits next to me, we start chatting, weirdly similar life paths and he posted regularly on pistonheads too.

[talksthetorque]

My mate sold his house to a young couple.
Five years later the same mate's parents were downsizing and no prizes for guessing who bought their house?

[cuprabob]

talksthetorque said:

My mate sold his house to a young couple.
Five years later the same mate's parents were downsizing and no prizes for guessing who bought their house?

Neil Chambers?

[Robbo 27]

Living in Ormskirk at the time, a small town in Lancashire, 24000 people

At the time I was having an odd relationship with a woman in California, her and her husband went on a cruise ship vacation, first night she noticed that the waitress was English and she was asked where she came from, 'a small English town, you wouldnt have heard of it, Ormskirk.'

[PomBstard]

Perhaps not an amazing coincidence, but not an expected circumstance. I’m working as part of a client side project team, there are about 40 or so of us. Unusually for Sydney, there are only 5 Europeans in the team, 4 Brits, including me, and a Spaniard.

Of us five Euros, four of us, including the Spaniard, went to university in Sheffield in the early/mid 90s, and the fifth is from Sheffield. Two of us went to the same one-off free gig at the Leadmill. It was Lush, thanks for asking...

[Robbo 27]

I was 11 years old, my sister 10 years older. I went to the cinema, waiting for the bus to come home a bus ran over my foot injuring my second and third toes. This was at 5.45. At the same time my sister was in the bath, she called out in pain to our mother for help, her second and third toes had gone black.

[talksthetorque]

cuprabob said:

talksthetorque said:

My mate sold his house to a young couple.
Five years later the same mate's parents were downsizing and no prizes for guessing who bought their house?

Neil Chambers?