Vix started selling handmade jewellery on eBay a few few years back. The delivery address for the first thing she sold came up as being in the same small town I grew up in which was I thought was pretty odd. When I looked at the name & address properly it turned out to be the younger sister of my best mate from my school days who still lived at the same house a few doors down from my mum.
Coincidences!
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The only thing i can remember would be thinking of a funny bit in the simpsons or such like, and then the same episode is on later in the day. Happens quite a lot to me. I like to think i have cool but ultimately useless powers.
my brother crashed into the back of a car a few months ago, he only had a cracked number plate but the other guy had a bit of damage done. Anyway, I found out a few days later that I know the guy who my brother went in the back off. A few days later I found out that this guy works in the same place as my mum. I went to work a few days later and one of my work colleagues was
mental.
mental.
This happens to me, but I suspect it is more likely I think of a 100 things that are funny every day, but I only recall thinking about one when it happens to be on TV the same day.
The same is with people who spot the same pattern on the clock. It is likely they look at it over and over without even realising, until they spot the pattern and it sticks.
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A few off the top of my head, nothing major but quite weird:
About ten years ago, I was walking through a town centre, for some reason I started thinking about an old school mate and how nice it would be to catch up at some point. I hadn't seen the said person for a few years and I turned a corner and (literally) bumped into him!
I was in a busy newsagents in my old home town, they had those cards that you can record yourself on. For some reason I decided to pick one up and record myself doing an impression (can't rem who it was). Anyway, about a two months later, I got a call from my best friend (who lived about 10 miles away), he had been in my town and popped into the newsagents to buy something and him and another of my friends happened to pick up the card and play the message back, both totally stunned as they recognised it as me.
Aside from that, there's been a few like bumping into old mates across the other side of the country at events/raves etc. Or saying stuff like "do you remember, blah blah blah" to someone and then it appears on tv/sign or whatever.
About ten years ago, I was walking through a town centre, for some reason I started thinking about an old school mate and how nice it would be to catch up at some point. I hadn't seen the said person for a few years and I turned a corner and (literally) bumped into him!
I was in a busy newsagents in my old home town, they had those cards that you can record yourself on. For some reason I decided to pick one up and record myself doing an impression (can't rem who it was). Anyway, about a two months later, I got a call from my best friend (who lived about 10 miles away), he had been in my town and popped into the newsagents to buy something and him and another of my friends happened to pick up the card and play the message back, both totally stunned as they recognised it as me.
Aside from that, there's been a few like bumping into old mates across the other side of the country at events/raves etc. Or saying stuff like "do you remember, blah blah blah" to someone and then it appears on tv/sign or whatever.
Nothing major but quite frequently i could be talking to a mate and say oh il give such and such a call see what there doing/coming for a drink and that and at that exact moment i pull my phone out they ring me.
I went to do the same thing the other day. Picked up my mobile to ring work to say i was stuck and couldnt get in and they rang me as I was dialling the number to say it was to dangerous to come in for me
I went to do the same thing the other day. Picked up my mobile to ring work to say i was stuck and couldnt get in and they rang me as I was dialling the number to say it was to dangerous to come in for me
just let out a little bit of wee!
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I've had quite a few good ones but here's a couple -
1) About 6 years ago I was unpacking my wife's new phone, put the battery in and 1 minute later it rang so I answered.
The guy on the other end just started talking "Paul, we're coming your party tonight but I can't work out where you live. You say you live in **** village and you turn by the pub, go down a thin lane past a little pond and your house is in front blah blah blah".
At that point I stopped him and said that it wasn't Paul but I may know who he was talking about.
We confirmed that it was my drummer at the time and he had rang the very last digit wrong.
What were the chances of that?
2) My mate wasn't Ebay literate and had seen some Stoke City DVDs for sale and asked me if I would order them for him.
The bloke who drove me to work asked if I could find out if an old BBC Horror series was now on DVD (Tales Fromn The Crypt!!) so I said I would look.
The first coincidence was that the bloke selling the SCFC DVDs (and loads of other team DVDs) also sold the BBC one.
I then asked for his address where I could send the cheque and this was the best.
(The numbers have been changed)
One of my mates lived at 100 Smithpool Road, Fenton and the other mate lived at 50 Smithpool Road, Fenton but the seller lived at 90 Smithpool Road, Fenton
What were the chances of that?
1) About 6 years ago I was unpacking my wife's new phone, put the battery in and 1 minute later it rang so I answered.
The guy on the other end just started talking "Paul, we're coming your party tonight but I can't work out where you live. You say you live in **** village and you turn by the pub, go down a thin lane past a little pond and your house is in front blah blah blah".
At that point I stopped him and said that it wasn't Paul but I may know who he was talking about.
We confirmed that it was my drummer at the time and he had rang the very last digit wrong.
What were the chances of that?
2) My mate wasn't Ebay literate and had seen some Stoke City DVDs for sale and asked me if I would order them for him.
The bloke who drove me to work asked if I could find out if an old BBC Horror series was now on DVD (Tales Fromn The Crypt!!) so I said I would look.
The first coincidence was that the bloke selling the SCFC DVDs (and loads of other team DVDs) also sold the BBC one.
I then asked for his address where I could send the cheque and this was the best.
(The numbers have been changed)
One of my mates lived at 100 Smithpool Road, Fenton and the other mate lived at 50 Smithpool Road, Fenton but the seller lived at 90 Smithpool Road, Fenton
What were the chances of that?
