Spoooky CoincidenceB3ta's very own Fraser was once a cycle courier. On one job out to docklands his radio gave out, so he had to find a public phonebox to ring back to base.
He'd just located one when it began to ring. Picking it up, it was (obviously) a wrong number, but Fraser recognised the voice. Turned out it was a mate of his he hadn't seen for ages.
What spoooky* coincidences have you encountered?
* spoooky should always have three o's. 100% fact
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chthonic, Thu 8 Feb 2007, 14:07)
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CoincidenceWent on holiday to France with my parents a few years ago (when I was still at uni). In the airport on the way there my parents got talking to another couple in the check-in queue who were off somewhere else, they had their daughter with them. The daughter´s best friend turned out to be the daughter of one of my lecturers at uni. Ok you say....
Next, we got to our hotel, a place we´d stayed in on a few previous holidays so we knew a few of the staff. One of them starts chatting to me and asks me what I´d been up to in the previous 12 months.
"I´m studying *subject* at Newcastle Uni," replied ComplexStuff.
"Really? There´s a girl staying in the hotel this week and I think she´s studying *subject* at Newcastle too..." replied rather amazed staff member - It was quite a small hotel with maybe 40 guests tops.
So I get introduced to this girl who, it turns out, is indeed studying the same subject as me but is in the year below me.
"Oh, my girlfriend is in your year, I wonder if you know her, her name is *ComplexStuff´s Ex*..."
It turns out that this girl I was on holiday with in a little hotel in France was in the same seminar group as my girlfriend. So we get chatting....
A guy comes over us and says to girl: "are you in the rowing society at Newcastle Uni?"
"Yes!" replied stunned girl, "how do you know that?!?"
"I was sat on your table at the Christmas ball" replies boy. He too was studying at Uni in Newcastle!!!
At this point we were having the `Oh My God what are the odds` conversation.
Rowing girls mother comes over to talk to her. Moments later ComplexStuff´s mother comes to talk to him. ComplexStuff´s mother looks at Rowing girl´s mother and says: "Oh My God! Rowing girl´s mother!"
Turns out Rowing girl used to live in ComplexStuff´s hometown (Liverpool) years ago and at that time her mum had been friends with ComplexStuff´s mum but they´d lost touch since Rowing girl´s family moved away! So, also turned out that Rowing girl had been friends with some people ComplexStuff went to school with before he moved away to Uni!
There my tale ends but it was pretty crazy working out all those links at the time! Small world indeed!
Apologies for length - we could barely believe it!
(, Fri 9 Feb 2007, 22:08, Reply)
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