Coincidences.....what are your strangest?

[vickster]

When I was in my teens we had a chocolate Labrador pup who came from a breeder in Sussex IIRC. Chocolate labs were much rarer than they seem to be nowadays (or maybe they are just common in Surrey, anyhow). Was on holiday with the parents in Cornwall I think, dog a few years old by then and we were on a beach. Another male chocolate Labrador came bounding up and the two beasts started play fighting like puppies. Well it turned out that they were from the self same litter! Ours was called Cadbury and the brother was called Buttons

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sitting opposite someone at a refectory table at a National Trust canteen in SE England and both going "OMG! Is that you, Nnnn?!?" We were at Uni in West Wales together 20+ years before. (She got a very good degree, I dropped out)
Went to Christchurch to visit friends. Plans fell through. Drove to Bournemouth. Went into a shop, held the door open for the folk coming out and it was Billy Morpeth and family, my late Uncle's best mate and golf partner, from Co. Durham. Whom I'd not seen for 10+ years.
Going into the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on a spur of the moment whim, stood waiting for the tour, tap on shoulder, someone I'd hired three years before who was doing 48hrs in Stockholm.

My fave - taking the Aged P (who had lived in Sussex since 1948) and my two children to Beamish Open Air Museum. Doing the "Going Underground" trip into the Drift Mine. "Where are you all from?" asks the gaffer. "Sussex" says we three. "Sussex" says the Aged P. "Not with that accent!" says the gaffer. "I wez borne in Sooth Mow-wah." says Aged P. "What's tha' name hinny?" asks the gaffer. "George Nnnnnn" answers Pa. "Good ta met tha'" is the reply. Gaffer carries on down the line. Stops. Turns. "Hang on a minute, tha's niver Jossie Nnnnnn's yoonga brootha?" "Why aye, bonny lad, phawee ya bugga, tha' ken wor Jossie?" "Hway fa slates, thas med me day!" Turned out the late Joe Nnnnnn (my Uncle, as mentioned in Bournemouth point above) taught the gaffer all he knew when the gaffer first went underground at the Craghead Busty, back when I was in short trousers. (All dead now, end of an era. Sobs.)

 

[CharlieB]

When I was about 3, I used to be taken on my tricycle to the local park with Alison, of similar age who lived next door by whichever of our parents happened to be available.
One unfortunate afternoon on the way back from the park, Alison’s parents dropped their guard on me for a second, and I went careering down the hill we lived on, straight into the brick gatepost in front of her house. Disintegrated jaw was in wire for a year, and the scar is still visible.
Roll on thirty years, and I’ve enjoyed many a lunch hour playing backgammon with a female colleague for probably at least eighteen months, before our conversation turned to exchanging childhoods. It’s Alison. That Alison.

 

[MarkF]

In 1991 I was travelling around the US. I kept trying to buy "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Jennifer Warnes in every city/town I went through, no luck, in months, shops would offer to order it for me but that was no good when I was always on the move via drive-a-way cars. Eventually I ran out of money and had to get a Greyhound bus from Omaha to New York (Via bleedin Chicago) for my flight home and it was not nice. I met a Danish girl and we sat together, we got talking, she said something like "I am sick of listening to this, what have you got"?, I gave her REM's Out Of Time and she passed me her cassette................yep.

Around that time I hadn't seen my next door neighbour for a while, let's call him Mick, his wife said Mick was "Working away". I took a cheap flight to Crete for a bit of sun, soon bored I hired a Kawasaki KLR250 and set about exploring Crete, of which I knew nothing. One day riding up and around switchbacks in the sun I got a reet surprise, my route was blocked by a glacier, that was news to me, snow & ice in Crete, I had no idea. I set off back and hit the first bar I came to to, just three of us in there then, me, Mick and his new woman.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Back in 1991, a mate I lived with wanted to go and see Dances With Wolves. As he was taxi and that meant I could drink, I offered to pay for his ticket. Anyway, he shouted upstairs that we should leave in 5 mins. I decided to put on the cassette (old tech for those under 20) player a suitable track about 5 mins long while I faffed about getting ready. I chose The Healer by John Lee Hooker but failed to find the tape, so ran out of the house without hearing it.
Jumped in car, put seatbelt on and as we pulled out, switched the radio on.....you can guess which track it was. Freaky in a Twighlight Zone kind of way..... And I doubled checked that I hadn't left the tape in the car stereo. In fact, I lost the damn thing.....

 

[gaijintendo]

Once, both my socks said the same day of the week.... ON THAT DAY!

 

[Profpointy]

on the tube one day reading a book and a date was mentioned in the book, the exact same date (month and day) i managed to get to that page on the said day! spooky

Was it your diary?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not really that odd
But

I was talking to one of our Ward Clerks a couple of mornings ago
I'm not sure how it came up in conversation, but Devon was mentioned (the county, not the 'Boss' in Knight-Rider)
She then told me she'd bought a book, & wanted to visit a certain Hotel in Devon

I have the same book, but she found out about via her liking for a certain authors detective stories, as one film (or TV?) adaptation was filmed at Hotel

I came to it, because I knew of the Hotel anyway, as I like that particular building style
I've been to the island, but not in it

It is 'Burgh Island Hotel'

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXYEXqPxVU



The book??
http://www.greatwhitepalace.co.uk/index.html

 

[iandg]

Visiting the loo at Cambridge folk festival at the same time as a guy who I was at Poly with (6 years after the course finished)

I met the same guy a few years later when I was coming off Tryfan after a day in the hills - He was dry stone walling as a leader on a BTCV course.

 

[gbb]

Years ago I was a buyer / administrator for an engineering dept in a food processing factory. I dealt with many suppliers and used to recieve shedloads of brochures and speculative approaches with a view to us buying from them.
One day I was given a brochure from a company in Northants, what service they were into I can't remember but as I flipped through the brochure, it had various photos of their equipment...and in one photo was a guy operating a machine......and it could have been me, same hairstyle, build, facial structure, everything ..identical, but it wasn't me.
Even my colleagues said it was me

 

[Sandra6]

I signed a petition once , and the guy noticed my address and said he'd lived there as a kid.
Not long after moving house I made friends with another mum and her husband had been born in the house we were living in.
When I first started using the internet I got talking to a lady, and we later discovered that I knew her sister because she lives on the same estate as my parents and used to work in the corner shop.
When the business I was working for went into liquidation the letters I got about my final pay etc were signed by a guy I'd gone to school with 20 years previously.
My daughter recently took a temp job in a school that I did my work experience in at 16 - that's not unusual, you may think, but we don't live in that part of the country.

 

[philk56]

We were at an open-air concert last weekend here in Perth WA. Met up and sat with some friends of a friend. Their son's future parents-in-law were with them, visiting from the UK. Started talking to them, to find that the future mother-in-law lived in the same Derbyshire village as my wife and went to the same school, a couple of years above her. She remembers her as she was the school's sports captain...

 

[captain nemo1701]

Yesterday (18/3/2018), I was chatting to a friend on the phone, with the telly muted, who mentioned he was off to Switzerland. I said that I too wanted to go there, in particular to Interlaken and visit the Jungfrau glacier & also go up Schilthorn, which has a restaurant at the top made famous in the 007 movie On Her Majestys Secret Service.

After the call, I flipped channels on the TV . Guess which movie was about to start........

 

[roadrash]

After the call, I flipped channels on the TV . Guess which movie was about to start........

the sound of music ??

 

[Dave7]

Yesterday (18/3/2018), I was chatting to a friend on the phone, with the telly muted, who mentioned he was off to Switzerland. I said that I too wanted to go there, in particular to Interlaken and visit the Jungfrau glacier & also go up Schilthorn, which has a restaurant at the top made famous in the 007 movie On Her Majestys Secret Service.

After the call, I flipped channels on the TV . Guess which movie was about to start........

I have been there twice...........absolutely beautiful.
I was there for work so wearing a suit & tie. Passing the ski lift and never having been in one I parked the car, paid the money and went up. It was a 2 man 'carriage' and part way up we got out and joined a 12? man carriage. Further up we got out and joined a 40? man carriage. Got to the top.........had a wander round then went to go back down........only to find there were about 6 different lifts going to 6 different locations and I have no idea which one I had come from.
Fortunately I was able to explain the problem and the guy showed me some aerial photographs...........I was able to see the right one. That was scary