Coincidences

Blisterman · 01-07-2010 10:24AM #1

So, what's the biggest coincidence to ever happen to you?

For me, it was when my younger brother bought a mobile phone off the shelf about 3 years after I got one, different network and everything. The last six digits were the exact same as mine. The odds of that happening are exactly a million to one.

orourkeda · 01-07-2010 10:32AM

I still havent thought of a witty response.

Hasmunch · 01-07-2010 10:34AM

Coincidence that joincidence with a C.

Coincidence.. i think not!!

01-07-2010 10:36AM

orourkeda wrote: »

I still havent thought of a witty response.

What a coincidence! Either have I!

Turtyturd · 01-07-2010 10:36AM

orourkeda wrote: »

I still havent thought of a witty response.

But thought you would up the post count anyway?

Coincidence's don't exist.

Dravokivich · 01-07-2010 10:37AM

I made a joke the other day and the punch line was "Get around" like the beach boys song... get around... then 1 of the lads started singing it... and sure enough... the DJ had it playing in the back ground.

None of us noticed it until that joke.

tony1kenobi · 01-07-2010 10:41AM

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

Archeron · 01-07-2010 10:42AM

I woke up this morning and thought "Hey, I'm gonna start a thread on boards today about coincidences, and see if anyone has any interesting stories to share". Lo and behold, I get onto the PC and someone has already done it!!

Spooky!!

alwaysadub · 01-07-2010 10:47AM

Dravokivich wrote: »

I made a joke the other day and the punch line was "Get around" like the beach boys song... get around... then 1 of the lads started singing it... and sure enough... the DJ had it playing in the back ground.

None of us noticed it until that joke.

Was that on Saturday night? Cos something like that happened then too!

Lando Griffin · 01-07-2010 10:56AM

Met a classy girl in a nghtclub once and straight away we started at it.
She went off to the toilet and after 15 minutes no sign.
I counted my losses, and went hunting and later while chating to another girl she turned around and said " My sister is shifting someone who just looks like you", and pointed into a dark corner. Sure enough when we went over there was your one that had gone to the toilet ages ago mauling the face of my brother.

mathie · 01-07-2010 10:57AM

I'm not a religous man but I found this one interesting...

Many years ago my mam was working for the St Vincent de Paul in one of the shops.
She managed to lose a large sum of money on the way from the shop to the bank.
She put up a 'lost money' notice and did a lot of praying to her favourite saint Martin de Porres.
She got a call that some money was found and to go to an address.
The name of the house was St Martin de Porres and lo and behold the money was there.

phill106 · 01-07-2010 10:59AM

I went into videostore to rent a movie, that was out a few years. Just came into my head that i would like to watch it.
When i get there, the only copy had just been rented...."Wait a minute, i rented it to you didnt i?" said the staff member.
"Not Me, can you check my account, in case someone has my details?"
He checks. Was not me that rented it.
It had been rented.....by.....my.....Identical....Twin!

So randomly both of us decided to rent the same video the same day, not a new release or anything, the movie was years old.

derfderf · 01-07-2010 11:09AM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

that reminds me of the time princess diana died. Every paper or channel i looked at, or person i talked to, was sayin the same thing, "princess diana has died". Then i found out marge was pregnant and pulled out most of my hair.

phill106 · 01-07-2010 11:10AM

Oh thought of another!

Going through old family photos, A photo is found showing me on holidays in ireland when i was about 8-10 years old. I lived in USA at the time.Im 31 now.
In the photo, I am at a staff party for the airport, and who is that familliar looking girl sitting next to me?
OMG It is my wife!
I had met her in my teens after I moved back, but obviously didn't know our paths had crossed before, and neither did she.

Spooky!

theboss80 · 01-07-2010 11:41AM

Me and my brother have the EXACT same surname, im pretty sure we grew up in the same town aswell.

BeeJazizWafuls · 01-07-2010 11:41AM

I found that there being 24 bottles of beer in a crate and 24 hours in a day a huge coincidence, great excuse, big coincidence

phill106 · 01-07-2010 11:44AM

theboss80 wrote: »

Me and my brother have the EXACT same surname, im pretty sure we grew up in the same town aswell.

Thats because your your mother didnt tell your dad about the postman or the milkman.....both times....

Dravokivich · 01-07-2010 11:45AM

alwaysadub wrote: »

Was that on Saturday night? Cos something like that happened then too!

It was yeah

Names were withheld due to er... not entirelly remembering who was around me at the time...

Superbus · 01-07-2010 11:50AM

My dad was renting a car in Italy once, and when he gave his ridiculously rare name to the Hertz person, they said that he'd already gotten his car. Turns out some Australian with the exact same name had just been!

Turned out he was some distant cousin. Funny, at the time at least.

massdebater · 01-07-2010 12:22PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Met a classy girl in a nghtclub once and straight away we started at it.
She went off to the toilet and after 15 minutes no sign.
I counted my losses, and went hunting and later while chating to another girl she turned around and said " My sister is shifting someone who just looks like you", and pointed into a dark corner. Sure enough when we went over there was your one that had gone to the toilet ages ago mauling the face of my brother.

Was shifting this ugly fella in a niteclub one nite for a bet. Once I realised that I won, I legged it to the toilet to hide, only reappearing when I was sure he was gone.

Seen this much better looking fella later on and took him to a dark corner. We put on another bet with my sister to see if she'd shift the ugliest fella in the place. Turns out she picked the same munter I shifted earlier and he happened to be brothers with my new "dark corner" guy!

What a coincindence! :pac:

Shanotheslayer · 01-07-2010 12:27PM

Don't believe in coincidence.

Abrasax · 01-07-2010 12:28PM

I Don't believe in coincidence.

Dudess · 01-07-2010 12:32PM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about him
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him

Don't ask me to talk about Bono, it doesn't work if you do it intentionally...

Dudess · 01-07-2010 12:33PM

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Don't believe in coincidence.

Abrasax wrote: »

I Don't believe in coincidence.

Still?

Dravokivich · 01-07-2010 12:35PM

Dudess wrote: »

- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about her

Who was she?

OutlawPete · 01-07-2010 12:37PM

It takes the earth 365 days to orbit the sun and yet, that is exactly the same amount of days in one full year.

Freaky.

Abrasax · 01-07-2010 12:38PM

Dudess wrote: »

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about her
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him

:eek:
Witch.

Actually I got one.
I was in India and took a train to a village about 2 hours outside Bombay, to deliver a package to the family of an Indian friend who lives in Dublin.
When I got off at the train station I shared a tuk-tuk with a Canadian-Indian girl who was visiting some relatives of in the same village.
Turns out we were both staying in the same hotel in Bombay.
A happy coincidence.

i.need.a.job · 01-07-2010 12:40PM

i always say things at the same time as other people.. even if its a pure random comment. or ill look at my phone an get a message. and i see the numbers 911 every single day some way or another.. in phone numbers, the time, reg's, anywhere.. yesterday it was on the tax disc of some ones car.. freaky. its been happenin for years now.

Dudess · 01-07-2010 12:40PM

Abrasax wrote: »

I shared a tuk-tuk with a Canadian-Indian girl

?

Dravokivich · 01-07-2010 12:42PM

i.need.a.job wrote: »

i see the numbers 911 every single day some way or another..

Happens to me too generally see it about twice a day... unless I look at a timetable...

Abrasax · 01-07-2010 12:42PM

Dudess wrote: »

?

A girl of Indian extraction who was raised in Canada.

Coincidences

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