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1. ballsofcottonwool - Member

   Went to an interview at Birmingham uni, was standing in the queue for lunch and recognised they guy in front as someone I'd met on holiday 2 years before.

   My daughter made friends with a little girl she met on holiday in Fuertaventura, got chatting with her parents and discovered they lived in the next village from my parents. the little girls mum was about my age so asked if I knew anyone from her school, I mentioned a girl who I was mates with and it turned out to be her cousin!

   Was on a 2 week holiday in the Ardeche one summer with my fiancee, we went sport-climbing on one day and ended up parked next to some mates from my Uni climbing club who had retreated from their mountaineering trip to the Alps becuase of thunderstorms.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. smuttiesmith - Member

   What a coincidence that, when viewed from the Earth, the Moon is the same size as the Sun. Makes an eclipse worth watching just for that
   That's deliberate, not coincidence...

   Its not deliberate and it is only coincidence at the moment. The moon is constantly moving away from earth so there will be a point at which total solar eclipses are no longer possible.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. BigJohn - Member

   I remember a couple of days after Richard Wright died I got out of the car at home, but the CD was still playing.

   Except it wasn't, it was a bloke in a car with the winddow open, playing the same Floyd track as I had been.

   Hardly surprising that a couple of middle aged guys would have the same idea then was it?

   Its not deliberate

   
   It is deliberate. I know the chap who did it and you wouldn't want to get on the dark side of him.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. penguinni - Member

   A friend and I were reminiscing one evening and he mentioned an old girlfriend of mine. I went on to say that despite living in the same small town I had not seen or heard of her in well over a year. At that exact moment my phone rang and it was that girl. She said she had just been thinking about me and had called for a chat. I was speechless.

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. Cougar - Member

   An old friend who I've not seen in, oh, ten years at least, popped up on Facebook a month or two back. We swapped pleasantries, turns out he still lives locally.

   A week later, I'm out on the bike down the canal towpath, and bumped into him coming the other way.

   Of course, coincidences always seem pretty wild till you think of how many times a coincidence doesn't happen. The odds of winning the lottery are infinitesimal, yet someone wins it regularly away.

   It is deliberate. I know the chap who did it and you wouldn't want to get on the dark side of him.

   God's to-do list

   DAY 1: create light.
   ...
   DAY 4: create light source.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. bassspine - Member

   it's tragic magic, there are no coincidences but sometimes the pattern is more obvious.

   (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. Zedsdead - Member

   I kind of have one.

   A girl I was seeing... we split up and a while later I was riding my BMX through town and bumped into her.. one thing led to another and we are now married and have 3 kids. Seems like fate...

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. Zedsdead - Member

   "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band"

   My old man introduced me to them. Brilliant!

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. elliott-20 - Member

   One summer holiday on the Isle Of Wight, as kids, friendships were forged with the kids of another family that were one the same beach every day. When our parents got talking we discovered the other family recently had brought a house off other family friends.

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. iDave - Member

    2 years ago at my parents house in Ireland, I was showing my daughter some of my A Level art. There was a portrait I painted of another guy in the school. Later that day we drove to a beach 60 miles away, walked down the steps and that bloke was there with his family. I hadn't seen him for 25 years.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. Kunstler - Member

    Which one of you is Kevin Bacon?

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. loneomen - Member

    i have 2 that i can remember well;

    about 4 years ago i was stood at the fence around ground zero in New York on holiday visiting my Dad when i turned to look around the crowd and a friend from school was stood right next to me! i had been talking to him not 1 week before hand!

    On a lads trip to Gran Canaria in my last year of school we were walking along heading to a bar when we walked between a bus and the front of a hotel when a group of 4 girls that we knew from school walked across the front of us.

    It's amazing that no matter how far away you are, you can still cross paths by coincidence with people you meet everyday, and the timing seems to be split second, a little either way and you would have missed them.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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