Weird/funny coincidences in your life

[kutuz_off]

My brother was set up on a blind date with this this girl and started dating her. They decided to move in together after a year. During all kinds of documents processing, it turned out that our mother was very good friend with her mother 25 years ago in a different country that no longer exists. There were no contacts between them during that time. My mom started telling stories how when his baby-stroller broke, she would borrow the one from his now-wife's mother, how they shared same milk producer, and so on. The girl was sobbing "please tell me you're not my brother", etc.

I just rented a new apartment in Manhattan. First email from my new landlord revealed that her cousin is a coworker of mine who was kind enough to provide a letter of reference to me.

[suzzer99]

That is pretty cool Bob.

Most of mine seem to be travel related:

I ran into a girl a knew from KC in the Narita airport in Tokyo. I saw her coming a long way away, so when she noticed me I just said "hey what's up", very casually. Her jaw dropped to the floor. That was fun.

My dad just visited his estranged brother, whom he hadn't seen in 25 years. The only reason this happened his his brother's best friend happened to be in Positano, Italy (where our family is from) at the same time me and my Dad were visting. Here's the full story if anyone's interested.

A good friend of mine in LA I know through two different unrelated friends from Kansas City. So if either connection wasn't there, I would still know her through the other one.

I can name at least 50 people scattered around the country, including some of my good friends in LA, who all know each other solely due to a connection made between me and another group while I was in SF. The lynchpin of this conncection is a quiet, often drunk, always broke waiter I used to work with, that no one even knows that happened to anymore. For some reason it always freaks me out to think of that.

[tx4allthefish]

I had a few big deadlines coming up at work and was very underprepared.
I had been half-thinking about how I could get out of them but I dont
have the front to out-and-out lie so I would usually get through somehow.

Yesterday I accidently tripped down a single step and broke my ankle.
6 weeks off work with a plaster cast!

Tx.

[AZK]

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I had a few big deadlines coming up at work and was very underprepared.
I had been half-thinking about how I could get out of them but I dont
have the front to out-and-out lie so I would usually get through somehow.

Yesterday I accidently tripped down a single step and broke my ankle.
6 weeks off work with a plaster cast!

Tx.

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uh, that kinda sucks?

[tx4allthefish]

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uh, that kinda sucks?

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Yeah I wasnt classing it under "funny".

I made it almost 40 years w/o ever breaking a bone
despite cycling to/from work every day in major UK cities.

[Gray Swan]

In the September 05 2+2 magazine there was an article by Ed Miller targetted at young poker players who had recently made huge amounts of money at high stakes limit HE. I had made 200k over that summer at 50/100 and 100/200 and was only 17, so it was very relevant to me.

One of the things he warned against in the article is having no protection against a disaster scenario, such as getting cancer. He mentioned how several friends who played had caught it and the problems it caused them. I remember remarking to friends about how ridiculous this was, as the chance of getting it as a teenager is extremely low.

I was diagnosed one month later.

[dudeoflife]

My brothers birthday is 5/2/1981, mom moms is 6/2/1950, mine is 7/2/1983. My gf's is 8/2/1980 and when we broke up for a month a girl i was seeing birthday was 8/2/1984.

[RUFFNECK]

I have a few this is my best one though.

In college 95', UNC beats Kentucky to get to the Final Four, Franklin Street is rocking.

I decide to head back to the dorm. I am walking around to the lot to get some cds out of my car behind the dorm, my car was brand new and a graduation present from my parents. I get to my car to see someone has taken a magnum of champagne smashed up my hood, cracked my windshield and has shot shaving cream out over a few cars including mine.

I look up to obviously a bunch of people partying in a dorm room and I see another champagne bottle come shooting out of the window as well as shaving cream. I start running around the building to the entrance to go "kick someones ass", when I run into my RA and tell him what is up with my car. He surveys the damage then gets a campus officer and they head up to the dorm room.

Another officer takes my statement, my room is in the other building so I don't even see who the people are in the room. I hear some of the dudes partying in the dorm room get kicked out of school. I honestly don't even think about it again for years.

6 years later, I'm down in Atlanta, another resident has a little mixer party at his house for all the new people. He introduces me to his neighbor Mark, my fellow resident says "Mark here is a Tarheel, just like you!" I get to talking to Mark we realize we were in school at the same time, we lived in the same dorm at one point.

He then tells me he got kicked out of school for a year for underage alcohol, possession of weed and vandalism of some [censored] car, on the night Carolina beat Kentucky to go to the Final Four. He says it was all a mistake about messing up the car they were just partying, but the guy didn't even have the decency to come up work it out and just called the campus cops on them. Got him and some other dudes busted, but he got the worst of it because it was his room.

I stood there stunned and wondered if I should tell him it was me. I went ahead and told him, he did believe me until about a week later he had his dad look up the paper work on when they kicked him out of school and it had my name in the file with the damaged car. We ended up becoming pretty good friends during my stay in Atlanta and would watch UNC games together.

Christ that was long.

[MicroBob]

ruffneck - I like that one. Really freaking weird.

[prohornblower]

Mine are usually travel-related as well. I remember faces and am pretty observant.

1) Was in Disney World (from Missouri) and saw a girl from my school getting onto a passenger train/trolley thing smack dab in the middle of DW. She was sort of popular and hot, so I was too much of a loser to say anything.

2) was vacationing in Port Aransas, TX (near Corpus Christi) Senior year of HS from Houston, TX. Out on balcony of hotel room and below me walks by this dude from my gym class. He looks up and gives this nonchalant wave and says "whats up man?" I was like "WTF...yeah...whats up?"

3) Just went to SF with gf earlier this month from Houston. Two homosexual males were in front of me at airport for an hour trying to find out where their plane was(their flight ended up getting cancelled, mine didnt, lol).

Cut to: We're in SF and walking by Union Square I see one of the guys puffing on a [censored] in Union Square. I nudge gf "there's that gay dude from the airport" "No way." "yeah." "That guy is wearing sunglasses and totally different clothes." "It's him"

Then cut to 2 days later we're leaving Alcatraz and the new boat is coming to drop off people, when lo and behold him and his partner walk right by us. I nudge her again "See there he is again, and taht's his partner (who looked completely similar to airport)" "OMG U R RIGHT ZOMG WHY R U OBSESSED WITH GAI DUDES WITH HUDGE BULGES ZOMG"