Remarkable Coincidences That Will Leave You Speechless
I randomly met a boy on the beach while visiting my grandmother. I was 10, he was 14. I’m American, he’s English.
Years later, I’m on a message board trying to find out if Dead Like Me is coming back. Begin conversation with a random guy on a message board. It’s him.
We meet up and get married within months. 20 years and 3 kids later… © HmNotToday1308 / Reddit
I was selling 2 baby car seats, well-known brand, not cheap. A blue one and a red one, for twins. No one was buying them for a few months, and then 2 different people wrote to me on the same day, wanting to come for the seats.
I even asked the man, “Wasn’t it your wife writing to me?” “No,” he said. 2 strangers came at the same time, the man took the red one for the girl and the woman took the blue one for the boy. I still don’t understand how they got so synchronized. © EmilyaM / Pikabu
Dislocated my knee once on a ski slope. A guy named Michael shared his elastic bandage, saying, if you have a chance, give it back to me. I returned to the city, the knee was okay in a couple of weeks. I rolled up the bandage and put it on the table next to the exit.
I was going for a walk with my girlfriend in the spring (a couple of months later), we went by tram to the other end of the city, and before leaving I put this bandage in my pocket for some reason. When we got to the stop we needed, I saw through the window that Michael was standing there. We’re getting off, he’s getting into the tram. I meet him, give him the bandage with the words, “Michael, here’s your bandage,” and we go on. © StivMalder / Pikabu
Once I went on a business trip and my luggage was lost, first on the connecting flight and then at the final destination. 2 of my colleagues had the same problem. As we were leaving the airport empty-handed, my colleague pointed to the nearest bushes and sarcastically said, “Your bag is probably lying there somewhere.”
I look, and there it is! And not a single thing was missing from there. I still don’t understand how this could happen.
When I was in college in Texas (back in the early ’90s), I took a summer trip to England. My flight left on the last day of classes. I had an English paper due that day, and the professor insisted that it was due in his box by noon. Of course, I procrastinated, and didn’t turn it in until 1:00 (and mine was the only paper in there).
I was sure I had screwed up, but I had to go catch my flight. I got to London and the next day I was on the Tube, telling my friend that I was sure I had failed the class because the professor never got my paper. “It’s going to be hanging over my head the entire trip,” I said. “There’s no way I’ll know if he got my paper.”
We arrived at our stop, the doors opened and there was my professor, waiting for the train. “Professor X! Did you get my paper?” “Uh… yes, yes, I did.” “Great, thanks,” I said, and went on to enjoy my holiday. © tadhg555 / Reddit
My friend met a girl at a party: she caught her eye because they had the same things — phones, handbags, bracelets… They chatted and laughed about the amazing coincidence that both of them had been given these things by their boyfriends. And then they jokingly showed the pictures of their boyfriends to each other, and it turned out they had the same boyfriend. He dated the first girl for 3 years and the second one for a year, and he just took 2 sets of gifts at a time. © Caramel / VK
Went for coffee with a potential new housemate with 2 other confirmed housemates. Get chatting to the potential new housemate, and find out she’s from Spain. One of my confirmed housemates is from Spain, and asked where she was from.
Long story short, they’re from the same town, went to the same school, and lived streets away from each other. Further conversation reveals that they were actually part of the same group of friends when they were really young kids, and their parents used to hang out together. And they both coincidentally left Spain at the same time, to go to the same (not very well known or big) university, and nearly ended up living together! © daisychaingirl93 / Reddit
Sometimes a coincidence isn’t a coincidence at all
For a year, I’ve had a problem: as soon as I tell my mom about another suitor, he immediately stops communicating with me. I thought it was a coincidence, but after breaking up with the fifth guy I started to think that “happiness loves silence,” became almost paranoid, but everything turned out to be simpler. My mother would find out the phone numbers of my suitors, called them and set the condition — “either you marry my daughter or stop communicating with her.” © Overheard / Ideer
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