Life's little coincidences

alias*alibi

In my lifetime I have been out with lads who have had similar surnames; namely: Coleman, Colegrave, Collard and Cox!!!! Broke the spell and now a Mrs A.

samboette

aliasojo wrote: »

I defy anyone who says this isn't fate at work!

There are quite a few 'coincidences' regarding my OH and I! It's likely I 'met' him whilst at college as he was there at the same time and I became friends with a girl he went to school with and his friend used to go out with her, he and his mates (including my OH) used to come over at lunch time to hang out. Totally oblivious to all this until we got together!

There are also ones to do with his mum growing up near where I grew up, going to school with my aunt.

Ladyhawk

We moved to the town where I spent most of my childhood in 1987. We rented a house for 18 months before my parents found the house of their dreams. In 1989 (after we moved out) my mum became friends with a lady who 20 years later bought that original house. They only realised when my mum was invited round for a housewarming drink.

krlyr

Definately think life can throw a handful of fate at you.
Having had rumours of redundancy go around work, I updated my CV and had a little bit of a go at job hunting. Applied for a few positions I'd seen but didn't really go full throttle - I got moved at work in a way that meant my job was probably more secure anyway so it wasn't as if I *had* to get another job. I hadn't realised that the job site uploaded my CV for all the recruiters to see until I was bombarded with offers of positions I hadn't applied for. I went to remove it, but figured I'd just see what happened if I left my CV up, I screened the calls with my voicemail and not much came up that grabbed my attention.

However, after about a week and a half, one came up that was quite local and sounded alright, so I rang back about it, and the agency guy told me the company name "incase you've heard of them". Well, it just happened to be quite a well-known animal/dog related company that I have a personal interest in! Interview booked for the next working day, callback for a second interview the day after that, job offer the next day - perfect! It's sad leaving where I am now, but this new role really is made for me - they're super keen to support my studies (I'm halfway through a 3-year course now and they'll fund the third year), will train me up in the job, everyone gets involved in projects etc. so I may even be paid to go to events like Crufts, and even better - dogs are welcome in the office! I really couldn't have found a better job if I'd tried, and this one just plopped on my lap.

I'd never have considered looking for a role in a place like that - I always thought that my love of animals/dogs would purely be the hobby side of things, and my job would be just that, a job. But now I have the perfect blend, a position in the career I want to focus on (since starting my course I've really got my teeth into it) yet in a very 'doggy' kind of environment. And I automatically have to have something in common with every member of staff there, you couldn't really work in an office with half a dozen dogs wandering around if you weren't fond of dogs yourself!

suki1001

I have 2 wierd ones. One happened to me - another happened to a friends son.

The purse story:

I've always been a bit of a scatter brain and left a friend looking after my purse in a nightclub. It was stolen and throughout the week I kept getting things in the post. Someone sent my provisional license, the bank returned my bank card, because someone had tried to use it and then I got a phonecall from the police station in Bradford - about 30miles away from where I left my purse, saying they had my purse and could I come and collect it.

So off I went to Bradford surprised it had got that far. However, when I got there I discovered it was a purse I had left on a bus 2 years ago. Really strange the police should contact me on the very week I'd lost the other purse.
Anyhow, when I left this purse on the bus, someone wrote to me at the time explaining they had it and gave a time and place to meet. I didn't get the letter until after the date had passed because it had gone to my dad's address. There were no contact details and i thought I'd lost it forever. It turned out, the lad who had written to me had a brother who was a professional burglar and the police had raided the house and found my purse - I think they were hoping it could be classed as evidence, but clearly someone in the family was honest at least!

They were the only two purses I've ever lost as well.

My friend's son:

He went for a job interview at a HMV store. He was asked those sorts of questions such as what's you're favourite film. Being a bit of a b movie horror fan, he reeled off some spurious straight to video film, that most of us would have never heard of. The manager who was interviewing him, got a bit excited and explained he had been an extra in that film! Needless to say - he got the job!

jackieb

I was in a small shop in town and 3 of my old next door neighbours were in it at the same time. One of them was serving me, and the other 2 were in the queue behind me. One didn't even live in the same town. I think I must have a guilty conscious because I felt kind of bad because I moved away from all of them.

sparrer

I was shopping in the town I'd moved to when I was 8 years old, when a voice called me, using my maiden name. I turned around and a woman said she knew she wasn't mistaken, she recognised me as a pupil of hers in my first year of primary school some 100 miles away. She was visiting my town for a day, with no clue that I'd moved there 30 years previously!

tia86

My best friend from uni lives in the Midlands and I live in the South West, these events happened within a couple of months - can't remember which happened first.

My mum had gone to London with a friend and was buying a ticket at Paddington station when she suddenly heard a voice say 'hello Mrs X' - it was my best friend! We thought it was funny that they were both there at the same time despite neither living there.

The second event was the other way round. I live in a small town and was waiting at a pedestrian crossing. The car the stopped was my friends mum!

Very strange that we should bump into eachothers parent despite us living in different parts of the country.

olibrofiz

these are really interesting I often get texts or phonecalls from people at the moment i'm thinking of them - spooky. A couple of odd things i remember are:

i used to work with a lady in my 20's and when i left the workplace didn't keep in touch but heard about her from people i bumped into now and then. i'd heard she'd moved to norfolk from the midlands where i live. in my late 30's i was driving home from work one day and for some reason was thinking about her - i stopped at traffic lights and she walked round the corner with her dog :eek: i moved to a village, and found all her kids had moved to the same village

I went out with a chap, we both live in the midlands, turned out we were born in the same hospital a year and a day apart, not much of a coincidence except it was in the british military hospital in singapore - what are the odds on that!

This week we were in the car and listening to Wonderwall on an OASIS CD that I'd bought at the weekend. Halfway through the song I changed to the radio and we were :eek::eek: - it was playing on the radio at the exact point in the song i'd switched over at.

spooky, but fascinating

motherofstudents

beedeedee wrote: »

I think the word is "synchronicity" - but I'm trying not to show off......!
It's true there are some amazing coincidences going on.

That's it ! I knew it was something like that:)