Life's little coincidences

edwardw

We were on holiday in Lanzarotte last year,
I had seen this family in the bar area, i knew their faces from somewhere, they kept staring at me, i kept staring at them.
couldnt for the life work out where i knew them from!
Anyway, mrs and little one are in Asda the week after when were home, a lady taps her on the shoulder, and says have you just come back from Lanzarote? How strange!

browneyedbazzi

I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere in western Canada and moved to the UK when I was in my early 20s. A few years after moving here I was at Manchester airport queuing to get on a flight for a holiday and recognised a voice in the queue...it was a girl I'd gone to school with years before and who it turned out had also moved to the UK and lived just a few miles away.

marisco_2

aliasojo wrote: »

Ever get the feeling someone is trying to tell you something?

I think someone could be trying to tell you to head home to the highlands.

Oddly enough a message came up on my facebook account today, that was very apt to things that have been going on recently. The last line 'it is only when you accept everything you are, and aren't, that you will truly succeed' really hit home and has made me re-evaluate where I am at.

Just like yourself it feels like a funny coincidence and as if someone is trying to tell me something.

tiger_eyes

I used to work as a mystery shopper calling insurance companies to get quotes. Every day I was given a profile of an imaginary person, complete with fictitious name, but real address. I went through the same script with every call until one day ...

Me: I live at Address in City I've Never Been To.
Person: Oh, I grew up on that street! I haven't been there in years. What's it like now?
:eek:
Me: ... There's a lot more traffic these days.

She never realised.

meames_2

I moved into a flat in London, it was empty when we looked around. At the time I was looking for another job and registered with some agencies. I rang one to tell them my new phone number. As I read out the number agent said "is that xx Whatever street?". Turns out he was the previous tenant of my new flat!

TimBear

Some of these are quite spooky!

claire16c

TimBear wrote: »

Something I always notice is whenever I go on holiday, I almost always see someone I recognise from 'back home'. I usually don't know them, just recognise the face, so it's strange that out of all the holiday destinations in the world, two people from the same place would choose to go exactly there at the same time!

I was once in the sea in the south coast near my grandparents, looked up and a girl from my school was swimming near me!

Another time I was in San Fran with my parents when I was around 14, sat having dinner, my Mum said 'look at the table next to us thats Ben from your primary school'! I couldnt believe it.

Then 2 years ago I was backpacking in Fiji, spent an evening talking to one girl, then the next day we were on the ferry going to the next island up together, so we got chatting again. It turned out she is from the same town as me, her parents know my husband though work and we have a mutual friend!

What freaked me out was I started thinking, if we hadnt been on the ferry going to the same resort the next day, we would have spent the previous evening talking but never found this out - and that made me think, how many other people have I spoken to that I just didnt know this stuff about?

Oh and when we were in Oz, visiting 'ramsey st' one of the English guys on the tour with us, went to a school near me and knew of my friends brother who went there. Just strange!

My aunt & uncle were in Oz last year and checked into a B&B, and met a couple, got chatting and found that the man worked in the same company as my uncle - theyd both taken early retirement and thats why they were both there on a long holiday.

Its a small world!

scotnan

When my mum was in hospital years ago I went up one time to visit and she was sleeping so I went to get a drink and on the way back an elderly lady in a neighbouring bed to my mum's starting chatting to me. She said that my mum had mentioned to her where me and my family lived and she said that her sister used to stay in that same street, long time ago when the houses were first built and told me her sister's name, turned out she had the same surname as me (my married name) and then she asked me what number I stayed in, and she said that her sister had stayed in that very same house.
As we had a laugh about the coincidence, she mentioned her sister's son by name and I told her that was my son's name too.

What a coincidence right enough lol

ljw2701

In the early 80's I lived in Aberdeen and went out with a guy who's Mum had abandoned the family when he was 2 and his sister 5 - he'd only seen her once when he was 15 apparently so minimal contact.

Anyway, years after we broke up I moved to Edinburgh and got a job in a Post Office. One day I served a chatty lady who said she was posting her son's shoes to him which he'd left after a weekend visit. As I took the parcel through I noticed the very unusual name of my ex-boyfriend on the box with his Aberdeen address!

RedBern

My daughter went travelling to SE Asia a couple of years ago and spent some time travelling with a girl from Staffordshire she met in Thailand. They visited an Internet cafe, and my daughter logged onto her Facebook account. The other girl had finished her Internet time, and sat by my daughter and said 'why have you got Sara xxx on your friends list?' My daughter said, "I lived with her when I was at uni' and the girl said 'but she's my best friend from primary school,'! Spooky.