Life's little coincidences

Mrs_Ryan

Theres a couple spring to mind - when I was at secondary school, I got given a Latin book. These books had been in the school for years and inside was a slip of paper bearing the name and class of the previous users of the book... and there was my older sister's name who had left the school just as I was starting 1st year.

Another was when I worked in a call centre. I took a call from someone who lived in the same area as my ex - my ex's family were quite well known in the area as his Dad ran a newsagent's and his Mum worked behind the counter as did my ex. I just happened to mention it and it turned out to be I think the Mum of one of the paperboys and I think she actually knew of me... weird.

Ames

Not personal to me but a few years ago I was staying in a hostel in Paris. An American backpacker came in and got chatting to the two of us who were there, and then another American came in. They soon realised they were at the same uni and had a few mutual friends, but had never met before then.

claire16c

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A girl I went to Uni with in France added me on Facebook last year. At Uni, we had a year abroad - I spent mine in Edinburgh, she spent hers in Australia (1999)

After Uni, I went to live in Edinburgh, stayed in a youth hostel with lots of backpackers (2001). Met a guy call J****, who was from Australia and became friends, but lost touch when he went travelling.

When she added me on Facebook (2012), I had an idle look at her friends list. Yup. J**** was on it, they had met when she was in Oz, 13 years earlier. So when I met him, he actually already knew her.

That reminds me of another story.

Another backpacker I met in fiji who lives miles away from me, when I got home, I noticed she was mutual friends - and in the wedding photo, of a work colleague of my husband!

I messaged them and it turned out they had met each other when theyd both been travelling in Oz.

The work colleague went home and got married, whilst she carried on travelling to fiji where I then met her.

I know they say backpackers all take the same route, but it seems like they really do!

FattyBettyBoo

A couple of years ago I was paying for something with a £20 note and got a £10 note change ... with my phone number written on it.

Took a while to realise but about 5 years previously I had been chatting to a lovely guy on a night out and he had asked for my number (before the days of mobile phones). He had nothing to write it on so wrote it on a £10 note!

mrsgreenwood_2

before my mum married my dad, her surname was Greener, my dad was Green. 14 yrs after im born i meet a boy at my secondary school, his surname Greenwood. 12 years later, we are married with 2 kids. (greener-green-greenwood :cool:)

also looked at an old school photo (the one with the whole primary school) and me, and my husband were stood next to each other when i was about 7 and he was about 8 yrs old.
he was in the year above so never actually met until i was in year 9 secondary school, also, we only met each other because he happened to change school buses, from his onto mine.

also, we both have a nephew born on the same day, in the same month, in the same year who went to school together when they were little. we never knew until we went out that i had actually been round his sisters house with mine and his nephew when we were younger.

its like we were meant to be together or something?? :think:

oh yeah, and all that time he lived just round the corner from me and i never knew

big5

On my first day at university I got chatting to a guy while we were standing in the registration queue. I asked where he was from and he gave me the name of a village, adding "you won't have heard of it, it's near Aberdeen". I said I knew a family that lived there - they'd lived around the corner from me until I was 6 and I'd been friends with the eldest son. Turned out this guy was best mates with the childhood friend I'd not seen in 12 years.

sali_mali

I went travelling around Nepal and india a couple of years ago. Around a month into the trip, I'd made it to the middle of a Nepalese jungle and was on the back of an elephant about to cross a crocodile infested river, feeling very adventurous and far away from the world, when a bloke I went to uni with went past me on a canoe down the river!

I nearly fell off my elephant!

Ames

A couple of years ago I went to a barbeque organised by the local tenants association and got talking to another resident's mum who was over for the day from Scarborough. I told her I grew up in Scarborough and it turned out she grew up round the corner from me - you could see her house from mine (although we were a few decades apart). I thought she looked familiar, and after she'd gone I heard someone say their surname. She'd said she was a teacher, and I realised she was a supply teacher we'd had in year 5 for one day who was so crap I still remember it.

ladybez

My brother works in computers in the UK. last year he had to go out to Australia to interview some new clients. Hi first contact was a chap called Martin, his second Keith, both in the same city. When he got there, it transpired that Martin was in his class at school! A few days later he met Keith, he had also been in my brothers class at school. Keith did not know Martins office was just around the corner from his, so the 3 of them met up for a "Chat" (I read this as drinking session). The 3 of them had not seen each other since leaving primary school 40 years previously!

partialycloudy

My husband and I meet at work a few years ago and upon getting to know each other we relised we had also worked in the same office in previous jobs but for different companies but our paths hadn't crossed.