What's the biggest coincidence that you've ever experienced?

freddy_knuckles · 6 months

In 2001, my family was vacationing in Hawaii. We were snorkeling in Maui and my dad took out his snorkel in the water. While taking it out he knocked his dentures out and they get lost in the ocean. We try to find them but no luck. So we leave the beach.

We come back the next day and to our surprise the dentures were sitting on a rock by where we were snorkeling. So my dad takes them, cleans them and starts to use them again.

5 years later, my sister starts dating a guy. One night, he tells us that he went to Hawaii a few years back. So we talk about Hawaii with him. He then says how one day him and his cousin found some teeth in the ocean. They started to play with them and throw the dentures at each other. Their parents get angry and tell the kids to put the teeth on a rock.

It was the same beach that my dad lost his dentures and the times line up. We were all blown away.

yakityyakblah · 6 months

Today, got a call stating I was hired for a new job, not ten minutes later my current employer calls to say I'm fired.

hamilmar8 · 6 months

Ok here we go. Second through fifth grade I rode the bus home everyday from school, I had the same bus driver everyday for all those years. The last day of fifth grade came and I moved five hours away... So on the first day of sixth grade I wake up to catch the bus at 6:30 in the morning, and when the bus doors open, there is my old bus driver. Turns out she moved to the same city that summer with her husband, but the chances of her having my route from second grade to eighth grade after moving almost 300 miles away completely blows my mind.

thats_that · 6 months

I had just gone to the gyno and gotten a year's worth of birth control. I had the prescription in my car and at some point it must have fallen out and into the street. I spent a few days looking for it because I didn't want to call the doctor for a new one. Four days after I'd noticed it went missing I went into my job at the time and a co worker handed the prescription to me. She said she had been out at the bars and when she was leaving her really drunk friend started picking up trash and random items from the street. She found the prescripton and read my name out loud and my coworker kept it to return to me. Yay for no babies.

BearPond · 6 months

I did a comedy podcast with a mate, and after three episodes we got our first and only ever bit of fan mail. It was from a Japanese dude which amazed us because I had been to Japan twice before and was planning to get there again in a few weeks. We read the fan mail on the next episode and answered his questions and that was pretty cool.

When I arrived in Tokyo, I shot off an email to the fan, saying I was in Tokyo. He replied saying he worked in Tokyo. I responded saying if he wants we can go for a drink and meet, he responded saying friday night was good. I was amazed that our one fan mail came from a guy who lived across the world in a city that i just happened to be visiting.

In the lead up to friday night I spoke to my podcast co-host and we had a joke about what kind of guy this might be. I had my money on it being a middle aged boring Japanese businessman, where Luke thought it would be a young arty-type student or a designer or something cool.

Friday rolls around and a few hours before the meeting I get an email saying 'this is what I look like so you can find me at the meeting spot!' I open the attachment to find a photo of a beautiful Japanese woman. Holy shit, I have a meeting with our only fan in a foreign city and it happens to be a hot woman. I feel like the luckiest sonnova bitch ever.

Cut to a month later, she is my girlfriend and I'm living with her in Japan. Later I would ask her how she found the podcast, she told me she searched for "Australia" on the podcast searching site. I thought back to the point, months earlier, when I was trying to think of tags for the show. I'd put "funny", "chat show", "stories", all those kind of obvious ones. Then I couldn't think of any more, but I still was allowed one more tag, so I just put "Australia", because I am Australian. Eh, that'll do, I thought, not realising I had just sealed my fate.

TooMuchPants · 6 months

On an episode of radiolab, they talked about a girl in England named Laura Buxton who let a balloon go with her name on it. It then landed 140 miles away and was picked by another girl named Laura Buxton. They also happened to be the same age...

Reddit_user-1 · 6 months

Last summer in London, England a member of the Qatari Royal Family was behind me in a Bugatti Veyron. The next day my friend from Texas Skype'd me and told me his friend, who was also in London had seen a Bugatti and that I should look for it(I'm from a small town and love cars, seeing exotic cars is some serious shit). He showed me a picture she had taken of the Bugatti, and my car was in front of it and you could see me turned around staring at the car.

It was mind-bottling

ocdad · 6 months

Dad got into a drunken bar fight while stationed in Korea, got stabbed in the back of his shoulder. I have a birthmark that's rectangular in the exact same area.

Sanijizz · 6 months

I played in a band back in 1993. Was 19 years old at the time. A girl i was in high school with, was at the college bar at one of our gigs that night. She introduced me to a friend of hers. We'll call her G.

Roll forward to earlier this year, i had been living out of town, and came home for one day to see my accountant, and to go watch my singer from that old band at a local bar. Get up to go take a piss, standing in the queue waiting, turn around and there is G. We chat while everyone walks passed us to use the toilets. Decide we'll go to dinner together to catch up.

Two weeks later, i come back down to town and we go to dinner together. We hit it off and have been together ever since.

Here's the kicker.

Turns out my mom knew her mom in 1974, when they were both pregnant. G and i were born two months apart. Our moms would chat and got along very well. My mom had in fact worked for the corporate that her father is now chairman of. Add to that the fact that her grandmother managed a store two shops over from my folks in the same mall, and G and i would run around the mall as toddlers.

Even though we may or may not have chased each other running around that mall, there is a certain romance to the idea that i had a crush on her when we were both 3 or 4 years old, and it took us 33 years to get together. When we did, it just fell into place.

TERRILP · 6 months

Every Fourth of July, my Grandmother would show us a newspaper article about two boys who had tried to make their own fireworks. The plan backfired and injured one of the boys. Ten years later, I had been dating a man for several weeks when we decided to go swimming. I noticed a big scar on his abdomen and I asked how he got it. You guessed it, he and his buddy were the young men in the article making their own fireworks.

Also, I found out that a very close friend who I had known for 25 years had been delivered by my great-uncle who was a doctor.

ballness10 · 6 months

My ex works as a telemarketer for various non-profit/campaigns. She uses an automatic dial system. She's one of 300 in this call center making calls to millions of people nationally. Her computer randomly selected and dialed my Mom 1500 miles away from her call center. I guess she nearly broke down at her desk. NO ONE had dialed someone they knew before.

Edit: grammar.

darren675 · 6 months

Got a good one...

My mother used to collect keyrings when she was younger and had a keyring of the 1972 Arsenal Football team, she dropped this going into her Formal (Prom in Ireland), my father picked it up as he was going to the same one and kept it, giving it to my auntie. About 5 years later they started seeing each other and my auntie was moving to America and found the keyring whilst going through some old stuff, seen my mother's name in it and promptly rushed downstairs to show them both....spooky

Willeth · 6 months

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freen69 · 6 months

My dad was a police officer and was shot in the head while investigating a domestic disturbance or something, this was about 5 or so years before I was born. Few years later when i was 9, my friend lived at the same house and his dog mauled my head, making me need 3-400 stitches. I didn't find out until much later that it was the same house my dad had his head injury and that was why he never wanted to drop me off or pick me up there.

hollowgodric · 6 months

My brother and I were talking about names before we got our cat. We knew we were going to get a female cat, so we were throwing around girls names. I desperately wanted to name the cat Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. My brother refused because he had read Artemis Fowl and firmly believed that it was a boy's name and wouldn't let me name the cat Artemis.

So we get the cat, already named Sweetie. She was up for adoption because she was found on the street with her babies and when they put her in the shelter her babies were adopted and she became depressed and they were going to put her down. A cat foster woman saved her and we adopted Sweetie from her. When we adopted Sweetie I was extremely depressed and whenever I was extremely sad Sweetie would lick my head for hours. She was my biggest support and, truly, my hero. My cat means everything to me.

So anyway, a few months later I was looking at papers from the shelter (for some reason they lay unread for a while...) and it had her stats and stuff-many of the things on the sheet weren't mentioned when we adopted her and I wanted to learn more about my cat. The first thing I see on the paper is a space for the cat's name.

It was Artemis.

Edit: I know this whole thing is one fucking huge run on sentence. Too lazy to fix it.

Hwy280 · 6 months

My husband and I were looking for a place to live and put in an offer on a foreclosed house. The next day I was sitting at a bar, chatting with the guy next to me, and come to find out it was his house that was foreclosed upon. I was floored.

We got the house and we kept in touch with the guy until he moved out of the country...he'd let us know about the house's little quirks, etc. and we'd hold on to his mail for him to come pick up every once in a while.

aminal · 6 months

When I graduated high school, a group of friends and I went to the Bahamas to celebrate and to take advantage of the 18 year old drinking age.

While at a club one night near our hotel, we decided to take a cab back to our rooms. The way they handle this is just to pile as many people as then can into the vans, and start driving. So as we're waiting to leave and more people are piling in next to us, a girl turns to me and says "Is your name aminal?" and I replied yes, not knowing who she was. Turns out she was a friend of mine from way back when. We proceed to hang out with her and her friends for the remainder of the trip.

One day we're all drinking by the pool and this girl runs into a few people she knows. One of these guys, lets call him "Gums" has a very distinct facial feature. We all chatted for a while, had some drinks, yada yada, day moves on and I never see them again. And suddenly the trip is over. I never run into this girl or her friends ever again.

A few years later we're all off to our respective colleges and one of the guys I went to the Bahamas with brought some of his college buddies back to our home town. We party. While we're partying, who do I run into? I run into Gums. Fucking Gums.

My friend befriended Gums in college. Here's where it gets weird. They did not know they had been in the Bahamas together. By random chance they became good friends in college not knowing they had met years earlier. I filled in that history.

tl;dr: Gums was very confused when I knew details of his high school graduation trip.

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thetunewillcome · 6 months

My younger sisters are twins, and when they were toddlers, they went through matching outfits like crazy. My mom answered an ad in the newspaper for twin clothes and the lady called her. After an hour chatting on the phone, the woman said, "I hope the sizes work for your girls. My Heather is a little smaller than my Catherine."

Mom: "...Your what?

Lady: "My Heather is smaller than my Catherine."

My sisters' names are Heather and Catherine, and Heather, as a toddler, was always smaller than Cat.

Fast forward roughly 18 years. I work at a bank half an hour from where my mom lived when the whole twin-clothes thing happened. One of our customers is this wacky guy who always makes my day with his weird smiles and friendly small-talk. He talks about his daughters all the time, who are twins and just went off to college last year. I tell him my sisters are getting ready to apply; we chat about colleges. He says, "My Heather is going to [school x] and my Catherine is going to [school y]."

Me: "...Your what?"

Man: "My Heather and my Catherine."

Me: "My sisters are Heather and Catherine twins, as well!"

Man: "Cool! Goodbye."

His next visit, he comes in all excited: "They say you learn something new every day. Ready? Your mom is [my mom's name] and she lives in [town] and your dad does [this for a job] and my wife used to sell your mom twin clothes when our kids were little. I never met your mom, but my wife still talks about her and that crazy phone call where they realized their twins shared the same names."

Me: .......

Disclaimer: The second coincidence happened on the other side of a fairly-large city than the first, so it's not as if this was a small community.

tl;dr: 18 years ago, my mom met this woman whose twins have the same names as my sisters, and then a couple months ago, I met this woman's husband totally by coincidence.

medicmatt · 6 months

Last year I sold my Jeep Wrangler on Craigslist. The young kid who bought it had the same first and last name I do. It took a week and a visit to the bank by the young man's father to convince the bank that the check was genuine!

wwwhistler · 6 months

after moving from the east coast to the west coast, my daughter met a new friend on her first day of school turns out we were related through my great-grandfather.

Rixxer · 6 months

We were in the middle of the lake on a pontoon boat fishing and he laid down his pole to help his daughter with worms or a lure or something, just as he turns around the pole gets yanked into the water by a fish... It was his brand new pole, he was pissed and sad.

Me and my dad went home later that day (we live like 2 hours away from him) and 2 days later he calls us freaking out, he went back to fish and got one on the hook, when he reeled it in the fish had another hook in it's mouth, attached to the pole he lost the other day.

true story, I swear :)

NutterBear · 6 months

Oh! For once, I actually have something to post! Sweet!

My family used to spend a week in the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a week every summer (we live in New York). My best friends family used to do the same thing, but as much as her and I begged and pleaded they always went the week after I did. It's about a 15 hour car ride either way, which was absolutely awful. One year, probably the second or third year we went, we were all starving and decided to stop for food. We normally eat really healthy, but there isn't much healthy food at truck stops, so we just went to a random Arbys off a highway exit. Now, we're sitting and eating, when all of a sudden I hear some one say, "NutterBear?" and my mom looked up, and her jaw dropped. Coincidentally, they had stopped at the EXACT same Arbys, at the EXACT same time. It's probably something like an 800 mile drive, and we just happened to run into them.

SRyJohn · 6 months

i emigrated when i was 6 or 7. just a few years ago i went to a restaurant here in philadephia. it was excellent food and i went to compliment the owner, and we strike up a conversation in hebrew. turns out he was born like a block from me a year or two before, 10,000 miles away.

chu248 · 6 months

I was in the Bahamas with my dad for a week. We were snorkeling and went to this protected wildlife area. I don't remember exactly what it was, but there were a bunch of really big reefs and tons of fish. So I'm having fun chasing all the stupid fish around, when I see a glint of something silver on the bottom. Naturally, I go grab it.

For those of you who don't know, a few years ago, the US mint started making a quarter for each state. I had been collecting them, trying to get a full set. I had 49, but I couldn't find the last one. And there it was. I found the 50th quarter at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.(I'm not sure exactly where we were, so it may have been the Gulf of Mexico, but still)

kooknboo · 6 months

Got another one. Wife just reminded me.

When I was 3-4 I lost my favorite Matchbox (a red pickup) at the local beach (on Lake Erie)

Fast forward 22 years. Take the GF to the beach and I'm going to propose. We're sitting on a blanket, I'm getting nervous and digging a hole in the sand with my feet. Boom! Up comes the Matchbox!

workandreddit · 6 months

Every time I go home early without telling my wife, something in the house is broken, and this same big black handyman is there to fix it, everytime!

The_Janitors_Mop · 6 months

Similar to the dentures story, my father and I were surfing in Maui, he lost his college ring that he's had for over 30 years. So we spent the entire day snorkeling trying to find it. To no avail for 2 days we give up. 3rd day were at the beach going surfing again a huge wave wipes him out and sends him to the ocean floor about 8 feet down as his hand skids on the ocean floor his college ring slips on.... I just about shit my pants and said buy a lottery ticket...

Cannedbeans · 6 months

I was in the hospital birthing a child. When the baby comes out, it's covered in utero goo. Usually a nurse will swoop in, and clean the baby up almost immediatly. I was at a 'teaching' hospital, so I had several nurses and doctors milling around, available to perform the initial baby cleansing. A man in scrubs says to a female in scrubs "Good god, you look just like this baby!" She says "Well, I came first, so He looks like Me!" Laughs were had, and she was handed my baby. I was taken away for some post birth situations, and the next time I saw my baby, he was all wrapped up in the arms of that nurse in my next room. (room after birthing suite where I would sleep). I remarked how my son really did look like her. Turns out, my dad's brother had a love child I had never known about. My nurse.

arun_bassoon · 6 months

After my junior year of high school, I went on a college visit to Caltech. I was staying in a hotel nearby, and all of a sudden another lady at the hotel recognized my mother.

It turns out they were coworkers a decade ago... and she was on a college visit with her son, Josh. He was my best friend until kindergarten, when he had moved to Texas. I had never seen him again - and suddenly we were in the same hotel in the same city at the same time.

So we agreed to meet for lunch the next day - clearly there was some catching up to do. If one coincidence wasn't enough, it turns out he had followed a nearly identical path through life as I had. Marching band, math/science nerd, and more, and more. We reminisced over the same music and jokes and so on... truly, it was awesome.

Part 2: We went to different colleges (neither of us got into Caltech). As my username indicates, I play bassoon, and I was planning to audition for the orchestra here. I got to the audition, and I began talking to the cellist who was auditioning before me (Why cello there! and such). It turns out she went to Josh's high school, and they were friends. So now I've befriended someone knows someone who I was best friends with when I was five... and my head exploded.

If that isn't enough, another friend I met in the first weeks of college also knew the cellist before college, as well as one of my close friends from middle school.

manmalade · 6 months

omg.. I was JUST going to post this..

aerynmoo · 6 months

I ran into my brother's sister-in-law at 2 am at a random truck stop off 95 in the middle of fuck nowhere Virginia while on a road trip.

We were on a road trip to Rhode Island to watch my husband's sister get married. We had decided to drive through the night so our baby could sleep the entire way. It backfired, and he was up the entire time. At about 2am we were all tired of the crying so we stopped at some random ghetto truck stop in the middle of nowhere Virginia to stretch our legs and get the baby some milk and a banana. As we were checking out, the girl working behind the counter was looking at me funny. All the sudden she says "...Are you John's sister?" and I was like OMGWTF! I'd only met her the once about a year before so I was shocked she recognized me. It was so weird.

roxcursed · 6 months

One time I was at home looking for my passport. I thought my dad might know where it is, but he's in work. I go over to the house phone and pick it up. There's no dial tone. I was about to put it down and try again when I hear my dad's voice say "Hello?". He had just rung the house to talk to me about something else. I had picked it up before it rang. We shat.

chipbuddy · 6 months

When I was young I was on the set of "What Dreams May Come" as an extra. There were a couple of other kids there with their families. One of the girls had an incredibly hippy sounding name... Sunshine something, and she was really attractive. Many lols were had over the course of the day. Fast forward a years or so. I was flying to Italy for a summer exchange program. Leaving to Italy I could have sworn I saw Sunshine's dad on the plane, but it was so random and I really didn't know him very well so I didn't approach him and say anything. Fast forward another month and on the flight back from Italy I see a slightly hotter slightly more grown up version of Sunshine. She waves to me and we catch up during the flight. It turns out her dad was on the original flight out. So... randomly shared two consecutive flights with an acquaintance and her dad.

pyrobyro · 6 months

My grandfather ran into his brother in the Philippines during WWII. They had no idea they were going to the same place.

As for me...I just moved 3000 miles away from home. At the first party I went to, I found out that my beer pong partner went to college with one of my friends from high school.

trikeratops · 6 months

One time I dialed my mother's cell number to ask her to pick up groceries at the store. Instead it called my science teacher who apparently has a phone number that is only one off from my mothers, whose daughter I was very good friends with. She said who is this? And I was like "hoopearings...." thinking it was my mother and the she said "Oh let me get my daughter for you! How did you get this number?"

bmidge · 6 months

Sitting in my newspaper class and we are trying to figure out the names of all the presidents for an online quiz, eventually we go up through to past the 1900's and then we got stumped. So one of my friends came back from the bathroom, just walked into the door, and I say "Hey, we're trying to think of this president-" "Harding?" " from the 1920's -- Yea harding. What the fuck dude."

EDIT: After reading other posts, this isn't remotely cool.

pot_head_engineer · 6 months

One time I planned a trip going to Hong Kong for the holidays. My best buddy of 20 years (we met in 1st grade) was going with his family too, in the same time frame. We agree to email each other when we get there because we didn't have HK cell phones numbers yet.

I get to HK a few days before him and I head to Mong Kok subway station to wait for my lady. As I'm waiting and watching the hundreds of people walk by, I spot my buddy and his family, with their luggage.

Needless to say, we were all shocked by the coincidence of "running into each other" on the other side of the world.

I ended up giving him my number instead of emailing him

MisterDespair · 6 months

I was sitting at the dinner table with my family. At that time, "Don't Fear the Reaper" by the Blue Oyster Cult was my favorite song in the world, and I was telling my parents that I heard that song on "That 70s Show earlier that day". We had the radio on for some reason during dinner, and literally the second I had finished saying "I heard Don't Fear the Reaper on That 70s Show today", the song started playing on the radio.

My mind has never again been quite so blown.

vaycant · 6 months

One day Dad asked me to go and get something from the supermarket. He gave me his EFTPOS card and told me the PIN. What followed was confusion, as the number he said was the PIN number for my card. We had chosen the exact same 4 digit number for completely different reasons. I'm sure it would be near impossible to figure out the odds of that happening.

Also, when 8 years old I asked whether I still had a passport, mum eventually found it and it was expiring on that exact day. 5 years after it was used.

janelane00 · 6 months

okay, don't know if this will get buried, but my little bro (one year younger) and I have this weird wonder twin connection that only manifests itself in one stupid way: we somehow always, without fail, dress in exactly, exactly the same way, esp. if we're going out. I'm a girl, but somehow we always eerily end wearing identical matching outfits without noticing. it is super embarrassing. worst. twin power. ever.

SuperSix · 6 months

So I'm an immigrant that came from China ~10 years ago. I met one of my friends in kindergarden whom I went to school with. Now In highschool we had a business class together. The teacher was talking and just told us we had to copy down some notes. So at the exact same time we turn to each other and say "Do you have paper?". But get this, we said it in Mandarin which we never speak outside of talking to our parents. So I guess the same time I thought I'd ask in Mandarin for kicks he did too.

Schmoops22 · 6 months

I had come very close to meeting my current girlfriend several times over the course of about three years.

During high school, she attended school 1, was in track and would measure the javelin throws for fun when she had down time. Every year, all of the high schools in our area would come to my high school (school 2) for the biggest track event of the year to determine the best school in each sport and overall. I had a friend who threw javelin for school 3 and I would visit the javelin area at the end of the day of this track event. I watched her through, while my future girlfriend would measure the distance for once a year for two years.

Another time was more recent. I'm a commuter in college and my (still future) girlfriend lives on campus. I'm driving down the street, nearing an intersection frequented by college students crossing the street, and I have the green light! Suddenly, I see a girl trying to cross the street perpendicular to the allowed traffic/pedestrian signals. Her head is down and there is no way she'll see me. I'm going just the speed limit and I slam on the brakes! My tires squeal, my brakes lock up, I start sliding towards her. I stop with ~10 feet to spare, and she jumps up in the air, sees my car and bolts back to the curb. I still have the green light so I go and park. I couldn't find the frightened lass who had almost become road kill to say sorry for the fright.

Months later, while talking casually with her, I mention the horrible conduct of people crossing the street at that intersection. She mentions that she was almost hit. I mention that I almost hit someone. When we finally check her journal, we see it's the right date, and the right time. I almost hit my girlfriend with my car months before meeting her!

TL;DR: Almost met my girlfriend three different times before I actually met her.

zmmar007 · 6 months

People often say to me "Clark, if you took off your glasses and styled your hair a little different you'd look just like that guy with the cape"

Of course, it's purely a coincidence

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__BlackSheep · 6 months

When learning any new vocab I think that I've never seen nor will I see this word, then whoop, there it is.

admiralwaffles · 6 months

Yeah, nobody's gonna see this, so yeehaw.

I was at one of my girlfriend's family function, and I'm talking to her uncle's ex-wife. We live in Texas, but I have a central New York accent, so she asked where I was from. I said New York, and she said that she had family in this tiny town in northern New York--happened to be the same town that my family's from.

So, I said, "Huh, that's neat--my family's from there, too!" She then said, "Do you know this diner?" And I said, "Yeah, my grandfather took us there all the time!" She replied, "Well, it used to be a store." And I said, "I know, because my great uncle owned it!" She said, "No he didn't--my grandfather owned it!"

Yeah, turns out that my great-uncle is her grandfather. We're second cousins.

tl;dr - My girlfriend's cousins are my cousins. Whoops.

fuckyeahcarlsagan · 6 months

On my first date with my now boyfriend, we realized that not only had we both been to Las Vegas in the past month, we had also both taken a picture with the same Lamborghini we'd each seen in parking lots on the strip, and based on our flight times, and we probably even passed each other in the airport as he departed and I arrived.

north0 · 6 months

My family lived in a few different places while I was growing up, including London and Mexico.

We were in Mexico one summer when my brother got a call from a Mexican friend from his high school who was visiting the south of France who had run into someone from London who turned out to be in his high school in London.

They didn't know each other, the conversation went something like, "Oh, you're from Mexico, that's cool, maybe you know my friend X? haha"

"Actually, yes I do."

Minds blown all round.

Quellsnot_Fezzipeg · 6 months

I was holidaying in Spain with my wife and daughters, staying with my elderly in-laws.

One night we were finishing our evening meal by the pool, in-laws were in the house, when we fell to discussing large aquatic megafauna, as you do. I mentioned the whaleshark, the very idea of which my wife immediately laughed off as being a figment of my sunburned pate.

My (deaf) mother in law appeared two minutes later asking if we'd like to join them watching TV that evening, as 'there's a documentary on tonight - it's about whale sharks...'

thebeefytaco · 6 months

I worked at an international summer camp and worked with people from all over the globe. After the summer I went on a vacation with my family to disney world. As I was standing in line, I heard some familiar voices behind me. Two of my friends from the camp (from New Zealand & Australia) had gotten in line right behind me.

Disney world is fucking huge, and not only were they there at the exact same time as me, but they happened to get in line for the same ride, in the same, park at the same time.

runs · 6 months

Had sex, then oddly enough a baby came out of my vagina.

ismonkah · 6 months

I swear this story is true, it still gives me goosebumps when i tell it.

My english professor worked in hollywood back in the early 90s. She lived in an apartment and every so often she would get mail for the previous owner. Usually it was junk so she would toss it and move on. One day she was opening up her mail and accidentally opened one such letter, except this one wasnt junk, it was an official document, stamped and signed, stating that the previous tenants mother had died and she needed to go settle the will. My prof obviously flipped out and contacted her landlord for the tenants phone number. She called her up and explained the letter, the lady asked "is this a joke? I had lunch with my mother today." and they both dismissed it as some sort of mistake. The next day my prof gets a phone call from the lady. She says "i need to have that letter, my mother died in her sleep last night." and of course, after tearing the house apart, the letter was nowhere to be found.

MileHighBarfly · 6 months

Just now! I found out if I had been born 11 days later than I was then 11/11/11 would be the 11,111th day I have been alive!

EDIT: Does this mean I am the messiah or something? Kinda urgent...

joeyisapest · 6 months

Turns out my girlfriends penis is EXACTLY the same size as mine.

clelando · 6 months

Two of my friends were late to hanging out, and one of my friends said, "What if they were in a car crash?"

Within a minute a call came in saying they had, indeed been in a car crash - no injuries, luckily.

Still, we banned my friend from saying "What if" for about a year.

SpottieOttieDopa · 6 months

Im from Canada and I went to Paris right after high school. Ran into a student teacher we had (who was only 5 years older than us). He lived on the exact same street as my aunt and uncle in Paris, about 2 blocks away. Ended up hanging out with him a lot while my friends and I were there.

Sielu · 6 months

I found out, two years after living with the kid for a year, that my roommate Freshman year of college is also my third cousin. We were randomly assigned and got along fabulously, still one of my closest friends to this day. (also, family)

Enzor · 6 months

Whenever I was in third grade I used to play Pokemon a lot and trade with many people around the school. I remember one day I traded my Venusaur to this guy I had been taking to on the bus for a Mew since I wanted to complete my Pokedex at some point and I knew it would be hard to get (I didn't know about the trick at the time and I didn't want to use a gameshark to hack one in.) Later, I move to a new neighborhood and I start hanging out with my neighbor there. One night while spending the night I boot up his game of Pokemon and look through his team. I see a Venusaur in the game and get a weird feeling. I look at the original trainer, and I see my tag (mazem at the time.) I ended up trading him a Pikachu for it (since he couldn't catch them in his game) and I had my old Pokemon back after over 5 years.

zlavan · 6 months

i met someone with a mutual friend (whom i had met under even weirder circumstances) on omegle.

Colorado222 · 6 months

Had been back packing through Europe for a month and had no schedule to abide by. Towards the end of the trip I decided to give Amsterdam a try. After I had arrived I quickly hit up one of the cafes and proceeded to just wander when out of nowhere I feel like I heard my name but didn't give it much thought. Then I heard it again, this time louder. I turned around and saw a friend from high school who's flight to Africa had a 4 hour layover there. Blew my mind in the mere fact that I had no idea what was going on at that point in time.

TL;DR: ran into a friend from high school while backpacking through Europe while he was on a 4 hour layover.

WizzleWall · 6 months

When I was a sophmore in college, my dad (career Air Force) got stationed in Sembach, Germany. While at home with them on summer break, he decided we needed a "guy trip" and we headed off to France for a week. We spent 3 days in Paris - each morning saying "let's go to the Eiffel Tower", and then putting it off to go see other sights. On our last day there, we finally made it to the tower - took the elevator up and did the touristy photos of Paris thing. Since it was a nice, hot day in Paris I didn't want to get back in the elevator so we agreed to head down one of the four sets of stairs. About half way down, this girl passes us heading up...looks just like my ex-girlfriend from my freshman year of high school. Our eyes meet and we both freeze, cause it IS her! It was such an odd, random occurrence we were both kind of dazed and speechless. My dad took a photo of us and you can see the "deer in the headlights" look.

BeCurry · 6 months

I went on a trip to Croatia and I met an Australian girl who had eaten a banana out of the same Dutch woman's vagina as me.

hurricaneturtle · 6 months

Happened couple of weeks ago. So, in a club my friend accidentally pushed me into a guy (John) and we ended hooking up. We go back to his place and I meet this Australian guy called Yan. It turns out they both met couple of years ago whilst both traveling in Peru. Yan is now on a world trip and just happened to visit Edinburgh and crash at John's for couple of nights. We get chatting and he adds me to his friendlist on FB. He sees that we have a friend in common, Stu, who is from SAR. I met Stu 3years ago in Glasgow through CouchSurfing - he just wanted someone local to show him around and we ended up being really close friends.. Now, Yan met Stu while they both worked in Austria in competing post-production companies. What the actual..

Jobeanie123 · 6 months

This wan't directly concerning me, but in school one year my teacher found a note in a windowsill. It said "Hi, my name is so&so... I like to dance and sing, et c" The date on the bottom of the note was exactly 3 years prior to the date it was found. To add to this, the "word of the day" was something had had to do with days of different years being the same or something (ex. 9/11/01 is still ~~celebrated~~ (wtf?) remembered on 9/11/11).

I don't remember the complete details, but that was weird enough.

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