Coincidences
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I’ve been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for the last month.
My wife has been reading a book called The Reunion, which is also an event in Rebirth.
My parents are going on holiday to Costa Del Sol in a few weeks, which is also a location in Rebirth.
My daughter is currently obsessed with the weather, Cloud is the main character in the FFVII games.1 -
I was recently on holiday in Dharamsala and my friend at work, who was covering for me whilst I was off sent me a photo of part of the book she was reading that morning as a response to my message saying we had arrived. The book was describing meeting someone for the first time and how this one character was telling them about their travels to India and referenced Dharamsala!1
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I used to work with my wife in the city for NatWest in the early 90’s although we didn’t get together until 2007 but we would often see each other on the Friday night City circuit.A week or so after one of the Friday meetings, I dropped her an email to see if fancied meeting for lunch one day. I got her out of office as she was on leave.Coincidentally ( bear with me) and unknown to me, there was someone else who had worked in her departmemt who had the same name as me (apparently their email address just had 2 after the surname ) but he had died about 6 months earlier.I got a message from my wife who was on holiday, as the woman who was picking up her emails thought she was being contacted from beyond the grave by a dead person saying it was good to see you again after such a long time8
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Was on the Online Prescription Glasses thread a couple of minutes ago
Got ITV on for the Tour de France, and just had a SelectSpecs advert.0 -
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Also as i typed 'coincidence' to find this thread my daughter said the word coincidence watching a coincidence on tv.0
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Wearing a penguin shirt today, someone commented on it at work earlier and the next time I looked at my phone I had an email from penguin about their autumn line0
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Watching the game against Crawley tonight, at one point it was quite dull and my mind began to drift. I focussed on the sponsors logo on our sleeves. Realising that I didn't have a clue what it meant I decided to ask just as Joe Wollacot hit a long ball up field. The result was this:
Me: What's P Lon?
Sky Commentator: Pumped Long.3 -
I was looking at the ground advertising and wondered how busy the Lego Brick Borrow business must be, there seemed to be quite a few signs.Stig said:Watching the game against Crawley tonight, at one point it was quite dull and my mind began to drift. I focussed on the sponsors logo on our sleeves. Realising that I didn't have a clue what it meant I decided to ask just as Joe Wollacot hit a long ball up field. The result was this:
Me: What's P Lon?
Sky Commentator: Pumped Long.1 -
I thought exactly the same thing last night !!!Hal1x said:
I was looking at the ground advertising and wondered how busy the Lego swap business must be, there seemed to be quite a few signs.Stig said:Watching the game against Crawley tonight, at one point it was quite dull and my mind began to drift. I focussed on the sponsors logo on our sleeves. Realising that I didn't have a clue what it meant I decided to ask just as Joe Wollacot hit a long ball up field. The result was this:
Me: What's P Lon?
Sky Commentator: Pumped Long.0 - Sponsored links:
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I follow a couple of Black Cab drivers on YouTube, and I also play a word game on my phone. A few weeks ago, while trying to find a five-letter word from the six letters I was given, I entered the word 'PRADE' to see if it was valid. At the exact moment I said the word in my head, the cabbie commenting on his route mentioned Praed Street.1
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funnily enough I was in a cab watching Robin of Sherwood on my mobile when I read this, and the actor playing Robin is one Michael Praed.Gribbo said:I follow a couple of Black Cab drivers on YouTube, and I also play a word game on my phone. A few weeks ago, while trying to find a five-letter word from the six letters I was given, I entered the word 'PRADE' to see if it was valid. At the exact moment I said the word in my head, the cabbie commenting on his route mentioned Praed Street.
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I saw that a certain model of my car has a timing chain instead of a timing belt, and I wasn’t sure which one mine had. So I entered my reg into a site to determine the exact make and model - and it told me that my MOT expires today.6
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A few years back, I ordered a Nintendo switch OLED from Amazon, when it arrived, the wrong item had been dispatched. Ordered a Nintendo Switch 2 from Amazon on Thursday, arrived yesterday, another wrong item has been delivered.3
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Not any more.letthegoodtimesroll said:Since Lennie Lawrence left, hasn’t every time we’ve been promoted been when we’ve had an ex-player as manager ?
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Spent the weekend at a lovely hotel in Hampshire celebrating my mum’s 80th. This morning, she and her husband left the hotel to spend a week in a house in Poole with my uncle and his new “life companion.”
After chatting with my brother about what we could get her, we decided on a decent-sized voucher for Rick Stein’s Harbour View restaurant down that way. She received the present while we were having a meal on Friday night, and we were basically telling her and her husband to get onto the restaurant first thing Monday morning so they could book a table while they’re staying nearby this week.
After the meal, her husband and my uncle pulled me and my brother aside to tell us they’d already booked that exact restaurant for the night of her birthday (the 17th – tomorrow). I know it’s quite a well-known spot in the area, but it still felt like a real coincidence – not to mention a bit of a win for her husband, who now doesn’t have to cough up any money for it! Ffs
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What a coincidence - I had a similar story for my parent’s wedding anniversary this year. My wife suggested a restaurant we could get them a voucher for, when we gave it to them on their anniversary it turned out it was the one they had booked to go to for lunch.Gribbo said:Spent the weekend at a lovely hotel in Hampshire celebrating my mum’s 80th. This morning, she and her husband left the hotel to spend a week in a house in Poole with my uncle and his new “life companion.”
After chatting with my brother about what we could get her, we decided on a decent-sized voucher for Rick Stein’s Harbour View restaurant down that way. She received the present while we were having a meal on Friday night, and we were basically telling her and her husband to get onto the restaurant first thing Monday morning so they could book a table while they’re staying nearby this week.
After the meal, her husband and my uncle pulled me and my brother aside to tell us they’d already booked that exact restaurant for the night of her birthday (the 17th – tomorrow). I know it’s quite a well-known spot in the area, but it still felt like a real coincidence – not to mention a bit of a win for her husband, who now doesn’t have to cough up any money for it! Ffs
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On 21st May, I joked with a friend about her ex and said "What a guy". After receiving a blank look, I had to explain the character "Ace Rimmer from "Red Dwarf".
Two days later, on 23rd May, I was flicking through the tv channels and saw that "Red Dwarf" was on.
It was the episode with "Ace Rimmer"...
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For many, many years I had the same telephone number - originally it was the local exchange followed by 8090. It then became 28090 and finally in the 1990s - 828090. My father died in the 1980s and when my Mother died some years later I was going through her papers and found my Dad's 1930s Army Service/Pay Book. His Service number was 828090.28
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And my namesake looks like she had a very nice time too!Gribbo said:Spent the weekend at a lovely hotel in Hampshire celebrating my mum’s 80th. This morning, she and her husband left the hotel to spend a week in a house in Poole with my uncle and his new “life companion.”
After chatting with my brother about what we could get her, we decided on a decent-sized voucher for Rick Stein’s Harbour View restaurant down that way. She received the present while we were having a meal on Friday night, and we were basically telling her and her husband to get onto the restaurant first thing Monday morning so they could book a table while they’re staying nearby this week.
After the meal, her husband and my uncle pulled me and my brother aside to tell us they’d already booked that exact restaurant for the night of her birthday (the 17th – tomorrow). I know it’s quite a well-known spot in the area, but it still felt like a real coincidence – not to mention a bit of a win for her husband, who now doesn’t have to cough up any money for it! Ffs
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our old woolwich number ended 8090!cherryorchard said:For many, many years I had the same telephone number - originally it was the local exchange followed by 8090. It then became 28090 and finally in the 1990s - 828090. My father died in the 1980s and when my Mother died some years later I was going through her papers and found my Dad's 1930s Army Service/Pay Book. His Service number was 828090.2 -
Was talking to an ex work colleague yesterday afternoon who now lives abroad, and as he mentioned our old habit of hitting the Greenwich town centre pubs after walking through Greenwich foot tunnel (late 90's in the days before the DLR went under the water to Island Gardens, we worked at Coldharbour) and he had no idea where I was driving at the time I drove straight past where the Cricketers pub we frequented once stood, then he mentioned the 286 bus from Eltham/Kidbrooke we used to get, and lo & behold one went past me on the other side of the road, it was meant to be, not a huge coincidence but I thought of this thread straight away.5
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That’s amazing!cherryorchard said:For many, many years I had the same telephone number - originally it was the local exchange followed by 8090. It then became 28090 and finally in the 1990s - 828090. My father died in the 1980s and when my Mother died some years later I was going through her papers and found my Dad's 1930s Army Service/Pay Book. His Service number was 828090.4 -
Was out having a meal the other evening in Beaumaris, Angelsey, and got chatting to a guy about this and that, and turns out he is having a job interview where I work next week, and it's likely I will be interviewing him as I am interviewing several people next week.
Turns out also his best mate is someone I have known for years and worked with who put him up for the job, who incidentally I had just been talking too prior to us chatting.8 -
Sounds like the Masons to me.Chippycafc said:Was out having a meal the other evening in Beaumaris, Angelsey, and got chatting to a guy about this and that, and turns out he is having a job interview where I work next week, and it's likely I will be interviewing him as I am interviewing several people next week.
Turns out also his best mate is someone I have known for years and worked with who put him up for the job, who incidentally I had just been talking too prior to us chatting.15 -
Was a good weekend and I think she had a good time, cheers B.Curb_It said:
And my namesake looks like she had a very nice time too!Gribbo said:Spent the weekend at a lovely hotel in Hampshire celebrating my mum’s 80th. This morning, she and her husband left the hotel to spend a week in a house in Poole with my uncle and his new “life companion.”
After chatting with my brother about what we could get her, we decided on a decent-sized voucher for Rick Stein’s Harbour View restaurant down that way. She received the present while we were having a meal on Friday night, and we were basically telling her and her husband to get onto the restaurant first thing Monday morning so they could book a table while they’re staying nearby this week.
After the meal, her husband and my uncle pulled me and my brother aside to tell us they’d already booked that exact restaurant for the night of her birthday (the 17th – tomorrow). I know it’s quite a well-known spot in the area, but it still felt like a real coincidence – not to mention a bit of a win for her husband, who now doesn’t have to cough up any money for it! Ffs
It was a lovely hotel considering it was only spitting distance from Basingstoke town center.1 -
Was in Vegas a few years ago and was on my way with the missus to see Smokey Robinson. Was in the lift and another couple got in and said hello as you do and when we realised the were English asked where they were off to. As you would expect from this thread it was the Smokey concert, so we shared a taxi and further discussions found the couple were both also from Essex and we both lived in Leigh-On-Sea!6
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On holiday in St Lucia earlier this year, we went on a boat trip with about 8 others from our small section of the hotel. Turned out they lived 'between Swanley and Orpington', so I correctly said 'Oh, Crockenhill then'. So I went on the say 'You'll know Joydens Wood then' and they did - because he lived had lived in the next road to me growing up and we were a couple of years apart at Joydens Wood Junior School
Later on in the holiday they mentioned they had a place on a golf resort in Murcia - so we mentioned we'd rented a place on a golf course in Murcia a few years ago - and it turned out to be 4 doors up from theirs.12 -
a strange one .. a few days ago the song 'Lightning Strikes' popped into my head from nowhere, a song I liked in the past but hadn't heard or though of for years.
Today I read that its singer/writer Lou Christie died on June 18th .. R I P Lou3 -
Was there a mirror in this lift? ☹️Carl Leaburn said:Was in Vegas a few years ago and was on my way with the missus to see Smokey Robinson. Was in the lift and another couple got in and said hello as you do and when we realised the were English asked where they were off to. As you would expect from this thread it was the Smokey concert, so we shared a taxi and further discussions found the couple were both also from Essex and we both lived in Leigh-On-Sea!0
