Big Coincidences You've Experienced

[hyde]

I amm driving down the street after dropping off the gf in high school. The horn in my car hasn't worked in months.
So I say out (alone) as I hold the horn down....I'll start going to church again if god fixes my horn.
Instantly.
I got over it though.

[MarkSummers]

Okay, long story, but if you can follow it, it's pretty neat.

It's the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college. I'm moving out of the dorms and into an off campus apartment but when the story starts I'm at home.

My friend from home in my high school went to a different college than me and tells me that his friend that he met at said college was transferring to my college. Lets call this guy "fred." So my friend from HS asks me if he can give my AOL name to Fred so he can ask me about the school. I say yes and I talk to Fred once online during the summer for about 30 minutes about my school(the one he is transferring to). I didn't talk to him again until the semester started.

Okay, that's one part. During sophomore year, my roomate's friend from his hometown (we'll call him jack) decides to come up and visit for a weekend of partying. Jack used to go to college but dropped out and is currently working. Jack decides he wants to be with all of us cool people up at school and transfers to my school for the upcoming fall semester.

Fast forward to the beginning of the year. I go to Jack's dorm room for a bit during a break in my classes. He has hardly seen any of his roomates yet because school just literally started and they're all busy. One of his suitemate's computer is out in the common room and he's just looking at it and sees my screen name on his AOL buddy list. Turns out it was Fred who we would meet later.

Sorta weird. Also, my school isn't small. We have over 10k undergrads.

[Harv72b]

"It's a Small World" Coincidence:

While growing up, I lived in Turkey for 5 years. One of my best friends in school there was a kid named Mike. Long story short, my family moved back to the States, his moved on to Indonesia, we lost touch. No big deal.

Five years later I'm in my HS English class here in Maryland and notice a new kid to the school walk into the classroom carrying a Jakarta International School gym bag. From our brief attempt at correspondence, I know that this is where Mike attended school after moving to Indonesia. Just for the hell of it, I ask this kid if he knew Mike.

He & Mike were close friends in Jakarta.

More Normal-life Coincidence:

My day job is delivering flowers for a local florist. A good percentage of our deliveries go to funeral homes and churches. On one particular route, I was going to one of each.

As I pulled into the parking lot of the church, the radio started playing AC/DC's "Highway to Hell". About 20 minutes later, as I drove up to the flower delivery room at the funeral home, the dj started up Guns N' Roses "I Used To Love Her".

Poker Coincidence:

Playing Party poker, 3/6 if memory serves, full ring. It's a particularly good table and so of course I'm running cold. A loose passive player limps, a loose aggressive player raises, a loose player coldcalls, and I 3-bet in the CO with pocket tens. Loose, bad SB coldcalls, it gets to the TAG in the BB who sits there pondering for about 10 seconds. Finally, I type in the chat box "I'm just gonna flop quads, but go ahead and call if you must". BB eventually folds, everyone else calls.

Flop: TT7.

[diebitter]

Here's a blast from the past, also shows how I first acquired the fonz avatar: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showth...page=0&vc=1

[young nut]

Down in Jacksonville for the Florida/Georgia game. I'm staying with some friends at a resort on Amelia Island which is about 40 minutes from Jacksonville.

Go to the resort bar Friday night and end up partying with some other guys from Athens. Stayed up way to late, went back to the room, and then was kept up half the night from the noises coming from the guy in the condo nextdoor bangin some chick.

Day of the game we are searching all over downtown Jacksonville for the people we are tailgating with. We finally find the tailgate, and the guys we were partying with the night before are parked right next to it. We got a kick out of this, but then I tell them I was tired because some dude was nailing a chick nextdoor. Turns out, that was one of the guys and they were staying in the condo next door.

Dude, a few years back I was in like a mental institution (don't ask) and there was like this one crazy guy who just kept repeating this same set of numbers over and over. So, when I get out I play those numbers in the lotto. Dude, I won $156 million!! Soon after all this bad stuff kept happening, dude, it was like I was cursed by these numbers.

Then I was flying from Sydney to LA and my plane crashed on some deserted island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Dude, there were like 42 survivors! Then, 30 days after we crashed we come across this weird hatch in the ground. Dude, dude, I'm starving. But that's not the coincidence! Dude, the same numbers I won the lotto with were carved ON the door of the hatch halfway across the world!!!

Later,
Hurley

[Bigdaddydvo]

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Dude, a few years back I was in like a mental institution (don't ask) and there was like this one crazy guy who just kept repeating this same set of numbers over and over. So, when I get out I play those numbers in the lotto. Dude, I won $156 million!! Soon after all this bad stuff kept happening, dude, it was like I was cursed by these numbers.

Then I was flying from Sydney to LA and my plane crashed on some deserted island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Dude, there were like 42 survivors! Then, 30 days after we crashed we come across this weird hatch in the ground. Dude, dude, I'm starving. But that's not the coincidence! Dude, the same numbers I won the lotto with were carved ON the door of the hatch halfway across the world!!!

Later,
Hurley

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This gimmick account is a respectable 6.5 or so.

[man]

junior year of high school, I spoke on AIM with a guy who wanted to buy my guitar. (I wanted $150 for an RG220, he offered $70, no thanks.) He lived on my floor freshman year.

what's also funny is that I spoke with him through the screenname of a girl I had met online. I never told him we met online.

I lived in Sun Valley, Idaho for about 7 years. Once, I rented 'Terminator 2', watched about half, then fell asleep. Next morning, woke up and watched the rest. Then went to get my day of skiing in, get to the Warm Springs lift line, and who do I see? Ah-nold.

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I lived in Sun Valley, Idaho for about 7 years. Once, I rented 'Terminator 2', watched about half, then fell asleep. Next morning, woke up and watched the rest. Then went to get my day of skiing in, get to the Warm Springs lift line, and who do I see? Ah-nold.

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