<p>Coincidences are fun. On vacation with our parents, my brother ran into a kid from high school in the National Gallery in London. Thing is the kid had been an exchange student from Sweden and was on vacation from his Swedish school with his parents.</p>
<p>Whenever I notice numbers, H points out that I’m an Aspie.
314–this number keeps cropping up as a house number, area code, part of zip code.
711–My childhood address, S #1 was due on 7/11. He was a week late, but he weighed 7lbs 11oz.<br>
10/23 was S #2’s due-date. He also was a week late, but was born at 10:23–same time my twin sister was born.
All the digits of h’s dob, my dob and ss# are even numbers. I like that.</p>
<p>H took me to NYC right before we were married. He bragged that he would see someone he knew–(Right.) Sure enough, he ran into his college roommate in the subway.
There was an American doctor from Idaho who worked for Peace Corps in the African country where H and I served. H and I knew him pretty well. After we came back to the U.S., we visited H’s aunt in WI. She said her next door neighbor’s brother was “a doctor in Africa.” H and I rolled our eyes when his aunt insisted on calling the neighbor to find out her brother’s name and where he worked. Turned out that he was “our” doctor–The neighbor came over and was very excited to see photos of where her brother–her only sib, 20 years her senior-- worked.
A few years ago, H went to France with a Catholic church youth group. Some French families from a local church were assigned to pick them up at the airport and take them to dinner at their homes. H’s host, a middle-aged woman, was speaking French with a strange accent. So H said in English, “You’re not French–where are you from?” She said she was American, from the south. H asked what city–she said she was from Memphis. H said, “Me, too! What neighborhood?” When she identified the neighborhood, H asked “What street?” Then finally said, “What’s your maiden name?” It was his childhood “diagonal” backyard neighbor. Her brother was H’s classmate. H had once asked out her younger sister (her mom got on the phone and said “Susie doesn’t have time for you,” and hung up! --H’s family was sort of low class–and Catholic. 
The sister had married a Frenchman and converted.<br>
H’s paternal grandparents were separated and lived in different states for decades before they died–on the same day. Grandpa’s dying words were, “Alice (Grandma)–She was a good woman.”</p>
<p>Here are a couple more–
When I lived in Africa in the 80’s, hardly anyone had TV. Once, H and I had dinner with a wealthy neighbor of his who had a TV in their living room. I hadn’t seen a TV in years. They turned it on–to a show starring a guy from my neighborhood/high school.
For many years I didn’t have/watch TV. I was in the hospital after having a baby. I was bored, so I turned on the TV-- Seinfeld was on–a show I’d never seen. One of the guest stars was the SAME actor from my high school!</p>
<p>I was visiting India when I was younger and did not know anyone. When I took a bus trip to another city I had to go to a large bus terminal to wait. I walked into a room with several hundred people and sat down at an empty seat to wait. I sat next to a young Indian girl about my age and started a conversation. Lo and behold she was from my small hometown in the US. I didn’t know her and she was dressed in a sari and not western style so I really had no reason to suspect she was not a citizen of India so I always wonder what made me sit next to her. We became friends and after returning home we visited each other. Small world!</p>
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One night we were going to a movie with the kids (who were around 10-ish) and D’s hair was looking a bit straggly so I suggested we should fix it up, saying “It’s one of the laws of nature, if you go out with a bad hair day you will see a boy you like”. Coming out of the movie we ran into a boy from her class and HIS family. You should have seen her face. She was glad she let me fix up her hair :)</p>
<p>A couple of years ago, my kids were watching a sitcom featuring a black family. At one point, the dad in the show brought home some stuff from a yard sale, including a photo of a white family. My kids yelled, “MOM, COME HERE!!” The photo was of a white family that lives about half a mile from us, in rural Maine! They stopped the TV to show it to me on the screen. I couldn’t believe it. I called the family, and the husband said, “Oh, yeah, my brother works in props out in Hollywood, and that’s one of the shows he does!”</p>
<p>This is a story about cosmic JUSTICE! [Brianna</a> Priddy, Applebee’s Waitress, Serves Customer Using Her Stolen Driver’s License (VIDEO)](<a href=“Brianna Priddy, Applebee's Waitress, Serves Customer Using Her Stolen Driver's License (VIDEO) | HuffPost Weird News”>Brianna Priddy, Applebee's Waitress, Serves Customer Using Her Stolen Driver's License (VIDEO) | HuffPost Weird News)</p>
<p>"When a customer at an Applebee’s in Lakewood, Co., allegedly tried to use a stolen driver’s license to get a drink, she got served – but not in the way she wanted.</p>
<p>Turns out the driver’s license belonged to the waitress taking the order."</p>
<p>We could have chosen any of dozens of gelato shops in Italy. We ordered gelato for everyone, then started chatting with the owner. He asked us where we were from, and after we told him, he said he had a very dear friend who lives in our town, he hadn’t seen him in 45 years. He insisted on telling us the name, and did we know him? Turns out, the man was a childhood friend of my uncle (!) who lived down the block from us. So we took video of this man greeting my uncle, who later watched this with tears in his eyes.</p>
<p>When she moved to Los Angeles after college graduation, my niece, Cait, became friends with Barbara, a 62 year old woman who lived a few doors down in the same apt. building. Barbara used to live in Australia about 13 years ago when she was working at the Olympic games. While on the job, she met another woman there (also named Barbara) with whom she became friends and they have stayed in touch ever since. Australian Barbara lives in Melbourne. </p>
<p>Last month Cait made plans to go to Australia to visit her boyfriend who had recently moved back after his job ended in the US. Barbara suggested that Cait give Australian Barbara a call if she got to Melbourne, just to meet her and maybe have coffee or something. It was pretty low on her priority list, though. She really didn’t think she’d have time to ring up a stranger while touring the country with her BF.</p>
<p>They did go to Melbourne, though, and they stayed with the BF’s sister in her apartment for a few days while they were there. They met her sister’s roommate, a woman who moved in about 6 weeks earlier. Her name was Barbara. Upon meeting her, Cait remarked that Barbara reminded her of “her” Barbara back in L.A… Australian Barbara then asked about American Barbara and came to find out that it was her good friend!</p>
<p>I forgot about this one til just last night. Two HS friends of mine were involved in the same sport, and used to train together with the same coach. Friend #2 moved away to live closer to that coach. Friend #2 happened to subsequently go to my college and we reconnected, and thanks to facebook lots of old friends are reconnecting. Friend #1, after college, lived in TX for a long time. Friend #2 in the NE. Friend #2 divorced her husband and remarried— turns out her second husband was friend#1’s old boss.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about this thread for the past week and thought I’d post another story.</p>
<p>At my kids college they have a random day off called Fox Day. They started a special webcam a few years back showing the plaza where the fox statue is placed to symbolize the day off of classes etc…and at the end of the day where people gather for a picnic dinner. Well two years ago I logged on at the exact time my son was walking by with his friends. Fastforward to this year and I log on at the exact time my daughter happens to be walking by. Now you would think I would tell my kids to stand in front of the statue and wave while I am online but I never think about it. I find it interesting this has happened to me twice! Talk about cosmic coincidences!</p>
<p>My husband was walking down the street in Spain and ran into his older brother. </p>
<p>Neither brother knew the other one was in Spain as they were both in the military. One’s ship and the other’s unit both unexpectedly took detours to Spain on the same day.</p>
<p>I adopted my daughter from China via what was an extremely random process back in 1997-1998.</p>
<p>The number of the month of her birthday is half of the number of the month of my birthday. The number of the day of her birthday is half of the number of the day of my birthday. The number of the last 2 digits of the year of her birthday is double the number of the last 2 digits of the year of my birthday.</p>
<p>I once bumped into my only uncle in a hallway at a university in Rome - he was there for a conference and I was travelling with a buddy and looking for a bathroom.</p>
<p>Here’s one from an old WWII vet: He was a 30 year-old barber when the US entered the war. A kid came in for a haircut and they were chatting about recent developments. The barber asks the kid if he thought they might get drafted. He replied, “No way. You’re too old and I have flat feet!”</p>
<p>Fast forward a few years, and the barber was a demolitions expert sent on a suicide mission to the front lines to try to slow down the advancing German tanks. He is walking across a field where some GIs are digging trenches. Not missing a step, he says to one of them, “Yeah, right. I’m too old and you have flat feet.”</p>
<p>The barber survived in a POW camp and came back to cut hair around here for a long time.</p>
<p>My twin brothers and I were born on the same day, five years apart. They were five minutes apart, and five minutes later than the time I was born.</p>
<p>Cosmic coincidence today during the unusual travel day.</p>
<p>Son’s morning flight cancelled and he booked a later flight with a somewhat iffy connection. He tried to get on an earlier full flight but wasn’t able to, so I suggested he stick with his original reschedule and we’ll deal with a missed connection when it happens.</p>
<p>Son arrived at his connecting destination, only to find out that not only did he not miss his connection, but his same plane WAS his connection! Son exited the plane, stretched his legs, presented his second boarding pass, and is now on his way back to school, on the same plane he boarded halfway across the country.</p>
<p>I tell you what, there were some angels watching over that child today.</p>
<p>My daughter’s date for the junior prom was the nephew of a friend of mine my freshman year in college.</p>
<p>I haven’t been in touch with the college friend and only determined the connection through chatting with the date’s mother.</p>
<p>An old time CC poster was at the University where her child was just starting freshman year. She was trying to watch a traditional parade the university has for the incoming freshmen and struck up a conversation with a gentleman standing nearby, asking him if he knew the best place to stand to see the students march. A couple of days later I was speaking with my brother, who had taken a trip down to the university his daughter was attending to help her move in for the start of her senior year. It was very clear from the details of my conversation with him, that he was the person who was standing next to my friend from CC. They are from two totally different areas of the country and the university is located in a completely different area from where they both live. :)</p>
<p>Enjoying this thread as my DD just had one of those weird coincidences. DD and boyfriend were in NYC over winter break and going through Penn Station they visited the whispering gallery. They did notice a small film crew filming unobtrusively. So DD is flying home this week, just reading on the plane, and glances over at the TV the guy in the next seat is watching and there is footage of her BF at the whispering gallery. They never would have known if she hadn’t been on that plane in that seat on that day.</p>
<p>My college boyfriend graduated a year earlier than I and went to grad school a distance away (decided not to keep the relationship going). I graduated and moved to another city for a job. A few years later he ends up in the same city, then the same school district, and his wife gets a job working with my H! She’s not at the same company anymore, but our kids had a lot of classes together in high school. It’s been interesting and awkward at times.</p>
<p>The Boston Marathon bomber was was arrested 18 years to the day that Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was arrested</p>