What is the most coincidental thing that's ever happened to you?

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griffaliff@reddit

Djing some drum n bass at a mates party at his house in rural Wales. Turns out the first tune I play is by one of the guests at the party. He was my mates older sisters best mate, we still talk about how surreal it was years later.

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Lower_Hospital1268@reddit

What was the song

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griffaliff@reddit

Follow Me by Document One

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

We were driving on roads through endless American woodland, completely lost, and I started joking how it seemed like a horror movie where the heroes are followed by a serial killer in a truck. Well not five minutes later we realised we were being followed by a truck, which was far too close and kept flashing its lights. We took random turnings and even doubled back on our self trying to persuade ourselves they weren't really following, but they kept coming. We were shitting ourselves. We didn't have mobile phones or anything to defend ourselves with. We really went for it, speeding as fast as we could, but we had a crappy car and the truck effortlessly overtook us and blocked the road. I was effectively screaming at this point. It was a woman I'd met on one other occasion, who'd recognised our car and "wanted to say hello".

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

that's actually psychotic

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Ok-Advantage3180@reddit

When I was 16 we got a plane to Jersey for a week’s holiday. On the holiday was a dad and his two kids who continuously kicked our chairs and were generally being really annoying (thankfully the flight was only half an hour). On the way back, not only were they on the exact same flight but they were also sitting directly behind us again (and another lovely half hour of having my seat kicked 🙃)

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

ha! We went to Tunisia, we flew from Manchester and stayed in a hotel there the night before our flight. There was a family in the hotel, we saw them in the airport, we sat very close to them on the plane, then they got on a different transfer from the airport. Lo and behold, got to the hotel and there they were, same holiday just booked through a different operator. Very disappointed that we were sat far apart on the return flight.

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bestdress_fearless13@reddit

I had a dream that my mum disappeared and we couldn’t find her. In the dream I was convinced she must have been kidnapped because she never would have left us intentionally. I vividly remember waking up and down my grandparent’s street in the dream, looking for her and worrying. When I woke up, I thought nothing more of it than that it was a weird dream and went about my day as usual. Later that morning I got a phone call to tell me that my mum had died. It was completely sudden and unexpected. We didn’t know why at the time but it turns out she had had a blood clot in her lung. I’ve never experienced a sudden loss like that. Here one minute, gone the next. It was heartbreaking and eerie, truly like she had just disappeared. Dreaming that she’d disappeared mere hours before she did effectively die and disappear forever is the weirdest coincidence of my life. I think I’ve only mentioned it to my partner and maybe my closest friend and a sibling because, quite frankly, it sounds made up. But it really happened.

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

it's definitely stuff like this that makes me a little afraid of the bad dreams. 100% believe you. Did you look into dreams and stuff?

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cari-strat@reddit

I dreamed my brother's date of death. He was slightly unwell at the time but I didn't know what with, just had a random dream of him dying, and the date. Turned out his illness was terminal brain cancer and my premonition was spot on.

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FourLovelyTrees@reddit

I believe you.

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RachaelBlonde@reddit

My best friend who I did everything with, my sister if you will was with me at my first 2 children’s births, it prompted her to leave her job and do midwifery, she unfortunately got stage 4 bowel cancer at 27 she died within 6 weeks, one of our last conversations (when she knew she was dying) was that i wanted her to be with me if i had anymore kids… 6months after she died I got caught pregnant, 9 months later i went to give birth, i was super emotional as she wasn’t there anyway, I was taken down to the delivery suit my midwife came in to introduce herself she would be delivering my baby and her name was Alison, my best friend who had passed away was called Alison, i almost passed out and completely broke down crying, it was beautiful for me, and i do believe it was Devine intervention not coincidence 😇

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

I'm skeptical of like, ghosts. But this stuff, I definitely think it's a message/sign. I sometimes wonder if babies can see, or sense, spirits or something. My dad died real sudden, mum would eat her dinner with a photo of my dad at the table. The first time she did this a butterfly landed on the photo. Some things are just too much.

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RachaelBlonde@reddit

I definitely think its a sign, it brings much comfort to those left behind, Sorry for your loss xx

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

You too :)

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

Woke up from a nightmare & switched my bedside light on, it flickered & blew. Got out of my bed to the bedroom lightswitch, the bulb flickered & blew. Went outside to the landing light switch, the bulb flickered & blew. Eventually found a torch that worked & went to the fusebox - everything was fine, was just coincidence had no further problems like it.

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Das_Gruber@reddit

Did you happen to fit all those lightbulbs on the same day, all from the same batch you got from the shop?

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

That would be a reasonable assumption but no, they'd been changed independently over many years.

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ThePodd222@reddit

I have a light bulb related coincidence too. Years ago in our first flat I got something out the hallway cupboard and saw our boxes of new light bulbs on the shelf. I thought to myself "it's weird how you only ever need to replace bulbs when they blow by being switched on". _At that precise second_ the bulb in the light which was on immediately in front of the cupboard went out and needed replacing.

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westcabiria@reddit

I used to play Xbox 360 online with a kid from Morecambe all the time when I was younger who had a very distinctive scratchy high pitched voice. After a year or so of speaking to him I went away with my family and we stopped off at the Asda in Morecambe to buy dinner. I wandered around while they were shopping, walked through the cereal aisle and swore I recognised the voice of a kid that was shopping with his mother as it was almost 1:1 with the lad I knew. I was too awkward to query it at the time but checked with him when I got home, we’d been in the same aisle of the same shop at the same time after playing games with eachother for a year and living over 200 miles apart.

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Ok_Experience_9851@reddit

One day, I was mindlessly scrolling YouTube shorts when I came across a rather funny video. One so funny, that it was only right to delve into the comment section. And so I did. And in that comment section I'd go on to find a comment that would change my life. What it read is irrelevant. It was just another comment amongst the other 70,000. However, contained within said comment, was a reply from someone with a scarily familiar name. For good reason. As, upon further inspection, it was him. I had just found the YouTube account of one of my old college mates. In a random reply section of a random comment, in a random YouTube short. Completely random. What's crazier is that it was not a comment; but a reply to a comment in a sea of 70,000+ other comments. I still think about it to this day. Glad to have it off my chest.

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Hyperion2023@reddit

Arrived at Paddington to see family. My mate G called me, saying ‘I’m here, where are you?’ I say ‘Oh hi G. What’s up?!’ knowing she didn’t mean to ring me. Just as G says ‘Oops sorry, called you by accident, I meant to phone my sister, I’m meeting her at Padd-‘ she and I lock eyes in the crowded station, in absolute incredulity, 10m apart. Her sis and my name are not similar, I wasn’t in her recent dials, and she very rarely gets the train. I don’t see her around anywhere other than our home town. The one time she does, she calls me by accident while I’m standing 10 metres away from her.

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Jlaw118@reddit

I have a friend who I knew from nursery and caught back up with in high school. We didn’t particularly get on well throughout the final years of high school because of a girl he was seeing was friends with a girl I was seeing and politics got in the way. But since leaving we’ve seen each other at various events, his dad also owns a garage and I’d see him every now and then when I took my car in as he worked there. But two years ago I was talking to my girlfriend about him, and around that time, I had a car accident where I ended up in a ditch. People were stopping and checking we were okay, but next thing this friend of mine in question pulled up to check if we were alright and helped get me out of the car. As my car was written off, him and his girlfriend took our shopping home for us whilst we waited for recovery. It was a few months later, me and my girlfriend were out walking and we got talking about friends and social lives. I said to her that I wish me and this guy had a better social life as I’ve known him for years, but instead we just end up randomly bumping into each other every once in a while. Ten minutes later, we walked into our local co-op, and him and his girlfriend were there again. Few weeks later, we went for coffee and breakfast one Sunday morning and I joked saying “watch out we’ll end up bumping into them in here!” And as we were leaving, they were just coming in. And it just so happens every time we talk about him, we bump into him somewhere

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Lower_Hospital1268@reddit

Keep it going, I need to hear more.

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IntrovertedArcher@reddit

I was off work one afternoon because my Mum was being discharged from hospital after cancer surgery and I was going to pick her up. While I was waiting, I went on YikYak (for anyone who’s not heard of it, it was a location based chat app thing from about 10 years ago). I randomly got talking to a girl and we met up a couple of days later on bonfire night 2015. We’ve been together almost 9 years now. My Mum is fine now, but my partner and I have occasionally noted that if she’d not had cancer we’d never have met. Also coincidentally, a couple of months later we got a kitten for my Mum which was also born on the same day. Bonfire night 2015, a lot happened.

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

When Eurovision is on, we throw a party. You get randomly assigned a country in the final, and then you turn up in fancy dress for that country. One year, a mate who got Albania had to work late so just came straight to the party and didn't go home first to get his outfit, so he was just in casual clothes. When the votes were coming it at the end, the representative from Albania was wearing exactly what my mate was wearing, right down to the brand of t-shirt.

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cari-strat@reddit

Not me but my stepdad was driving to work on a very bitter snowy day. Car demisters weren't handling the job and screen iced up so he stopped and jumped out to scrape the windscreen again. Visibility being next to nothing, he didn't see the old lady standing right there at the roadside waiting for her son...who drove that exact make, model and colour of car. And as the screen had iced, she didn't see that it wasn't her son. So he jumps out, she jumps in, doors bang at the precise same second. She's fiddling in her handbag, he's scraping the screen, neither notices the other until he jumps back in and then.... arrrggh who the FUCK are YOU??😂😂😂

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loperaja@reddit

Did my masters in Leeds (I am not originally from the UK) and lived in a house share with some people who I am still friends with. I eventually moved out of that place but before leaving this Canadian girl rented one of the rooms. Never got to know her well but she was nice and very friendly like most Canadians. This lady was a teacher and after a few years in the UK she ended up moving to some other country, never heard much more of her. I went back to my home county to visit my family and friends like I try to do often and while in some random bar I bumped into her again! She was not only living there but also in the same apartment building as my brother! She worked as a teacher at my cousins school as well. She’s still living there with her partner (my brother moved out from that apartment and she did too though)

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Stingin_Belle@reddit

Not me but my in-laws although I was there at the time it happened... were sorting through some old photos and found a newspaper clipping in with the photos, they didn't know each other before the age of 35, the newspaper article was of mother in law winning a sporting competition in her teens, a she held it up to read the article aloud father in law spotted a picture of himself on the reverse side, he was also in the paper for another sporting event on the reverse side of this clipping that was no bigger than 3 inches square! Madness! They didn't even know each other then either!

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ForwardAd5837@reddit

Saw my next door neighbour in Perth, WA, then Bruge, Belgium a year later. No prior knowledge of either person taking those trips.

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gammonlord@reddit

Unmatched my ex gf on tinder (neither of us had deleted our profiles after getting together) because I realised I was getting a bit jealous and checking to see if she'd been online or changed her profile. Proud of myself for finally unmatching her, I logged into Reddit and the first post I saw was a screenshot some dude had with her trending on r/tinder ... 😂😭

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gammonlord@reddit

Here is the post! https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/s/oprQ3ydFO6

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orkelbob@reddit

I was at the first full team meeting in a job I had been in for 5 months. For context this was during Covid and I had taken paycut as I was changing field. I was sitting at a table with colleagues who were bitching about how the interesting cases go to another service doing a similar role that I had never heard of so I went home and looked it up. Within a week, jobs were advertised and I applied and was successful. Within less than a year in that post,posts at a higher grade came up that I was qualified for and the starting salary was 10k more a year than I would have been on at the top of the pay scale in the original job. Applied and got that. No one else at that table appears to have either applied for or been successful in securing a role in the service I now work in and I heard last week that they are being redeployed as roles now defunct. So glad for that overheard conversation

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IdeletedTheTiramisu@reddit

Was going on holiday to Croatia. Month before the entire country had a blackout. Then the airport we were flying from had a blackout. On the way to the airport we pulled into services, who were also having a blackout. As we were leaving the threshold of the airport the lights all flickered, it was very creepy.

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Xavilend@reddit

Late 90s, downloaded an Alan Partridge screensaver, as was the style at the time. Forgot about it. Left my pc on one night while watching Alan Partridge and the screens screensaver came on and played one of the random audio clip of his B&Q monologue perfectly in sync with the TV show. Freaked me out!

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StrategyKindly4024@reddit

I checked in to a hostel in Bogotá, after a very scary incident with a taxi (story for another day). The guy che king me in was acting a bit weird, asked me if I’d just checked out, stared at my passport a few times but said nothing else I got a few second glances the next day, and two people separately started talking to me like they had met me before, one said ‘hey I thought you were leaving’ Turns out some who looked exactly like me had checked out of the hostel the same day. The receptionist also told me later we had the same name too Missed my doppelgänger by a few hours, half way round the world

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Ooh_aah_wozza@reddit

Was interviewed for a job and had an email from the interviewer saying they were going to offer it to me but needed approval first, then I heard nothing. They stopped replying to my emails so I assumed they just decided to ghost me. Saw a post in an industry subreddit and a couple of clues in the post suggested the OP had just started working at the company I'd just interviewed for so I pm'd them to see what had happened. Turned out my interviewer had died and they'd been unable to access his emails to see who he'd been communicating with. Started work the following week thanks to seeing a random post on Reddit.

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mauriceminor1964@reddit

His happened to my Dad. He was sheltering in a doorway in London. He was on a business trip from the North of England. A young chap joined him, and they chatted. It turned out to be his cousin's son-in-law - they'd never met before.

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madcheco@reddit

This is Dull Man territory here, bear with me... My car has a digital odometer and trip meter and I always leave it on the trip meter. One random morning the other week I woke up and for some reason thought "I wonder if the odometer is coming up to a 1,000 number anytime soon", when I got in the car that morning and changed it over to the odometer it was sat on the drive on exactly 79,000 🤣

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ans-myonul@reddit

When I was 9 I went on holiday to France, met two kids from my school at the campsite. After a few days we moved to a second campsite, still in France, and met a different two kids from my school there

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twobittoucan@reddit

Similar story from me, except I went to Australia!

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811545b2-4ff7-4041@reddit

Mine is: Battled a British kid in a tennis tournament on a holiday at a French campsite. Lost. Two years later: I'm in the departure lounge of Los Angeles International Airport and who sits down opposite? That kid and his family.

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

ahhhh, the perfect opportunity to remind you of his victory 😁

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DarthMaulofDathomir@reddit

Walked under a turned off lamppost, jokingly said I accept Jesus as my lord and saviour and the lamppost turned on lol

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sbdart31@reddit

During GCSE German I sat next to a lad from a different friend group to mine, we spoke during classes etc but never outside of this class so it was only surface level stuff. Went on holiday to Florida with my family during the summer after the exams, one night we decided last minute to stop at a random Chinese restaurant. When we were led to our table we were seated on the table next to the same lad and his family who were out there too. Neither of us knew the other was going etc. Another one was when my dad left the army we went to Australia for 6 weeks, we were in a town about 30 min east of Melbourne when he bumped into someone he had done his basic training with 24 years previously who had also just left the army. They hadn't seen each other for 22 years and both ended up in the same shopping centre in Australia.

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Stevemachinehk@reddit

Moved into a flat in a Georgian house in Dublin in the early 90s. A couple of days after I had moved in I met an old friend of mine from the uk who was living in the flat below mine. Neither of us are Irish.

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Yorkshire_rose_84@reddit

Went to have a sauna after a gym session in London. Got chatting to a guy who had just moved to the area and he was asking me about the usual things, what’s good etc. He asked me my name and I gave it to him. He looked at me and then said that’s my name. Told him nah you’re pulling my leg. He showed me his gym membership, exact same name. I had an obscure surname at the time, Maloney, so the chances of meeting someone with that is quite rare. The same first name, even rarer. In the sauna….awkward haha. Proper random.

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Dazzling-Astronaut83@reddit

2 coincidences in 1 here. I had never in my life found a 4 leaf clover and I'm sat on some grass that was covered in clovers in Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, Korea. I'm talking to an ex girlfriend about clovers, 4 leaf clovers, their superstitious folklore, explaining all that to her. I grew up in the countryside and in all my life id never found a four leaf clover. As I'm saying this I notice that I'm staring at a perfect 5 leaf clover. I was amazed, the gf not so much. The chances of actually finding the clover at all let alone with the added coincidence of talking about never finding a clover was not significant to her at all. Anyway cut to a few years later and I'm stood in a field with a friend and there are loads of clovers. I'm telling them the above story and how much of a coincidence it was. I look down and the first thing I see was another 5 leaf clover.

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IsWasMaybeAMefi@reddit

A friday afternoon in 1983. I rang several pubs asking if they had any barman work. One pub said yes. Went in. Found out that just before I had called their fulltime barman had given his notice. Got the job. The owner's daughter was working behind the bar. We got married 3 years later. Two wonderful daughters. She died 2018. Had that guy not handed in his notice and had I now called at the perfect time .... who knows.

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CobaltBlue389@reddit

My dads ex wife (Lynne) married a new man, his name was Dave. They are Lynne and Dave Fazackerly. A common name in north West England, I suppose. However. I met my wife to be in north east Scotland. Her surname? Fazackerley. Her mum and dad's name? Dave and Lynne. Not related, in any way. So my parents in law share exactly the same names as my half brothers parents.

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NoIntern6226@reddit

Was away for the weekend with my partner in Glastonbury. Sat in the bar having a few drinks and got talking to these two men who were in their 60s. One of them was American but had moved from England when he was two. The town he was from is the town I live in.

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tmstms@reddit

It's not me, but our decorator, Paul, told us a really funny story. I live in Castleford and Rugby League is big here. Some years back, Paul went on holiday in Australia and he was walking on the beach shortly after he arrived, when he saw an older man jog past in a Castleford Tigers shirt. So he felt he had to stop him and ask the connection. Turned out it was the dad of one of the players. *Oh!* said Paul, *I had a drink with him just before I went to the airport* So the father invited him home and said: *Could you do us a favour and ring him up from YOUR mobile? He's really bad at picking up when he knows it's his folks.* And so Paul did and they all had a jolly chat.

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Scarred_fish@reddit

When clearing out my late Uncles house, my mobile rang, and it was him calling. Obviously gave me a shock! But it was just his number (landline) reassigned to one of my friends.

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Wide-Affect-1616@reddit

My then gf (now wife) and I got off a tube in London, went to wait for a bus, to head to see a flat for rent. At the bus stop was my last ex and a good mate I'd not seen for a couple of years. (They weren't together). We ended up living 5 minutes away from them both.

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TheToolman04@reddit

Only happened yesterday, I was on the phone to my dad, he was in his polytunnel at the allotment and said "I've been in agony the last few days with flu... OW FUCK", Me: "You ok?" him: "Yeah, bit of tubing fell on my head".

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Ordinary-Ad6408@reddit

My bike was stolen, I rebuilt the same bike and on my first ride to work saw someone riding my stolen bike. If I didnt rebuild another i wouldnt have come accross it. The guy couldnt argue because it was almost identical to the one I built.

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Equivalent_Tiger_7@reddit

Many years ago, bumped into someone in the same job, same model motorcycle (same year/colour,), same surname and was on the same task as me. Also lived about 2 miles from me.

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MitchellsTruck@reddit

One day, on holiday in Spain, two things... First, it was our first holiday away without parents. Three boys, three girls, sharing a flat in Benalmadena. Day three, the boys get bored of just lying on the beach, so we go for a walk to see how far down the coast we can get before the beach ends or we have to get the bus back. About an hour into our walk, we've been clocking all the topless women - we were 18 after all - and we see an attractive young lady get up and walk towards the sea, near where we were. We get closer, and it's the super hot girl from the year above. She's now at Uni, and on a trip with her Uni mates. She sees us and walks over for a chat, boobs fully out. Cares not a jot. That evening, we went out for dinner, and as we were walking in, a lady around 50 grabs my arm and asks "are you MitchellsTruck?" using my full name. Turns out she last saw me at my Christening, 18 years previously. Apparently I looked so much like my Dad, I had to be his son. (And no, she didn't have her boobs out.)

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Tony_Meatballs_00@reddit

Was playing CoD 2 one night back in the day. My initials were at the end of my username and some guy asked me what they stood for. I said they were my name but obviously didn't say it. He then private messaged me his own full name which was exactly the same as mine Hold on to your hats though because it turns out he had moved to America from my village in rural Ireland a few years before. No relation, we didn't know each other but a friend of a friend remembered him when I was telling the story in class

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Deaquire88@reddit (OP)

Did you stay in contact with him? Wonder what the odds are of that...universe is trying to tell you somethin!

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Tony_Meatballs_00@reddit

Nah we just laughed about it, it was my accent in game he clocked first.

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