Amazing co-incidences....any stories?

Sometime around 1990, I had a Ford Escort 1.3L which had a cassette player that when the tape reached its end, would automatically eject and play the radio instead. I'd recorded the Stone Roses first album from LP onto a C90 cassette. Only ten of the eleven tracks fitted on the A-side, so I recorded 'I am the Resurrection' on side B*.

Anyway, one sunny Sunday, I'm listening to this tape as I'm driving from Manchester back to London. When side A finished I turned it over and played side B. 'I am the Resurrection' came and went and, being lost in my own reverie, I absent-mindedly listened to the slight hiss of the tape for the next 35 minutes or so. Towards the end of that time, for some reason the song 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by The Blue Oyster Cult was playing in my head. Driving on auto-pilot, I was completely zoned out, then, from the vehicle in front of me I saw a stone fly up from the road and hurtle towards me. At the precise moment the stone struck my windscreen with a load CRACK, the tape ejected and the radio came on at full-blast playing 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by The Blue Oyster Cult.


* Home Taping Is Killing Music
 
Family holiday in Florida 12 or so years ago, we got off a ride and the family that got in our car was our next door neighbours
 
Last year just before we played Bayern Munich I had an old safe I opened with an angle grinder as it was going on the scrap pile.inside was a St Christoper who is the patron saint of travel.we had just set up a travel agency.then on the way up to alicante airport I went to look at a stray puppy to adopt.It was a German pointer called belle.the people who was looking after her were from holland and they were Manchester city fans who supported them since Paul bosvelt played for us.
 
Met a guy who lives in the flat across the road from ours inside one of the Pyramids in Egypt. Never seen him before then!
 
on a boarding trip two years ago in the French alps.

I got on a lift with two random skiers, who were both wearing yellow day glow hats. One was South African and in the alps for the first time. the other was a brit from down south somewhere and were chatting following the ice-breaker moment of the fashion faux pas of having the same headwear.

They mentioned children and both had a boy with quite an unusual first name, Harrison... WOW what a coincidence, they laughed.

I turned round and added that Harrison is my eldest This!...
 
A mate of mine told me one day he all of a sudden wondered how some friends of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, were doing. As he hadn't seen them in a few years this was a strange thought. That evening he called home to talk with his family and his mother quite upset told him the Raymond's died in a plane crash that day!

I do believe him as he was pretty shook up. And my family knew the Raymond's too. They did die in a plane crash.
 
Got one from my sister. Last year she walked into a bar in rural France as she was staying in a friends house, and saw her next door neighbour, and a couple sat with them said they were from a village near Oldham. My sister said we had a relative from there and it turned out they were next door neighbours of our relative. 2 big coincidences for the price of one.
 
foetus said:
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
I expect many of us have come across these, at least once in our lives......

My story....

I travel to Malta a lot, and a few years ago, on the plane back to England, I sat next to a woman about thirty five. We started engaging in small talk, like you do, and she mentioned that she was English, lived in Malta but had married a Maltese man, who owned a small sports shop on the island.......she went on to say she was travelling back to Lancashire for her father's seventieth birthday celebrations, he was in the furniture industry, extremely well off, and was having a marquee erected in the grounds of his house.

I asked what company it was, and it turned out it was fairly local to me, and I had bought some stuff from her dad's firm on several occasions....

We arrived home, I bade her farewell, and thought no more about it.

Then, around nine months later, I was on another flight returning to Malta, and this time sat next to an older lady, and we started chatting......it turned out her husband was in the furniture business, and she was going to Malta to visit her daughter, who was married to a Maltese man who owned a small sports shop...........

This was NINE months later, there were around 250 seats on each plane, I, or they could have sat anywhere....

I said "You are not going to believe this"..............
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Thanks foetus, i just burst out laughing as i was talking to a customer on the phone at work. :)
 
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