What are the odds?

[Rooter]

A bit akin to the irritations thread, but just random stuff..

Today, my estate agent phoned me. Not about the sale of my house, but to tell me he had received an amazon order i placed and it had been delivered to his house yesterday (about a mile from me) He is dropping it round later!

What are the odds that he knew me etc?

Any random weird things happen to you??

 

[JustOne]

I lost my passport once in a well known mafia area of Sicily, 18 miles from where I was staying.


4hrs later the door knocked at the house I was staying and someone handed me my passport



also...
I just had 2 sausage rolls, that was random as there's several things in the fridge I could have had instead.

 

[Alex1975]

I lost my passport once in a well known mafia area of Sicily, 18 miles from where I was staying.


4hrs later the door knocked at the house I was staying and someone handed me my passport






also...
I just had 2 sausage rolls, that was random as there's several things in the fridge I could have had instead.

The world health organization guidelines is only two so your right on it.

 

[Rooter]

I lost my passport once in a well known mafia area of Sicily, 18 miles from where I was staying.


4hrs later the door knocked at the house I was staying and someone handed me my passport

Do you think thats because they couldn't find anyone close to having your rugged good looks to make use of it??

 

[MegaSteve]

The number of times you bump into people you haven't seen for years in the most unlikeliest of places...

 

[Del_Boy]

The number of times you bump into people you haven't seen for years in the most unlikeliest of places...

Once bumped into an old uni mate at the Empire State Building - turned out we both worked in the same office block in London but on different floors!!

 

[upsidedown]

My sister in law took a party of children to Florida to Disneyworld and as the plane was taking off the captain informed the passengers you could see the shuttle taking off bu looking out off the window.
Turns out my future wife was also on the same plane as she'd also just been to Disneyworld with her children .

We also met at a golf course in France the roofer who did brother in laws roof in Blenheim New Zealand

 

[ruff-driver]

The number of times you bump into people you haven't seen for years in the most unlikeliest of places...

Like meeting an ex on a nudist beach in tenerife whilst with the wife, what are the odds

 

[JustOne]

I flew to Boston USA in 1993 and went to some seedy night club on the fringe of town that held about 100 people... the one girl I spoke to ('cos she was the best looking) happened to live 2 miles from my house


Also...
My only ever hole in one I was playing against my brother...... my Dad was walking the course looking for us and turned up at the tee box to see me hit - and I holed it.... the first shot he'd ever seen me hit. Who has their brother and Dad there as witnesses and the 1st shot your Dad ever sees you hit is a hole in one?

Also...
I set up my phone on 'video mode' for the first ever time
I decided to video myself trying to hit bullseyes on the dart board for the first ever time
I hit all 3 bullseyes

I mean who hits all 3 bullseyes the first time they've ever tried... let alone whilst recording it for the first ever time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA6UHDyV4s0

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Given the extent and complexity of the networks of people, places and events that make up our lives present and since we were born it would actually be a bit weird if we didn't experience coincidences. But it still makes you sit up and take notice when one occurs.

I recently showed an elderly lady I met and have known for a while in Guildford a photo of my mum taken a couple of weeks back. Also in the photo was my aunt. The lady looked at the photo and said of my aunt 'I think I know that lady - who is it?' I told her and as the lady is Scottish (chance of coincidence increased hugely with that) I mentioned that my aunt lived in Inverness. This ladies sister lives in Inverness. She asked me where my aunt lives - I said Culloden; the ladies sister lives in Culloden. Lady asks if my aunt goes to church - I say that yes she does. Turns out the Guildford ladies sister and my aunt both go to the same church in Inverness and are friends, and last time this random lady from Guildford was in Inverness visiting her sister, she went to church and was introduced to my aunt.

Well knock me down with a feather...

 

[JustOne]

^
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I was building a patio for a totally random elderly woman in Crawley who had seen an advertising leaflet of mine, got chatting about life/family etc and it transpired she grew up with my Nan (London) and even produced a pic of them together

 

[hovis]

I was with my wife and bumped into my ex on the great wall of china. (i dumped her for my wife) AWKWARD

 

[Doon frae Troon]

On the London underground,sitting, opposite from me was an old school classmate from my wee Scottish village.
First time I was walking in Picadilly Circus I was tapped on the shoulder and it was another ex class mate from the same village.
Population of the village was around 400.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I paired up with 2 lady golfers on holiday in South Carolina this year, turned out one of them was a nurse who trained under my great aunt at a hospital in East Kilbride.


PS....James, love the pause in your video before before you pick the camera up. Getting over the shock??

 

[Three]

A bit akin to the irritations thread, but just random stuff..

Today, my estate agent phoned me. Not about the sale of my house, but to tell me he had received an amazon order i placed and it had been delivered to his house yesterday (about a mile from me) He is dropping it round later!

What are the odds that he knew me etc?

Any random weird things happen to you??

Does this Estate Agent have a key to your house?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

about 1987 the boss n me decided we would go down to the south coast for August bank holiday weekend, we would find a B&B when we got there, as there was bound to be some....
Boss chose Swanage as she had been there as a kid,
So we drive down the main strip, no vacancies, bit further out was the same, eventually we saw a guesthouse with no sign at all, so stopped and rang the bell.
The lady who opened it said "Hello Philip" It was a girl I used to work with in the Bank who had moved with her hubby and his family to run a guest house somewhere on the south coast, and we just walked into it

Still didnt have any vacancies though

 

[chrisd]

I was at work, in a town about 18 miles from the town where I lived. I owned a plant and tool hire business. Someone I didn't know, rang and asked to hire a concrete mixer and wanted it delivered, and when I asked the address for the site he gave my home address

I was a bit stunned and queried the address and he said it was actually for a new house that they were going to start building next door!

 

[richart]

My father had his pilots wartime log book stolen from our house in the early 1970's. About five years ago, well after his death my sister searched his name on google, and it came up with an entry in Australia. There was an auction being held a few days later, and his log book was one of the items, together with a DFC, being sold. His medal had not been stolen so must have been another pilots. The only way to get the log book back was to buy it at the auction, which my mother did. She then resold the DFC that was not his.

My sister had never searched his name before, she was just bored one night, and if she had done it a few days later the log book would have gone to another home. Shame my father never knew it was recovered, as it was the only stolen possession he really ever missed. It was the story of his life through the second half of WW2. Took over 35 years but the log book is back with the family.:thup:

 

[JustOne]

PS....James, love the pause in your video before before you pick the camera up. Getting over the shock??

It dawned on me I needed to pick the camera up for a close-up without the darts going out of shot (so it didn't look like I'd cheated somehow).

That video is priceless to me as I still can't believe the odds of that happening on camera the first time it was tried. Could have been there weeks/months without success.

I haven't done it since.

 

[Heavy-grebo]

A few years back a mate of mine wanted to hire a DVD film from Blockbuster, I can't remember which one but it was new out at the time. He called in the shop but all copies were out, and the assistant said he should phone later as some were due back in. When he phoned the shop he got a digit wrong and called someones house by mistake instead of the shop, he asked "hello have you got a copy of the ----- film" and they said "yes I'm about to return it to the shop" so they both met up at the shop and he got his film. Weird...