What are the odds?

[gregers]

was playing golf at my track and teamed up with 2 guys having a knock,by the 3rd hole the usual banter of what you do etc,1 asked me where i worked then said his missus had just started there and do i know her?i asked her what deptmant,turned out she was our new secretary and had only been there 1 day.he asked me was i skiving or on a day off,day off says i so he rang her up to say he was playing golf with the carpenter.

went to goodwood festival of speed last year,heard a shout out,turned round there stood my old neighbour.

 

[Liverbirdie]

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:

Thats a cracking story, Rich - stuff like that can never be replaced.:thup:

 

[Tashyboy]

On the plane to Mauritius last month a bloke had an heart attack sat in the row in front of Missis T. Missis T was looking after him and the trolley dolly asked over the PA system if there is any Drs and nurses on the plane. Three nurses and one dr turned up. One of the nurses Missis T knows from work. The nurses partner is a dr who Missis T worked for when doing vibration white finger testing.

Went to watch Rod Stewart in at Edinburgh castle a couple of years ago. The manager of the pit was goin and spent 10 mins telling me how he would buy me a drink if we bumped into one another. Well we did bump into one another 10 yd from a pub and bein Scottish he never bought me a drink.

went to Jamacia for a holiday and was talking to someone at the bar. Someone overheard where I was from and asked if I knew Debbie and Martin. I did not have a clue. Missis T said " prat they live next door to us". It was martins brother who asked me.

Went to Kenya for a holiday and this woman says i know you, oops. She says do you know Stevie bensread. I says yeah he's a top lad who was in my group when I starting training at the pit in 1979. She says yeah we're now divorced he was putting it about.

Went on a baltic cruise 2 yr ago and was playing a game where the compare shouts bring me this, so you had to run up with a comb? And you get a point. Anyway he shouts I want a man up here in a bra. Missis T and her pal says spin on it. A woman on the next table says here wear this. She was gloriously big. Anyway I wore it and at the end of the night when shes walking off she says " I know you" Missis T's face was a picture. Turns out her son played football against my lad when they were kids and she recognised me. Her husband and Missis T has loads of "same mates". She works in our local ASDA.

 

[sev112]

20 odd years ago I went off inter-railing, didn't know where, just set off.
2 weeks later I bumped into my flat mate and his girlfriend in a church in Athens !

On holiday in Gran canaria this summer got chatting to a bloke in the hotel swimming pool while we we throwing balls to our respective kids. Turned out he works for the same company as me and we must have sat within 20ft of each other at the times I visited /worked out of his office in my manchester.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

I was getting ready to do a TV show once and was talking in the make-up room with my co-presenter. We'd known each other for years but then found out we had not only gone to the same school (albeit seven years apart) but the same English teacher had convinced us to become journalists. He had passed away a few years before but would have been so proud for two of his allegedly-star pupils both having made it so far in the profession.

 

[Norrin Radd]

I was getting ready to do a TV show once and was talking in the make-up room with my co-presenter. We'd known each other for years but then found out we had not only gone to the same school (albeit seven years apart) but the same English teacher had convinced us to become journalists. He had passed away a few years before but would have been so proud for two of his allegedly-star pupils both having made it so far in the profession.

are you famous PS ?

 

[Three]

Bumped into neighbours from 3 doors away whilst walking down the high street in Gibraltar.

I still would love to know if the OP's Estate Agent has a key to his house though, might explain the "coincidence" a bit better

 

[Fyldewhite]

I sold a set of irons on E-bay. Buyer was in Yorkshire. I e-mailed him to ask whereabouts, as I was on a Sunday Driver trip to Hollins Hall the following Sunday. "Oh, that's where I play" he responds.....sorted!

As a kid on holiday somewhere in South Wales we were at the top a a long rocky path down to the beach. There was a guy coming up the other way with his wife and kids who happened to be the bread delivery man for the shop next door to our house where my Mum worked!

 

[IanG]

My mother and father were born on the same day in the same hospital just a few hours apart but didn't get together until they were in their twenties. Made remembering their birthday easy !

 

[Rooter]

I still would love to know if the OP's Estate Agent has a key to his house though, might explain the "coincidence" a bit better

Haha! the company do! I should also say, I had not met this guy, he was on holiday when we had the valuation etc! So had never met him, he just recognized my name from paperwork in the office!!

 

[williamalex1]

What are the odds for 2 brother in laws dying[ separately ] on the same day. Now with the double up,
I still have 3 brothers in law still alive , what's the odds of the accumulator coming up ?.

 

[Leftie]

Back in the '60's my mate and I were driving down the (old) A30 to Cornwall in very slow moving traffic somewhere near Launceston and came to a halt. The slow moving traffic going out of Cornwall on the other side of the road also came to a halt. I glanced across and there was our friend Kay in the car with someone we wouldn't have suspected that she would be with.

Ooops

 

[JustOne]

My Mum divorced my Dad (Tony, born November 1937) and married a guy called Tony, born in November 1937 :mmm:

 

[freddielong]

This is now my favourite thread

 

[sev112]

Back in the '60's my mate and I were driving down the (old) A30 to Cornwall in very slow moving traffic somewhere near Launceston and came to a halt. The slow moving traffic going out of Cornwall on the other side of the road also came to a halt. I glanced across and there was our friend Kay in the car with someone we wouldn't have suspected that she would be with.


Ooops

Brilliant


One Friday after work a few years ago, as a bit of a trip down memory lane kind of thing, we went to a pub miles and miles away that we used to go to. Decided to go and sit in the private little snug at the end where we "bumped" into one of her (married) directors and one of the err.... rather younger sales staff. Couldn't understand why they weren't pleased to see us

 

[sev112]

Don't suppose the actual odds of this are very high really, but we were sitting at Gatwick at our gate waiting to board to go on last year's summer hols, talking to my daughter about the family we had met the year before on holiday, when they walked up and joined the queue behind us.

 

[rickg]

Met my wife on a blind date at the pictures then went for a meal. When it was time to go I said I would walk her to her car........we were parked side by side in a 1700 space car park.....

 

[Beezerk]

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

I really hope this is true

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Was out in Florida and played Kings Ridge near Orlando got paired up with these two lads from New York round went OK.

Went back and played the course 4 years later and got paired with the same guys again.

 

[Three]

Was in Puerto Banus on a lads holiday and, as you do, we kind of hung around with a group of girls each evening, they were from Northern Ireland.

Imagine my surprise when I bumped into one of them two weeks later in Dublin airport.