Coincidences?
Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:50 am
Have you ever had a coincidence that seriously freaked you out?
My most memorable one has got to be the time me and my friends were driving down a really dark and twisty country lane and we were talking about how in a horror film, this would be the point where a little girl ghost would pop out in front of us. We started discussing how freaky it would be if that actually happened to us. Needless to say, all of us got seriously spooked and by the time we got to my boyfriend at the times house, we were bricking it! Bearing in mind there was no one in the house at this point, we got to the front door and the lights turned off in the living room! I screamed. Loud. Before Andy realised that the lights were on a timer and turned off automatically at 11pm.
Another happened when I was holiday in Dubai. A local men came up to us and asked us if we were enjoying ourselves and where we came from. We told him and it turns out, he owned a taxi firm literally 2 minutes away from my best friend's house!
So any weird coincidences? Freak me out!
My most memorable one has got to be the time me and my friends were driving down a really dark and twisty country lane and we were talking about how in a horror film, this would be the point where a little girl ghost would pop out in front of us. We started discussing how freaky it would be if that actually happened to us. Needless to say, all of us got seriously spooked and by the time we got to my boyfriend at the times house, we were bricking it! Bearing in mind there was no one in the house at this point, we got to the front door and the lights turned off in the living room! I screamed. Loud. Before Andy realised that the lights were on a timer and turned off automatically at 11pm.
Another happened when I was holiday in Dubai. A local men came up to us and asked us if we were enjoying ourselves and where we came from. We told him and it turns out, he owned a taxi firm literally 2 minutes away from my best friend's house!
So any weird coincidences? Freak me out!
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:06 am
Okay, I've got one:
I download Moulin Rouge (Don't kill me, mods!) while I am away at work and school and such. I come home and watch it. Later that night, I go over to a friend's house, and find out that they are singing a duet, "Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong," by Joe Cocker. I tell them that the version in Moulin Rouge is better, which it is, in my opinion. I go back home to look for it (again, don't kill me, mods!) and so I ask my sister if she knows where I can find it. She tells me that some of her friends gave her a copy of the soundtrack to Moulin Rouge that very same day! So I got a copy like that *snaps fingers* ! Pretty darn coincidental, if you ask me, considering my sister lives a few hundred miles away from me, in fact in another country.
Is that a good enough coincidence to freak you out, Helen?
I download Moulin Rouge (Don't kill me, mods!) while I am away at work and school and such. I come home and watch it. Later that night, I go over to a friend's house, and find out that they are singing a duet, "Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong," by Joe Cocker. I tell them that the version in Moulin Rouge is better, which it is, in my opinion. I go back home to look for it (again, don't kill me, mods!) and so I ask my sister if she knows where I can find it. She tells me that some of her friends gave her a copy of the soundtrack to Moulin Rouge that very same day! So I got a copy like that *snaps fingers* ! Pretty darn coincidental, if you ask me, considering my sister lives a few hundred miles away from me, in fact in another country.
Is that a good enough coincidence to freak you out, Helen?
Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:34 pm
There was the time I went to another country (I don't remember which. Possibly Fiji or New Zealand) and ran into a girl I was acquaintances with from my school. It was kinda creepy.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:39 pm
I was in the airport in Edmonton, in line for my boarding pass, and in the same line was one of my teachers from Toronot, in Edmonton! so yeah, that was pretty weird, on many levels
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:47 pm
Well, I can't think of anything that has happened to me, but one day when my dad was at work he said a customer came up to him and asked him a question, then they started talking and the customer said that he lived in a small town about 3 hours away from Austin. My dad said he used to live there too, and as it turns out they're like half-cousins or something. 
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:52 pm
OMG I totally know what you mean! Like this one time, I was thinking about a toothbrush... and a toothbrush fell from nowhere and hit me on the head.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:53 pm
oh i have loads of these!
We were in a random town in the middle of mexico and ran into a random person that we knew from the med school (in england).
My aunt and uncles friends from when they used to live in germany when i was younger turned out to be living in perth when we first arrived here. but ALSO someone my dad knows was saying about how they knew someone that was trying to decide between uni in wales or australia - and it was the same people - completely unrelated link there!
Before i was born my parents were trying to organise a boating holiday in france, but would rather go with people they knew. So they invited a couple who they were friends with and my aunt an uncle. however, my aunt and uncle didnt know this other couple, so in the end they decided against the plan in case everyone didnt get on, and ended up going on holiday just the two of them. BUT the other couple and my aunt an uncle also booked separate holidays, and so happened to book onto the same holiday (or the same place or something), met while they were there and got on like a house on fire! (As the saying goes)
Oooh another one. i was in my halls at uni when i first started there, in a random flat below me as i didnt have any flatmates yet. And in walks a pair of guys, as one of the guys was friends with one of the guys in the flat i was in. the other guy was a guy i knew from school and had no idea was going to be at uni, let alone in my halls!!! I ended up living with him in 2nd year actually, he was an awesome housemate!
thats all i can think of right now
We were in a random town in the middle of mexico and ran into a random person that we knew from the med school (in england).
My aunt and uncles friends from when they used to live in germany when i was younger turned out to be living in perth when we first arrived here. but ALSO someone my dad knows was saying about how they knew someone that was trying to decide between uni in wales or australia - and it was the same people - completely unrelated link there!
Before i was born my parents were trying to organise a boating holiday in france, but would rather go with people they knew. So they invited a couple who they were friends with and my aunt an uncle. however, my aunt and uncle didnt know this other couple, so in the end they decided against the plan in case everyone didnt get on, and ended up going on holiday just the two of them. BUT the other couple and my aunt an uncle also booked separate holidays, and so happened to book onto the same holiday (or the same place or something), met while they were there and got on like a house on fire! (As the saying goes)
Oooh another one. i was in my halls at uni when i first started there, in a random flat below me as i didnt have any flatmates yet. And in walks a pair of guys, as one of the guys was friends with one of the guys in the flat i was in. the other guy was a guy i knew from school and had no idea was going to be at uni, let alone in my halls!!! I ended up living with him in 2nd year actually, he was an awesome housemate!
thats all i can think of right now
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:57 pm
Ooh, I have another one!
Okay, at my old school, there was a History/Geography teacher that taught my class. And she was really short. Really nice though. Then I moved schools, and at my new school was going down to the music department with my friend, and we walked past a classroom with a short teacher. And I mentioned it to my friend, saying "He reminds me of my old teacher, she was about the same height".
Turns out she's his wife.
Okay, at my old school, there was a History/Geography teacher that taught my class. And she was really short. Really nice though. Then I moved schools, and at my new school was going down to the music department with my friend, and we walked past a classroom with a short teacher. And I mentioned it to my friend, saying "He reminds me of my old teacher, she was about the same height".
Turns out she's his wife.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:36 pm
No one's even going to believe this.
Me and a few of my friends were on a plane, and we were all first time fliers. We were all scared, and we started talking about if other people would be scared. Then we got talking about if Mike Tyson would be scared of flying.
Then someone said 'No'.
Turned around, and there was Mike Tyson, sitting in the row behind us.
Me and a few of my friends were on a plane, and we were all first time fliers. We were all scared, and we started talking about if other people would be scared. Then we got talking about if Mike Tyson would be scared of flying.
Then someone said 'No'.
Turned around, and there was Mike Tyson, sitting in the row behind us.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:34 pm
Jen wrote:No one's even going to believe this.
Me and a few of my friends were on a plane, and we were all first time fliers. We were all scared, and we started talking about if other people would be scared. Then we got talking about if Mike Tyson would be scared of flying.
Then someone said 'No'.
Turned around, and there was Mike Tyson, sitting in the row behind us.
Now that would be funny/very scary.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:33 pm
I was at the movies they just built in my neighborhood the other day and i saw my principal eating lunch and "hanging with her peeps".
its kind of scary to think about what a teacher does in their spare time...
its kind of scary to think about what a teacher does in their spare time...
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:43 pm
I have those ones where you'll talk about something and then it'll be brought up in some other way in some other completely unrelated part of life.
Like I was asking my boyfriend the other day if they ever recovered The Scream by Edvard Munch, and less than a week later the painting was recovered.
Or today I was talking to my boyfriend(okay, I talk to my boyfriend a lot, because he's the only one who listens) and I accidentally hit my head on some concrete(I do that a lot too), and I said, "Did you ever notice how, when you hurt yourself, if you laugh you barely notice the pain?" Then, half an hour later in Psychology, my teacher explained the gate control theory of pain to us. Basically painful and nonpainful nerve impulses compete to reach the brain, so if you start doing something--like laughing--you increase the number of nonpainful impulses, and they choke out the painful ones and decrease the feeling of pain.
My favorite coincidence of the moment happened on the couches in the Oswald(yay Oswald!) Building of my school. I sat down near a pretty young lady who complimented me on my bag. We talked for awhile, exchanged AIM screen names, and because I have a break in my classes when she's waiting for her ride, we continued to talk when we met on the couches.
Several days later, I realized her AIM screen name is also the screen name of a very nice member on here. Dots connect very slowly for me sometimes. But there aren't that many people using the name "PuddingofEvil" in the world, and it turned out that these two are the same person. First time I've ever run across someone online and offline in completely unrelated circumstances, and very unlikely indeed.
Like I was asking my boyfriend the other day if they ever recovered The Scream by Edvard Munch, and less than a week later the painting was recovered.
Or today I was talking to my boyfriend(okay, I talk to my boyfriend a lot, because he's the only one who listens) and I accidentally hit my head on some concrete(I do that a lot too), and I said, "Did you ever notice how, when you hurt yourself, if you laugh you barely notice the pain?" Then, half an hour later in Psychology, my teacher explained the gate control theory of pain to us. Basically painful and nonpainful nerve impulses compete to reach the brain, so if you start doing something--like laughing--you increase the number of nonpainful impulses, and they choke out the painful ones and decrease the feeling of pain.
My favorite coincidence of the moment happened on the couches in the Oswald(yay Oswald!) Building of my school. I sat down near a pretty young lady who complimented me on my bag. We talked for awhile, exchanged AIM screen names, and because I have a break in my classes when she's waiting for her ride, we continued to talk when we met on the couches.
Several days later, I realized her AIM screen name is also the screen name of a very nice member on here. Dots connect very slowly for me sometimes. But there aren't that many people using the name "PuddingofEvil" in the world, and it turned out that these two are the same person. First time I've ever run across someone online and offline in completely unrelated circumstances, and very unlikely indeed.
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:54 pm
I saw someone I went to school with at Blackpool once and I was like woah, coincidence! A few years later we went to Blackpool again and you'd never guess what. I saw her again!
Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:01 am
Timers are the breeding grounds for the best coincidences
The radio started playing some horrible song at my freinds house, so i kinda waved my arms and commanded it to stop. It did.
Perfect timing
I had no idea it was on a timer
For that one moment, i was awesome
The radio started playing some horrible song at my freinds house, so i kinda waved my arms and commanded it to stop. It did.
Perfect timing
I had no idea it was on a timer
For that one moment, i was awesome
Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:19 am
zorg wrote:For that one moment, i was awesome
Its a shame thats the only moment in your life you have been!