19 coincidences that sound almost too weird to be true
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My first time in LA … walked down Melrose , went into a Dunking Donuts for my first ever USA dining experience ….. the person serving me was my uncles next door neighbour from Luton
— DavidGArnold (@DavidGArnold) June 10, 2019
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Arrived in Ankara airport, I went to buy a bottle of water to break a note for the taxi. The only other customer at the cafe was a (Turkish) university friend. He was the only person in the entire country that I had ever met.
— Alex Leonhardt (@A_Lnhrdt) June 10, 2019
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I was solo travelling through Eastern Europe in the mid-90's. Found myself in a random Hungarian town feeling alienated and alone. In a market, a kindly old man started chatting to me in English. Turns out he was my dad's boss for 10 years in small town Canada where I grew up.
— Laura Pachkowski (@laurapbristol) June 10, 2019
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I saved small value coins in a jar for a year & changed them up at a machine in supermarket for a shopping voucher worth £37.27. Did the weekly shop, no list, just picked bits up as I went along. Got to till, items scanned “That’s £37.27” said the checkout lady. Head exploded.
— tim colman (@timolsky) June 10, 2019
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My mum decided to pay me an unannounced visit in a town I'd just moved to, 200 miles from home. No address, no phone number, no mobile to call.
She got off a train and headed into town, and bumped into me on my way to the shop.
She sees this as proof that her plan wasn't insane
— James 🏳️🌈 (@sinkingcloset) June 10, 2019
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My dad was working in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) & he was having dinner with 2 colleagues in a tiny back street restaurant. Another westerner walks in alone. My dad invites him to join. Transpires the bloke came from the same estate in Glasgow and was babysat by my Aunt.
— This Dave (@ThisDave) June 10, 2019
17.
Years ago, biking on Skye, noticed hotel staff speaking Gaelic, asked if anyone knew the meaning of a Gaelic lament on an album sung by the great Maggie Bell.
They didn't. Next morning, looked up from breakfast, there was Maggie Bell.
Later in the bar, she sang it to me.— Sheep Attacks Rocket (@ShpAtcksRct) June 10, 2019
18.
When my dad was growing up in a small village, there was one Frenchman who was a regular at the pub. Many years later he and my mum fly to Paris, hop in a random taxi outside the airport, and who should be driving it?
— Naith Payton (@qbnaith) June 10, 2019
19.
Standing at the start of the 1989 London marathon, along with 30,000 other idiots from around the world, I turned to wish luck and shake hands with the bloke standing to my right. Turned out that he and I each worked at one of the two steel mills on Isle of Sheppey ~1mile apart.
— Glenn (@glenngetagrip) June 10, 2019
Someone with the Twitter handle @Hippokloppamus got us thinking about all the coincidences that nearly happen, but don’t.
This is a quality thread, it also makes you think about all of the massive coincidences that nearly, but didn't quite happen. You walked around a corner a second too late or you're looking the other way. You don't ask the right question, you don't turn over the tenner. Mad stuff.
— Hippokloppamus (@Hippokloppamus) June 10, 2019
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