Strange Coincidences Contest (WIN 300 GEEKGOLD!!!!!)
Mark Klassen
Canada
Mission
British Columbia
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To celebrate strange things, I am holding a contest. Please post the strangest, most bizarre, unlikliest coincidences that have ever happened to you. The contest will run until the end of February and prizes will be awarded according to the number of thumbs each entry receives.
Prizes:
1st Place: 50 
2nd Place: 30
3rd Place: 20
4 random thumbers of this list also get 50
I've started the list with a few examples of my own, though I won't be eligible to win. You may enter up to 5 times.
UPDATE:
Raiko Puust
Estonia
Keila
Harju Maakond
Raiko & Agnes Forever! Feel the Love and Feel the Warmth. Happiness is 2 hugs plus 3 kisses every hour...:D (http://mrboardgames.wordpress.com/)
Addicted Estonian gamer with big heart and direct winning attitude. Need any help with something, just ask. Need some GG for something, just ask. Need something to be translated, just ask. Meanwhile, behave! :D (http://mrboardgames.wordpress.com/)
has donated an additional 100 for this contest. So now we will award a second and third place prize as well as another random thumber.
UPDATE 2:
Curt Hnatiuk
United States
St. Louis
Missouri
has, in a bizarre coincidence, also donated an additional 100 for this contest. Now we will have an additional two random thumber prizes. Furthermore, to celebrate coincidences, all names will be thrown back in the hat before each new random thumber draw. Thus the same person could win ALL FOUR random thumber prizes!!!
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Mark Humphries
Philippines
Unspecified
Metro Manila
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In a place over 2,000 miles from my birthplace my wife introduced me to a coworker of hers. As we chatted we realized we were born on the very same morning in the same hospital.
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Dany Majard
United States
Manhattan
Kansas
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About 11 years ago, back in France, I am playing cards in the common's room with my friends, at the dorm I was living in. I see the back of a lady that for dome reason I had fallen for a few days prior while she was cooking. As I finally got to see the front, I told my friends that she had found the wrong people to hang out with and that I'd fix that.
Fast forward a year and a half. By that time she is my first, my beloved first. I had courted her and it had been fantastic. I knew of her ex-boyfriend that tried to force her to do things she was not ready to and somehow it made me feel like a super hero to have saved her and to be the one treating her well. He was from far away and, as far as she knew was nowhere near our university town.
That summer, after about two month of potential roommates consecutively dropping out of the deal I convince my best friend to leave his apartment and live with me. We find a place after three weeks of search and first coincidence :
He is a drummer and the street is called Rue Tambour (drum street).
Fantastic, though the real gem did not come until she came to the apartment. There, at the bottom of the stairway was a pile of misplaced mail and adds of all kind. She's browsing through our misplaced mail and finds a bunch of strange letters send to my address. The name on these letters was
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): her ex-boyfriend's !!
Shivers through my spine. Bad omen if there are such things. It turns out that during that time and for unknown reasons he had moved to our town and lived in the apartment I rented after so many unsuccessful agreements.
I would like to know how you think the story ends.
The truth is that
Spoiler (mouseover to reveal): while things seemed good while I lived there, I got dumped right before I moved out of the apartment.
Coincidence ?
EDIT: grammar
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Matthew Cordeiro
United States
Cumberland
Rhode Island
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A number of weird birthday coincidences in my family.
My sister, my father, and I have bithdays in a 10-day span in June. (I'm not a twin.)
My wife was born 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day after me.
My mother-in-law and her sister have the same birthday, except they were born 4 years apart.
My son has a couple important family dates right around his birthday:
March 20 - the day his grandmother passed away
March 21 - his birthday
March 22 - his other grandmother's birthday
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Board Game: Cruise
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Mike West
United Kingdom
Guildford
Surrey
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Not one about me, but my parents...
They were on a cruise around the northern part of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef on holiday. They ended up sitting on a table with another English couple and obviously conversation turned to where they lived.
This couple had emigrated to Australia only the previous month, so my parents asked where they had lived in the UK. They replied they had recently moved from Faversham, a small town in the North of the county of Kent. 'Oh', my mother replied, 'That's where our daughter lives, whereabouts exactly in Faversham?'.
They replied, and to the surprise of everyone, it was the house that my sister had bought the month before (with help from my parents)... from them!
So, a little coincidence that they had met, but really weird while on a ship near Australia!
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Mike West
United Kingdom
Guildford
Surrey
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I had a VERY VERY similar experience to Russ on page 1.
I was staying for a week at the Excalibur (Cheap and hilariously fake British Castle) when i received a phone call to my room.
'Hi Mike, how's things?'..
'Err, fine, who are you?'...
'It's Rick, when you coming to visit?'...
'Rick Who?'...
'Stop messing with me Mike, it's Rick.. You are always making jokes you SOB..'
'Err, i think you have the wrong guy...'
'Really? Mike West yeah?
'Yep'
'From England?'
'Yep'
'Staying at the Excalibur for a week?'
'Yep'
'Coming to visit Barb and me this week?'
'Nope'
'Oh, i'm f'ing sorry Mike, i meant, sorry, oh wow, i apologise, wow... sorry'
'No worries...'
*click*
*ring ring*
'Hi Mike'
'No, you have still got the wrong Mike'
'Oh, Sh..'
10 mins later
'Hi is that Mike West?'
'Yeah.'
'It's Mike West here, Rick wants me to buy you a drink to apologise.'
'Oh, cool, sure..'
And that was how i got a couple of free cocktails...
The next day i was at a rock clothing store and when i handed over my credit card, the girl behind the counter said 'Oh, my ex was called Mike West, weird eh?'... I think that was more a chat up line, otherwise there are far too many Mike Wests in Vegas!
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Dwayne Wood
United States
Ozark
Missouri
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Fail #1:
In high school, I took my then girlfriend/fiance (how dumb i was!) to ride in a hot a balloon that was given free rides as part of a local festival. I have a fear of heights so this was a big undertaking for me. We were next in line when they stopped the balloon rides due to unexplained issues with the hot air engine. The balloon ride never happened and the relationship would eventually end.
Fail #2:
In college, I took my girlfriend to rid in a free hot air balloon as part of homecoming festivities. We were next in line when they shut the balloon rides down due to the sky getting too dark. The balloon ride never happened and the relationship would eventually end.
Fail #3:
Again in college, I took my girlfriend to ride in a hot air balloon, this time it was a fund raiser at a church bazaar. I paying so this time it would surely happen..... We were next in line when they shut the balloon rides down due to running out of gas. The balloon ride never happened and the relationship would eventually end.
Ultimate success....I am now married to none of the above with two great boys. We have not and will never attempt to get on a hot air balloon.
I tell this story and no one ever believes it.
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Dwayne Wood
United States
Ozark
Missouri
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First son's birth was at 4:19 on 4/1/9.
Second son's birth was at 11:22 on 2/21/11.
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-matt s.
United States
Eugene
Oregon
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blog/22
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I was at a track meet in high school many years ago. They were running the girls 400m race (1 lap around the track). The time was displayed on a big screen and showed time to hundredths accuracy.
The girl out in front was on our team and two of my teammates were guessing at her time to the second - 55, 56, etc. I guessed something and then added a guess to hundredths of a second - something like 54.21 Since she was in the lead they stopped the timer as she crossed the finish line - and my guess was exactly the time displayed! Boy we had a good laugh about that.
Along the same lines (although not quite a 'coincidence' perhaps) we were having a discussion between my friend and his mom about time and how it's difficult to measure time exactly. She had both of us and my friend's brother close our eyes and stand in a line. We were to step forward when we thought exactly 1 minute was reached. She started a timer and said start. His brother stepped forward first, then me, then my friend. It turned out I had stepped forward at exactly 1 minute!
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-matt s.
United States
Eugene
Oregon
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blog/22
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Another definitely weird coincidence was when we sold our first house. The people who ended up buying had been shown the house while we were there (I think it was a last minute appointment and we had to be home for some other reason), so we actually met them (not always typical when dealing with Real Estate Agents.
Well, on moving day we had to be out by a certain time (theoretically) and we were running like crazy to get all the last things out and get the house cleaned up. And, because it was our first house it was an emotional day, particularly for my wife.
So, after we were done we were exhausted and hungry. We went to Red Robin for dinner. When they seated us, in the booth next to us were the new home owners! I don't think we've ever seen them again since then.
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Board Game: Cocaine
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
United States
New York
When the world hands you a Jeffrey, furry walls will make it fine.
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This is not about me, but is funny nonetheless:
The once Mayor of Washington, DC, a certain Marrion Barry was convicted of purchasing crack cocaine and smoking it with a prostitute. Having been caught on videotape, he still tried to weasel his way out of it. This being Washington, DC, though, he was subsequently re-elected.
At the Clinton White House the Administration held a State dinner with dignitaries invited from nearby local governments and the area's embassies. The event's planner, in their infinite wisdom, came up with a seating arrangement to had said Mayor Barry right next to the ambassador of Colombia. [insert your own joke here]
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David Thompson
United States
Portland
Oregon
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My first year of teaching was in LA, and I flew home to Portland for Christmas. I sat next to an older gentleman on the flight, which had a stop in Portland before continuing on to Seattle.
He asked if I was heading home for the holidays, and I inquired as well.
"No, I'm visiting my son in Seattle, I'm actually from North Dakota."
"I was born in North Dakota", I replied, "My parents grew up there."
"What part?"
"Cavalier County. My mom's from the county seat, Langdon, and my dad's from a small place called Wales."
"What's your mom's maiden name?"
"Jacobsen**." (changed just in case)
"My uncle owned some property up in Langdon when I was a boy. The Jacobsens farmed that land. They had a boy, right?"
"Yeah, my uncle Harvey is the oldest."
"When I was twelve, my uncle brought me up to the farm, and I stayed there for the summer. There was just the boy, though, they didn't have any girls yet."
My grandparents both died when my mom was eighteen. So it turns out that the guy sitting next to me on the plane has spent the summer as a child living with my grandparents, whom I've never met.
Crazy.
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Kyle Bevan
United States
Cheney
Kansas
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About 10 years ago, I owned a little ring made of hematite that I picked up from some gift shop in Missouri. I always used to think of all the best times of my life while I held this little ring so whenever I got depressed, all I would have to do is hold it and a flood of good memories would cheer me up again.
When I met my first girlfriend, I took her to an earthen pier at a local lake here in Kansas and gave her the ring. She loved it and wore it all the time. It was her prized possession but it ended up breaking in half when a car door closed on her hand.
A few years later, we broke up and I was really upset about the whole ordeal. To cheer myself up, I decided to tag along with some friends when they decided to go walking around the state park by the aforementioned lake. I decided to take a detour and went to the same pier I had taken my girlfriend to 2 years earlier. I stood in the exact same spot I had when she was with me and I was remembering the night we shared together so long ago. Suddenly, something on the ground by my feet caught my eye. I leaned over and picked up a little shiny, circular object and I was astounded. I held in my hand a ring nearly identical to the one I had given my girlfriend over 2 years previous.
I have no idea HOW it got there. It's not like this is a spot frequented by a lot of people. There's only a few fishermen that seldom go there. It's like some higher force had placed it there to show me that I could be happy again and that nothing happens on accident. Needless to say, I put the ring on a string and have been wearing it around my neck ever since.
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Bill Allen
Australia
Ngunnawal, Canberra
ACT
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#1 Special Dates
I have only two uncles (brother of my father and brother-in-law of my father). We all share the same birthday.
In addition, my father was born on his father's birthday.
Finally, both my mother, and my mother-in-law both have their birthdays, the day following their respective wedding anniversaries.
#2 The Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is a big horse race in Australia that is often described as 'The Race that Stops a Nation' and is even a public holiday in metropolitan Melbourne.
As a kid, my younger brother dreamt the winner of the Melbourne Cup the night before the race ... three years running!
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Randall Peek
United States
Preston
Connecticut
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The game listed is primarily because the initials of my mother's cousin who figures so prominently in this story, due to her marriage to a man with the last name of O'Berg, spells the word 'SLOB.'
My parents grew up Reno and Virginia City, Nevada, with the majority of the time in Virginia City. The population at the time was only several hundred at best, and my father especially was happy to leave it for more populated (and less snowbound) climes.
The first city that we moved to from Reno was San Jose, CA. I had a couple childhood friends there, but we moved away just after the completion of kindergarten. Keep in mind that one of these friends had the first name of Harlen, hardly the most common of names...
We lived in a couple different towns in Southern California, settling in for five years in Simi Valley, just outside of the San Fernando Valley. I became involved in theater and became involved with a girl named Linda who I met at a cast party. We were all of 14 at the time, just going into ninth grade.
Linda and I told our parents about each other, and it became shockingly clear that our parents actually knew each other from many years earlier and several hundred miles away. Linda's mother Joanne was the childhood best friend of my mom's first cousin, Sharon.
We moved to Ventura, some thirty or forty miles distant, so I did not see Linda as often, and she eventually succumbed to a congenital heart condition. Strange coincidence number two is that Sharon, who lived about a hundred and twenty miles away, showed up one day out of the blue to visit us, something that she had never done before. She said that she simply had the urge to come see us. Five minutes after she arrived, Joanne, her childhood friend called us, telling us that Linda had passed away.
Third strange conicindence happened a couple years later when Sharon's teen-aged daughter Kathy came to visit us. She was a sweet, pretty little blonde who seemed to be completely without guile. Naive? Perhaps, but just a sweet, sweet girl. While visiting, she told us that she had a new boyfriend who was my age, and that his name was Harlen. We asked if he had a redheaded sister named Karen, and if his parents were named Pat and Ernie. She was astonished that we had nailed it on every count.Yes, she was dating my childhood buddy who I had lost track of fifteen years earlier, and who had also moved about four or five hundred miles away from San Jose.
That is, in my opinion, the Trifecta of Weird Coincidences. To this day I am astonished that three things so unlikely could have happened involving such a small subset of the world's population, and at such distances...
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Hugo Olsson
Sweden
Karlstad
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Perhaps I should save this story for "the stupidest thing I ever did" geeklist, which I probably would stand a good chance of winning outright. But it's a true story, and there is a coincidence at the end.
Back in '96 I was a student in Uppsala, Sweden. In my spare time I was doing some photo work for a student magazine. We were always hungry for fresh ideas, and someone had came up with the notion of making a story out of "the ugliest house in Stockholm." So I found myself walking around the streets of Stockholm, looking for a suitably ugly building.
After a while I thought I found one, a big structure in grey, brute-style concrete. Next to it was a little knoll from which I could get a good overview of the compound. Problem was, there was a fence around both the building and the knoll, and the gate was locked. So I waited a while and along came a man who said something foreign into a microphone, the gate opened and I slunk in behind him before it closed. I climbed the knoll, unpacked my camera bag and took my pictures. As I was packing up again I noticed a guy standing below the knoll, looking at me. Then he said something unintelligeble in the same foreign language the man at the gate had used.
"I don't understand", said I, amicably, "do you speak english?"
"Zis is ze Russian embassy", said the guy, "pleaze come wiz me."
Speechless, I tagged along and we walked up to the ugly building where another guy - who was more of a goon, short, heavy set and wearing a black trenchcoat - was waiting. By this time I was imagining interrogation rooms, bright lamps and long harsh interviews, for hours without end.
But the goon turned out to be relatively friendly. I explained the situation, first to them and then to the Swedish guards which were posted at the main gate, and they let me walk - they didn't even touch my camera bag.
Having had enough of ugly buildings for one day, I went straight back home to Uppsala. Congratulating myself on having gotten out of that situation without a hitch.
But here comes the coincidence:
The next day, in Uppsala, on my way to the campus, I was approached by a scruffy dude who asked me for directions in broken english - with a russian accent. He spooked the hell out of me, and I kept seeing Russian agents everywhere over the next few days.
In fact, I'm still not even sure it was a coincidence.
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Ed Kowalczewski
United States
Buffalo
New York
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Years ago, two friends and I planned a Disney cruise and park visit. Made reservations a year in advance and were going all out- Grand Floridian, nice suite on ship. I had found out an acquaintance was getting married in Disney in the same month, but didn't pay attention to the date. Our mutual friend Keith was to be a groomsman.
While dining in Narcoossee's, the three of us travelling together see a wedding reception, and I mention that I know someone getting married in Disney that same month. Sure enough, I spot Keith at the head table, and say "I know that couple getting married!"
After finishing dinner I went and congratulated the bride and groom, said hello then-shocked Keith and one other person I knew, and left.
I now game regularly with Mr Groom, and we still joke that I travelled 1000 miles just to crash his wedding.
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Charles Lewis
United States
O Fallon
Missouri
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My older daughter was born May 1, 2004 at 2 am or 5/1/04 0200
My younger daughter, who was adopted, was born October 2, 2008 at 4 am or 10/2/08 0400.
The kicker? Said younger daughter was born at the same hospital as my wife, who was herself adopted.
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Scott Smith
United States
Duncan
South Carolina
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I suppose it's a coincidence that this GeeekList should occur at this time since my incident only happened a week or so ago, otherwise I wouldn't have anyplace to talk about it...
Anyway, one of our FLGS Boardwalk was hosting a GameDay and had rented out the banquet room of a local motel for the day. I was one of the first to arrive that morning and was soon joined by several of my GeekBuddies:
Sisyphean Gamestacker
United States
Taylors
South Carolina
Robert M
United States
Greenville
South Carolina
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United States
Greer
South Carolina
Entropy Seminar:
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Before settling down to play something, we had the prerequisite discussion on our newest acquisitions and what we had brought with us that day. After a few minutes of chit-chat Tim pulled out Blooming Gardens from his bag and began a short description. He had just finished when I happened to glance at the artwork on the wall over his left shoulder and... well the below picture pretty much sums it up...
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Adam Faber
United States
Kirkland
Wa
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So I used to run a LARP (That's a Live Action Role Playing game for those that didn't know.) We played Vampire the Masquerade. (Yeah yeah...I'm one of those kinds of geeks.)
So, I crafted this big huge storyline about a company called Xymogenetics (a company that exists in real life here where I live.) Created this big plot where they captured characters, took their blood to do tests on it and see if they could harness the powers of vampires from it.
As the plot progressed, we introduced a character known only as 13. He was Project 13 and he managed to escape from the laboratory. The plot was wonderful to run. A fantastic tale that could only really happen in a fake universe where Vampires got to roam around and prey on the populace.
One month after the story completed. Front page of our local news. Xymogenetics has had a huge breakthrough with their project. They were working on finding a way to synthesize some specific function of blood to better deal with blood borne pathogens.
The name of the project? Project 13.
If only this were the only thing to ever be that creepy of a coincidence that came out of that game...
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Adam Faber
United States
Kirkland
Wa
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So, I was running a LARP (See item 144 for details if you forgot.
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We crafted this other huge storyline where a Demon had been set free on the populace and was making deals. We had this huge, long, drawn out story where the players had to solve various mysteries that matched up with different tarot cards.
When the players placed the location of each "tarot puzzle" the characters had to solve onto a map of the city, they discovered that it drew a giant pentacle, revealing where the Final Battle would take place.
This final battle happened to be revealed to take place on a major highway bridge over Lake Washington. The characters did everything they could to get the bridge closed down for "annual maintenance" in the game world. The did everything they could to get that bridge closed on a very specific date so they could have this giant battle with the Demon and the spawn of hell he was attempting to free.
The day that date rolls around in the real world, the bridge gets closed down. The reason the city gave? First ever annual maintenance.
Me? I think the world was saved that day...
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Scott Josephus
United States
Illinois
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This was over 25 years ago, but my uncle, who lived in Iowa had just adopted his daughter. My mother was a teacher, but had been doing some extra work over the summer handing out food samples in a grocery store.
One day, I was staying at my grandmother's and when she came home, she exclaimed, "You'll never believe what just happened to me!"
A young lady who also was demoing foods had set up her display next to my mother and they were talking. She was in town visting family, although she normally lived in Iowa. She had just given a baby up for adoption. After comparing birth weights, Size, name, and so forth, they determined that she was the birth mother of my adopted cousin.
My mother told her that she belived it was God's way of telling her that the baby went to a loving home. Years later, after she was an adult, my adopted cousin did, in fact, get back in touch with her birth mother.
Sometimes, things happen for a reason, I like to believe.
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reading previous entries I thought that generally I have had the same things as mentioned before (like guessing if I will win a prize in a draw or meeting someone I know in most unexpected occasions), but... then I remembered another story that I noticed last year.
The thing is - i am from Latvia and nothing (BIG) ever happens here (in terms of a newsworthy crime or other international news material).
But what I noticed, is that when something does happen, it does while I'm away (I guess thats a good thing).
The two most notorious episodes:
In year 2000, I went to Germany to work for a few month when I read that there has been bombing in Riga supermarket. I think the first and only such case in Latvia...
I remembered this last year, when we went on a vacation in france, when we got to know that there has been a heist on a Casino in Latvia. (not an everyday thing here).
makes me think I better not have any vacations... for the sake of my country 
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Kevin Shillinglaw
Canada
Kitchener
Ontario
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My wife and I were visiting a couple that are friends of ours. Now, I've know the husband of the couple since high school and after many, many years we both ended up living in the same area (no where near where we grew up).
We had our 4 month old daughter with us. We were getting ready to leave when the couple said that we could have their free-standing Jolly Jumper. This was great as we needed something like this. They said they got it from friends of theirs and were told to pass it along when they were ready.
The next day I post on Facebook that we got a great Jolly Jumper from our friends (and I did name them). After a couple of hours a woman commented that she was glad that her Jolly Jumper made it to yet another family.
Now, this woman and her husband were introduced to us through friends that my wife knew before we were married. Over the past few months we had been given quite a few things from my wife's friends' friends. I thought that maybe she had gotten a little mixed up about the Jolly Jumper.
I was getting ready to comment about where we got the Jumper from when my friend posted a comment asking how the woman knew me! As it turns out, and here's where it gets a bit confusing, my friends met my wife's friends' friends a few years ago and they themselves became very good friends.
So, to recap: friends of mine gave us a Jumper from friends of theirs who become friends with my wife's friends who, in turn, become our friends. And we all come from different cities/areas.
The world got a lot smaller because of that. I'm curious to see what strange coincidence happens when we pass the Jumper along.
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Boddington Marathon July 2012
United Kingdom
BRISTOL
but I'd rather live in the south of France
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When I was at school in Taunton in South West England, I wrote a history project about the Blue Riband - the competition for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger ship. I used many books from the school library for reference.
After I left school, I wanted to learn more about the subject and I particularly wanted to find a copy of one book I had used. It was out of print and this was before the days of the internet, so the only way to find a copy was to look in secondhand bookstores.
Over a period of about ten years, every time I visited a secondhand bookstore, I would look in the transport section for a copy of the book. One day, I was browsing in a store in Rochester in South East England. I saw a copy of the book and took it from the shelf.
Imagine my surpise to find that it was an ex libris copy which had an old library sticker inside the cover. The sticker showed that it had belonged to my old school - it was the very same book I had used years before!
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Adam Thompson
United States
Peru
Indiana
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I was standing in my college dorm room with some friends and we were about to head down to the cafeteria for dinner. We were just standing and chatting, and the doorway was in my peripheral vision. I could have sworn a little black dog ran into the room and under the table. I said "Hey, did anybody just see that little black dog?" as I looked under the coffee table. There was nothing there of course...this is a limited access type building, pets are not allowed. Everybody laughed and made fun of me for a few weeks.
About a month later we were standing there again, same situation...and a little black dog ran into the room and under the table....seriously. My roommate just stared at me and we were both thinking the same thing and just started to laugh. That little dog was running as fast as he could and veered right into our dorm room. 30 seconds later a mom walked in and said "Sorry!" put her dog back on the leash and left. One of the craziest things I've ever experienced. Too bad I can't have a premonition like that about something important.
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Fountain Valley
California
Mission
British Columbia
1st Place (50
Wrocław
Dolny Śląsk
2nd Place (30
3rd Place (20
North Pole
Random Thumber 1 (50
Los Angeles
California
Random Thumber 2 (50
Oud-Beijerland
Zuid-Holland
Random Thumber 3 (50
Hvidovre
Denmark
Random Thumber 4 (50
Ottawa
Ontario
Every single winner is displaying a different country flag. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!!
Ottawa
Ontario
Oud-Beijerland
Zuid-Holland
Allanton
Berwickshire
I didn't win the national lottery today either.*
What a coincidence!
* to be fair I didn't actually enter that.