Weird Coincidences

[nailit]

Just finished reading this book about coincidences
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Coincidence-Martin-Plimmer/dp/1840465344

Ive had a few odd coincidences happen over the years but nothing spectacular.
Have you ever had a weird coincidence?

[Old_Geezer]

Aren't coincidences weird by definition ?

Probably had many but none I retain memories of.

[murraymints]

probably too many to mention..best was at a conference in london got talking to someone who it eventually it transpired lived in my childhood home and even slept in the same room..

[Ken4155]

The thing about coincidences is that, if you dig deep enough, they are there to be found. For my CSE English (a million years ago) i studied the assassination of JFK and was pointed in the direction of the coincidences with the Lincoln assassination. Whilst it is true that there were indeed a handful of similarities, for each one there were a dozen or so differences. Which, of course, are never mentioned.

[excelsior-1]

i've just read it too - what a coincidence!

[nailit]

//i've just read it too - what a coincidence!//
LOL

[novalis]

Really weird this. When I was in my teens - over 50 years ago - I lived near a golf course and would often look for lost balls. On consecutve days during one Summer holiday I found a ball in each of two different places - the same places each day - and they were each the same make and number, Dunlop 4 in the first place and Penfold 2 in the second. Now that is what I call coincidence.

[Ken4155]

novalis; that's nothing. I visit my bank at least twice a week and have done so for some time. And every time i stand on the rubber mat as i am leaving, the door opens. That's coincidence for you:-)

[magicmick]

One Christmas Day I was walking to my sons house to deliver presents etc, on the way I pass a telephone box and outside on the floor was a tie from a posh shop in town, still in the plastic wrapper but not in a gift wrap. 12 months later Christmas Day same telephone box outside another tie same shop in plastic wrapper not gift wrapped. Never did solve that one any ideas guys?

[BilSuth]

Magicmick,
not an explanation of the full circumstances, but maybe the coincidence part is explained as repetitive because of the gift time of year. At a guess, if the same time and day, maybe it was a secret gift to get picked up, even allowing for the risk that it might have been taken by a casual passer-by like yourself.
Not the way that you or I would do things, but I guess that's why it's a mystery.

[David H]

All the time nowadays. There are a number of levels, words being the clearest and commonest. The Baader-Meinhof effect, when you hear a new word and then again very soon afterwards. The frequency turns it from random chance to something else, the next type is when you're reading or saying a word or phrase and someone else says it on the radio or TV. Not an ordinary word obviously, but an unusual one. This happens to me so often now it's become normal, as it has with my parents who picked it up when it happened to me.

The highest level is where a chain of events takes place (like in the Celestine Prophecy, which confirmed my own previous experiences) where unless every one turns out one way the result can't happen. This has now happened to me so many times it appears a force is working outside our known reality and using these events to send a message it is indeed happening.

[magicmick]

If it was in telephone box wrapped up maybe, but unwrapped on the pavement I can only think someone has been given the tie and they have thrown it away. It is a busy street it seems strange I was the one to get it 2 Christmas on the trot.

[BilSuth]

An unwanted gift is probably right, Magicmick. The recipient dumped it, thinking that it was safe there and so as not to offend the donor. Like the kindly aunt who always buys you a Cadbury's Stocking for 20 years since you were five.
But don't count on free ties every year. One or other of them could have moved house or passed away...

[cazzz1975]

I was visiting relatives who lived 15 miles away, not far from there on the way home I popped into the local asda, sometimes they ask you your post code at the checkout, When asked the man that served me seemed surprised and on further questioning it transpired that he used to live at my house. that was seriously weird!

[venator]

Looks interesting = thanks

Just bought it - £2.74 on Amazon Prime.

[Mosaic]

My grandparents were married for 50 years and only spent time apart when grandad went into hospital with a stroke. He died in hospital, and his wife died at home - about 20 minutes apart. No phones. Just died.