What's The Most Fantastic Coincidence You Have Witnessed?

[tobytronic]

I will try not to ramble:
A few year ago, I was stood at the roadside, finishing off an engine rebuild on a Rover V6 and we were chatting about cars. The car was jacked up with one wheel off the ground. Scott, his car, needed to open the passenger door to retrieve his house keys. I told him about how when the Austin Allegro first came out, the motoring press did the same thing: open a door with a wheel off the floor. When they did this, the front windscreen (windshield for US) popped out. The bodyshell lacked torsional rigidity (it was too flimsy) and the uneven forces ejected the glass screen which shattered.

A few minutes later, one of Scotts friend's drove up in a Fiat Punto. It was missing the front windscreen glass...

'You'll never guess what just happened. I accidently got stuck in a ditch. The AA came with the tow-truck and as they were recovering the car, I opened the door and this happened. The front window glass fell out and shattered.'

In 45 years as a mechanic, I've only heard the Allegro story just the once and I've never seen/heard of this happening to anyone else.

I do have some really spooky tales of coincidence. If anybody replies, I will tell a few...
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[Zacs-Master]

Well, there’s another one, Wolf ;-)

[piggynose]

While travelling along the east coast of Australia, I decided to stay a few days in Byron Bay. Made a few friends whilst there.
Anyway we hung about the area and got on pretty well. Said our good-byes.
Three years later I was travelling around Scotland, and after travelling back to Aberdeen airport from Lerwick, got the airport bus to the city. Just as I was getting off my stop for the SYHA, I heard a voice shout " don't I know you from somewhere?."
It was a woman I'd spent a few days with
3 yrs ago in Oz!!!!

[Peter Pedant]

when I was on a council - after about four years, some other councillor spoke out and said " I agree with PP" - the first time any one had done it - it was realllllllly weird.

Interviewing someone forty years ago, I pointed to his hand - cour fingers and scrunched phalanges ( are you following me so far?). I asked him how he had done it - " Fighting for the Germans."

he also said that he was in the Red Army. So had deserted once, possibly twice, from armies who werent very nice. 1945 He had walked from Trst to England. (*) and ended up in a little village in Dorset. aargh ! Still with me?

and funny thing was - Doctor had my name. yeah that was my father I said.

(*) in those days, some cities didnt have any vowels in their names. Trieste was one. The Serbian for Serbia appears to be SRB- that doesnt have a vowel in it either. even more weird

[Peter Pedant]

oh we have a nana-evil - hope she isnt reading this ! - that wd be a ....fatal coincidence
nana is grandmother to you soft southerners.

Prince Charles asked a welsh child - is that your nana? and was pilloried in the London press for asking a villager if he had a Nanny. That probably WASN'T a coincidence

[royfromaus]

It was pi44ing down with rain last week and my mate said
'I'm not going to work today'

I replied

''Neither am I''

Aunty weird that is!

[david small]

A woman reversed into my stationary car at Tesco car park and bent my rear steel bumper. A week later while parked on a high street, I watched a car reverse into the front of my car bending the front steel bumper. It was the same woman.

[tobytronic]

Wow, I wasn't expecting so many replies. Thanks a lot.

[1ozzy]

Me either, what a coincidence,,,

[tobytronic]

My mum was in paliative care, June 2001, Burton Royal. Myself & sister were fortunate to spend her last week together with her. She was in a single room and the hospital even put a Z-bed next to hers for us. We did alternating shifts. During that week - my mum was essentially comatose - so holding her hand, I do what I always do, read. My subjects were: the Swiss watch industry and fake high-end watches, simulation theory and the Red Army Faction (RAF) or Baader-Meinhof group (I had to spell-check the latter and I cannot believe there's a B-M effect) anyway, I thought if I come across any mention of the RAF in the next two days, I will surrender to the simulation theory...
Now, remember my mum was on her last legs, so I'm not going to use her in some BS tale. On my mum's last day, my sister and me were both there. I went out to get a coffee, when my phone rang. 'Ian, you need to get back, it's time'
On my way back, I passed the WH Smith hospital store. Exiting the shop was an elderly patient in red pyjamas. The T-shirt had the Red Army Faction emblem. Pyjamas.
Now although I test the theory quite a lot, I still do not think we live in a computer. However, the existence of a Baader-Meinhof effect, does makes me wonder.

My mum passed away about five minutes later. She did see the light and point up to it in the top right corner of the room. Same place I saw it when I had sepsis/seal-finger (really, I was rescuing a baby seal in Bannf) when I was close to kicking the bucket in a hospital room...
I digress.
My sister told her to go to it.
Btw, Peter it sounds as though there's a good story within your post, but you might want to rewrite it to make it more available. Or is that just me?

[tobytronic]

Wolf63 that's a nice story. My ginger stray was as usual hanging around. He simply will not be adopted. I tried again about thirty minutes ago. Sat him on my knee and told him that he's really smelly and needs to stop living like he does. He hated it, cried so much that I let him outside again. Four years since he first turned up with his friend in tow.

[jno]

Via del Corso was full of dangerous Italian drivers so I had to cross using an underpass. There I bumped into a guy I'd worked with in Sydney several years earlier. He gave me the address of a restaurant in Florence, where I was going to go after I replaced my stolen passport. Great restaurant too.

[piggynose]

I'm not sure if this counts as a coincidence. When I was working as a waiter many moons ago. One place I worked at I only worked about a few days a month, so I knew more or less what I was going to get paid at the end of the month. Anyway one month, I got paid 4 times wot I expected!! Anyway I said nothing, but as I shouldve expected I was asked to pay it back!!
So I asked the manager how did they make that mistake( in the 90s, so before computers) She said you got paid someone else's wages with the same name as you, my name isn't Mr Smith, but it is quite an unusual name!