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Post by grumpycakes on Oct 11, 2017 17:45:53 GMT -6
What weird thing happened to you that's interesting?
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stringy
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Post by stringy on Oct 11, 2017 17:46:46 GMT -6
oh, it has to be interesting huh?
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Post by grumpycakes on Oct 11, 2017 17:52:22 GMT -6
My dad and I called the same wrong number one time. It was a guy with an artificial voice box so he sounded like a robot on the phone. I called him first, trying to reach my friend. Then my dad called him weeks later and didn't even believe he had a wrong number until the guy finally convinced him. He thought his buddy was messing with him, using a special microphone or something.
When he told me the story, I was like, "OMG I called him by mistake, too!!!!" My dad didn't believe me, but when we compared the two phone numbers we were each originally trying to call, you got this guy's number by interposing digits in both of them.
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Post by grumpycakes on Oct 11, 2017 17:53:00 GMT -6
oh, it has to be interesting huh? Lol. Nah. Just spice it up with gifs.
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Post by grumpycakes on Oct 11, 2017 18:01:32 GMT -6
Many times, I have picked up the phone to call my BFF and it has rung in my hand because she's calling me. One time, back in land line days, it didn't even ring. She was just on the line instead of a dial tone.
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Post by grumpycakes on Oct 11, 2017 18:04:31 GMT -6
Apparently only weird shit happens to me on the phone.
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Post by tj on Oct 11, 2017 18:10:49 GMT -6
I have a fun story.
My mom and her high school bff (D) went to different colleges. They lost touch, but both got married and pregnant. They gave birth on the same day, in the same hospital, in neighboring rooms. Both to blonde haired little girls.
5 years later, my next door neighbor moves across the state, and ends up next door to D and her family!
Another 5 years later, our families run into each other across the border in Mexico.
Fast forward to college... D's daughter (my birthday twin) and I end up at the same college with the same major. Then, she marries my roommate's bff.
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Post by stringy on Oct 11, 2017 18:21:35 GMT -6
oh tj, the end of your story made me think of my freshman in college roommate and our list of coincidences: Her first and middle names are the same as my mom's We brought the same sheets and laundry basket Our parents were born in the same years The code to her parents garage was the same as my ATM code There was something else but I can't remember. We wrote a poem about it once that I should find. yea we were dorks.
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Post by charlotte on Oct 11, 2017 18:27:22 GMT -6
When I was in junior high, I talked on the landline with my girlfriends constantly. For a while, our neighbor’s phone line would randomly get crossed wrong or something because my friends and I would be able to hear my neighbor’s phone conversation. But she couldn’t hear us. It was weird... unfortunately none of her phone conversations were that interesting to listen to lol.
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Post by snowmoon on Oct 11, 2017 18:49:43 GMT -6
I keep thinking of things but then I realize that they're all pretty boring and mostly the result of being born and raised in the same small town that my grandparents were born and raised in.
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Post by sassyq on Oct 11, 2017 19:43:00 GMT -6
My husband and i traveled together on a summer drama team when we were teenagers. We knew each other prior to that but we were barely friends and certainly not a couple. That summer we met a girl with my first name and his last name. Everyone on our team told us it was fate and we were ment to be together. I objected a little too strongly and offended my future husband haha. I only objected so strongly because I had a crush on him already : )
I should add that while my first name is common, his last name is quite unusual
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Post by ovenrack on Oct 11, 2017 20:06:37 GMT -6
That's really cute, Sasq.
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 12, 2017 7:36:43 GMT -6
My husband and I are big geeks, and the first time I went to Dragon*con (while we were still dating), we went to a dinner being thrown by this cosplay forum he was part of. He kept telling me all day, "I can't wait for you to meet my friend P, he's so cool!" I go to the dinner and we have these nametags that have your screen names on them that every was wearing since some people had never met in person. At one point, I was sitting down and happened to see this girl's nametag, and recognized her screen name from an X Files fan yahoo group that I was part of back when I was like 16 (I was now about 23). I asked her about it, and it turned out she was in fact the same girl, and we were excited to reconnect. We had actually met in person once when I was in Boston looking at colleges and hung out for the day. Then we realized that my husband's buddy P who he had been telling me about was her boyfriend. Crazy that we'd known each other online for 7 years and our boyfriends were also internet friends and had no idea we were connected. The internet is a small, strange place... We still keep in touch (she married her boyfriend, too, and they have a one year old), and went to each other's weddings and see each other whenever we're in each other's city.
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 12, 2017 7:46:01 GMT -6
I think it's hilarious to run into people you know in unexpected places. When we went on our trip to Belgium a few years ago, while waiting in line at customs in the Brussels airport to get into the country, right behind us was a guy we knew who worked at our favorite brewery, who had come on a different plane, also from Philly, arriving at the same time. We had a good laugh about it and chatted in line and ended up taking the train into the city together.
My grandma once met a man who had the same last name while on a trip to South America and they figured out they were second cousins.
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Post by piccyami on Oct 12, 2017 7:47:13 GMT -6
One time in college, my sister texted me to let me know she was headed home (we had an apartment together), hut somehow the network crossed her text with someone else's phone number, so I texted back to the phone number "and why do I care?". This lady was so angry that I texted her that she threatened to call the phone company and have my account revoked because I was harassing her and costing her for all these texts she was getting (I sent one, then responded to a couple of hers before I realized that I didn't need to deal with this lady). She was the one texting me at this point and leaving voicemails.
She eventually stopped and nothing came of it (obviously), but it was a strange encounter.
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Post by sassyq on Oct 12, 2017 8:34:19 GMT -6
There is a boy who has randomly appeared in my life fairly consistently since we were really little kids. I first met him in like kindergarten at a vacation bible school. I didn't see him again for a few years until I was in a play with a homeschool group and he was in it too. Didnt seem him again until a few years later when we actually became friends when he was in a different homeschool group with my cousins that I visited a lot. A few more years of silence and then I went to a bible study with a friend and this kid was in that too. I went to college and got married and came home and promptly ran into him at the grocery store lol. It's been several years since I've seen him, so I'm waiting for him to randomly appear in my life again haha. Every single situation was completely unrelated to all the others, which is what made it so odd.
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Post by ovenrack on Oct 12, 2017 8:38:55 GMT -6
When I was giving birth to H and finally got an epidural after 24 hours of laboring, I was exhausted and antsy. The anesthesiologist walked in and he realized right away that he knew my husband - A has fixed some locks for him a few months prior.
It isn't really a coincidence because A does a lot of work for people in the town the hospital is in. When we go out to dinner, I call him "the mayor" because people always stop to say hello.
But man. At that point, I was like, PLEASE PUT SOMETHING IN MY BACK TO MAKE ME ABLE TO REST AND PLEASE STOP TALKING TO MY HUSBAND ABOUT YOUR BOAT IN YOUR GARAGE.
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Post by nikkipal on Oct 12, 2017 8:55:44 GMT -6
About a year ago I had my tonsils out. The anesthesiologist came in with a med student and J had me explain to them that I had stopped breathing/very low HR during my CS. He got a little bit teary.
A few weeks later I went to high risk OB for a pre-conception consult to get the green light to TTC again. I told the whole story to the OB and the med student that was with her. The med student said, I remember you-- I was with anesthesia when you had your surgery. Then he said he went home and told his wife how touched he was bc my husband obviously loved me very much. (I'm in a huge heath system, which makes it seem particularly coincidental to me).
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Post by Speedy on Oct 12, 2017 9:21:50 GMT -6
When I was like 16 we were having a family reunion and I went with my uncle to get some alcohol. We wound up talking to one of the staff members about the difference between whiskey and rye, and he goes "I know there's a song that talks about that, but I can't remember what". So we go about our business, fill up the cart, and head towards the checkout. The worker runs up and goes "I know! It's American Pie!" at which point every single person in the store broke out singing the chorus. It was surreal, and felt like I was in a musical lol
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Post by mintyblueair on Oct 12, 2017 10:00:36 GMT -6
Dramaphile, my family ran into a family we knew on the streets of Munich. The dad was the principal of my school and I had gone to school with one of their daughters since kindergarten. They did not want to talk though lol, they just looked surprised, said hi and hurried by. It was very odd.
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Post by mintyblueair on Oct 12, 2017 10:01:59 GMT -6
When I was like 16 we were having a family reunion and I went with my uncle to get some alcohol. We wound up talking to one of the staff members about the difference between whiskey and rye, and he goes "I know there's a song that talks about that, but I can't remember what". So we go about our business, fill up the cart, and head towards the checkout. The worker runs up and goes "I know! It's American Pie!" at which point every single person in the store broke out singing the chorus. It was surreal, and felt like I was in a musical lol That's amazing!
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Post by mapleme on Oct 12, 2017 19:39:30 GMT -6
My grandparents were once golfing in Florida and met another couple on the golf course with their same (not common) first and last names who lived one state over from them (in New England).
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Post by snowmoon on Oct 12, 2017 19:57:41 GMT -6
I have one! My paternal grandfather, my dad, my mom's brother and my so's brother all have the same birthday.
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 13, 2017 6:26:24 GMT -6
Ooh I have another, we were in San Diego visiting my family one year and went to go check out some of the breweries near my parents' house. We tried to go to Alesmith but they were closed for some kind of maintenance issue, so we went back the next day. Ended up chatting with another couple there and found out they also lived in the same neighborhood in the Philly suburbs as us and frequented our favorite local craft beer shop. Pretty crazy considering it's one of the smallest suburbs, with only 4,000 residents. After we got back home, we saw them pretty often around town and would always say "hi".
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Post by pbandj714 on Oct 13, 2017 6:26:55 GMT -6
snowmoon reminded me of mine! My middle name (also L's middle name) is the same as MIL's and both maternal and paternal GMIL's.
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Post by brandiewine11 on Oct 13, 2017 7:29:22 GMT -6
My grandmother on my Mom's side, dad, and niece all have the same birthday.
My first son has his dads name (obviously on purpose), and my second son shares his dads birthday.
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Post by mimsy on Oct 13, 2017 8:17:09 GMT -6
Somewhat morbid, but on my mom's side many people share a birthday with a death date of another family member (from previous years). A and one of his cousins share a bday.
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 13, 2017 8:26:48 GMT -6
My sister was born the day Norman Rockwell died. Not that strange probably, but it freaked her out when we visited the Norman Rockwell museum as teens.
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Post by ovenrack on Oct 13, 2017 11:41:06 GMT -6
Somewhat morbid, but on my mom's side many people share a birthday with a death date of another family member (from previous years). A and one of his cousins share a bday. My baby is due right around my mom's death date and I'm almost hoping for it... weird? Maybe...
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Post by pbandj714 on Oct 13, 2017 12:58:10 GMT -6
Somewhat morbid, but on my mom's side many people share a birthday with a death date of another family member (from previous years). A and one of his cousins share a bday. My baby is due right around my mom's death date and I'm almost hoping for it... weird? Maybe... I can understand this. My grandfather passed away in June 2014 and DH's grandmother passed away in June 2015. Having 2 babies in June 2016 felt comforting.
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