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My assistant at work has gone on maternity leave. I now have all her emails on my computer, some 15,000 in her in box. Spending a little time to reduce this I started with the oldest. It was from me to her on September 21st 2015, reminding her I was leaving early as I had a Doc's appointment.I don't have appointments often but I had another one two days ago. Exactly a year later and at the same time. It made me think was there any meaning to this beyond it being a huge coincidence.


Years ago I was leaving a store in Miami Beach and held open the door for a couple coming in. The man was someone who used to be my best friend when we were kids, who I hadn't seen in years. We came from a small town in the middle of Ireland. I was living here at the time and he had lived in various places around the globe.


I found this article on the subject which to be honest is heavy reading. I'll add the link. The reference to a hamster on a wheel is to suggest that maybe life is going around in circles and we end up at the same place we started. Anyway, what's your coincidence you can't forget? Theories welcome.


http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-true-meaning-of-coincidences/463164/

Visiting a tea factory in a small town in southern India. I'm just coming to the end of my tour when a couple come in to start theirs. I don't pay much attention until I hear 'hey, Nicola' and it's a guy who sits just behind me at work.

My brother Lads Holiday - Magaluf or somewhere back in the 80s, met a bunch of lads from Somewhere up north in their hotel too got on well had a laugh with them, hung out etc said goodbye at the end of holiday but didn't keep in touch


Next year - Faliraki or somewhere different but another lads holiday, went into their hotel... same group of lads from up north checking into the hotel at the same time

When I was 33, I lived at number 33 and worked at number 33.


My work phone extension was 3336. Then they changed all the phone numbers, and mine became 3339 .......


And not sure if this is coincidence exactly, or just odd. Sometimes you meet somebody for the first time, then for the next few days (or weeks) you seem to bump into them all the time, then after that you never see them again ..... I don't mean romantic relationships (!!) I mean casual acquaintances.

For many years I went to see, or at least phoned, my mother on her birthday, October 28th. It was only after she passed away that my Dad told me that her birthday was actually on the 23rd and that I'd been getting it wrong for the last 20 years or so, but she found it hilarious and made him promise not to say anything to me!


Sadly she died a few weeks before the arrival of my daughter, her longed-for first grandchild.


When she did eventually arrive, my daughter was born 10 days after she was due. On October the 28th.

JohnL Wrote:

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> It's that old mathematical issue of in a classroom

> how many people have the same birthday.


..on average you need just 27 people in a room to find someone with the same Birthday as you. love that one.

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