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A year ago I was talking with a medical student at a hospital in Maryland and I has just met her for the first time. She told me that her husband was a physics student at a Baltimore school, but he was working that day at NIST. I said that my husband works there too, just then my husband called to discuss something else, and I told him about this student who's husband was doing some work at NIST that day. My husband said that he was actually in the same office.
We never met these people before, and only that time for about 20 minutes, but the spouses were in the same places at the same time. We all got a kick out of it. |
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I met a woman on the Internet chat room that I became real life friends with when I moved to the area. One night when we were chatting she told me she was expecting a friend of hers, that she met at school in California, to come and visit that week. The friend had a name that's not unusual but not very common and I said I went to HS with a boy who shared the same first name. I then stated his first and last name and she it was the same first and last name. Turns out the man she met in California was the same man I went to school with in NY. To top it all off he now lives in another state and works in the same place as my sister. He and my sister never knew each other in NY because he was much older.
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| Made friends with a woman at work who started the same week that I did. When our significant others met, we knew that they had gone to the same University, but then they got to talking about their college days and found out they had lived in the same rental house a few years apart. And this was at a BIG state school. |
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| I interned in NYC one summer during grad school, but stayed in a rental in Brooklyn. When I told my father the address of the place I was going to rent, he told me he had lived at that exact address for a year when he was in his early 20s. I knew he had gone to college in NYC and driven a cab there, but that was really a shock. He got a kick out of dropping me off that summer, as he hadn't been in that building in at least 30 years. |
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| One of my best friends in DC was in the same sorority as my cousin, with whom I am very close (we talk on the phone weekly). We had been friends for several years before we discovered that she used to sleep four beds down from my cousin, and get hammered together every weekend. We made the discovery while she was looking at my family vacation pictures. "Wait... go back one... is that JESSICA???" They have since reconnected through me and are friends again after a 10-year "I wonder whatever happened to..." period. |
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When my now husband and I met we found a number of coincidences. I can't remember all of them now, but some of them were:
1) We were both wearing the same silver Irish ring. I bought mine at a street market in Dublin. Can't remember where he got his. 2) His last name is the same as my step-mothers family. 3) Our mothers have the same maiden name. 4) We both have uncles named Scott (Maiden Name) |
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| A VIP from my office hit on my sister in another state at the Super Bowl!! |
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| Sorry to go in a slightly different direction, but my coincidence happened after my mother passed away: the first time I went to the cemetery after the burial there had been a big snow and I didn't quite know where to go/look for her marker. I was wondering around where I thought was the space - in deep snow - and looked down to see one marker partially exposed (melted snow?). It was my mother's. |
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| My great-grandfather has immigrated from Europe and rented a room from my husband's family. |
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| I was waiting tables in CA and once of my customers, an extremely drunk young man, turned out to be my second cousin.We are both from small towns in NE. Our grandmothers had a falling out in the 60's and had not spoken in 30 years so I didn't know him before that night. |
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That is cool! |
Anonymous
Whoa. Did the two families stay close through the generations, leading to you meeting your husband through family friendships? Or did everyone go their separate ways in the 1920s, only to have you two meet up completely by accident? |
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When I was 19 and visiting my best friend at college, we went to a frat party. She got in a fight with some girl outside, I came out to try and calm things down and some guy came up to me and asked me 'where the parties were?'. I said I didn't know because I didn't go there and he slapped handcuffs on my wrist. I had a beer in my hand about 6 inches off the house property and onto state property.
Finally told my parents after the fact. Read them the arrest report. It was my mothers cousin who arrested me (and was a TOTAL DBAG). |
Anonymous
| Was talking with a co-worker about how I had to miss a weekend work event for a wedding in North Carolina. She said she was also going to a wedding in North Carolina (neither of us is from there or went to school there or went to college with bride or groom). Turns out it was the same wedding - I knew the groom's family (his mother and my mother had grown up together in a totally different state) and she had met the bride at a semester-abroad program. Would have been way more random if I had run into my co-worker at the wedding without knowing before-hand! |
Anonymous
This is cool! Not exactly the same and not my story but one of the partners at my law firm (in his 60s) grew up in Manhattan but has lived in DC for most of his adult life. Found out that one of the partners from the firm's NY office now lives in the exact same apartment where he grew up - not just same building, but same exact apartment. I'm sure New Yorkers have lots of these storeis but I thought that was pretty amazing. |