r/coincidence

So for background, I've always wanted to be a mom and for as far as I can remember, Olivia was the name I'd pick if I had a daughter; after my first cat from when I was really little. I'm 36 and single but have considered IVF or IUI or something like that. Recently I've given up on it because I lack the finances to not only get pregnant this way but to then also raise a child...in this economy? But I still think about my Olivia a lot and how I'd raise her.

Lately I've been getting a lot of calls from United Physicians that I usually ignore but today I decided to answer out of curiosity. They asked if I was the parent of Olivia! I said I don't have any kids and it ended up being the wrong number but thought it was crazy that of all the girl names...it was an Olivia.

So I’m scrolling through the radio stations on my presets in the car and I go to one called she 100.3 and hear the end of the song but couldn’t figure out what it was and then I’m thinking wait is it behind these hazel eyes but then quickly brush that off and change it to one called lite fm and the guy stops talking and puts on a song. Guess what song it was, IT WAS BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES! WHAT ARE THE FREAKIN ODDS OF THAT I SWEAR TO GOD THAT WAS CRAZY?!

Driving to pick up a new tv on a four lane highway in Delaware and I come up behind a Subaru in the right lane with a distinctive, strangely worded “baby on board” type bumper sticker. Meanwhile a pickup truck with an equally distinctive deer decal in the rear window passes me in the left lane. No problem, I get off at my exit with both cars still in sight in front of me, and then spend about 45 minutes getting the tv loaded I had bought on line in my car and head back home.

I enter the same highway in the other direction, and realize I’ve just pulled in behind the exact same Subaru, and within ten seconds of realizing it was the same Subaru I was following earlier, you guessed it, the exact same pickup truck with the deer window decal passes on left just like the first time.

That was nearly a year ago and I still haven’t let this coincidence go.

For context this person was a hoarder but not an extreme one she didn’t hoard everything like trash or broken items just a lot of random stuff. Such as she kept her mail from the past 10 years as well as 50+ movies on disk but she didn’t have a disk player, 100s of books, and all her sisters items which were plentiful. All of this stuff was in a pretty small 1 bed 1 bath apartment. Why my boss was annoyed was because her smoke detectors needed the batteries to be changed he learns this via a calendar reminder he made weeks beforehand and when he sees this he says “crap we gotta change her smoke detectors batteries” and follows up in a joking tone “this might be her last battery change”. The next day she was found dead via welfare check from being essentially old. My boss since has regretted this remark dearly and swears he didn’t kill her. I still don’t whether to laugh at this or not.

Hi everyone, I’ve been dealing with this thing where I keep seeing people and things that resemble someone I used to know, not to mention I keep seeing our initials everywhere on license plates, usernames of randoms on social media, even my shower!! TWICE and it’s driving me, because I don’t really go out of my way to think about them, then today my Bluetooth on my car stopped working out of the blue and the first song that pops up is person’s name “girl” and we’ve talked about that song before and I loved it for them😭 at first I thought it was a mere week coincidence, but this has been going on since we departed and it’s bugging me… so any reason why this may be happening? I’m thinking that our energies are still intertwined or maybe they’re thinking abt me or manifesting me?

So my mate Craig (the driver)and I (passenger) were heading home from town turning onto a side road, when he saw something in the middle of the road.

"What's that" he asked, "someone's lost a wallet" I replied.

With screeching tyres and a cloud of dust Craig stopped the vehicle and jumped out (dodging oncoming traffic!) to retrieve the item.

Looking at the cards inside we saw that it belonged to a disabled pensioner about 30 kilometres away.

Craig rang the police while I googled his name without finding a phone number to match his address, the lady police person tried ringing his number but there was no answer.

She suggested taking the wallet to the nearest police station to let them sort it out. Now, the nearest manned station was about 2 kilometres further away the guy so Craig had his wife drop it off to the pensioner on her way to work.

Needless to say he was overjoyed to get it back with cash and cards unmolested! He had left it on the roof of his car when visiting his Aunt another 20 kilometres further from home. It's a miracle the wallet made it that far.

So 2 days later I was heading to town to buy a special tipping kettle I saw on Marketplace for my 97 year old Auntie, stopping at Craig's house for a cup of tea on the way. He was browsing Marketplace while we drank and found another barely used tipping kettle for $30 - retail price new $214. He asked me to pick it up for him. He messaged for the pickup address.

IT. WAS. THE.SAME.GUY. Who dropped his wallet!

The same guy. In a town of 255,000 people. His mum wanted to get a larger kettle for when they had visitors (not strictly relevant but whatever).

I've heard people say "there is no such thing as coincidence" and if one of those people want to chime in and tell me what to call this situation I'm listening!

It is amazing how a few unexpected detours can weave together a life.

What started out as a forensic science course at Cardiff "Poly" led to a loft bedroom in a shared house in town, which felt a bit odd at the time, but set everything else into motion.

Returning home early one night from a political party trip to Bristol, I walked into the house to find my housemate's older daughter hanging out with a friend from Cardiff. We hit it off immediately over a shared love for Monty Python. She used to write to Graham Chapman (and actually got replies), and since I had the scriptbooks, we spent the next few hours endlessly quoting Python at each other.

She was studying at Brighton Uni, and though we saw each other a few times after that, we mostly kept the connection alive the old-fashioned way—through pen and paper letters. Meanwhile, my course in Cardiff underwent some changes, prompting me to leave and apply to four different universities. I ended up getting in at Aberdeen.

Before heading up north for the start of term, I spent the summer with her down in Brighton. We both managed to land jobs at a local bingo hall, where we worked alongside a woman named Maddy. The three of us hit it off immediately and had an absolute blast that summer. When autumn arrived, I moved into halls at Aberdeen, and a year later, my girlfriend moved up to join me.

About two years into living in Aberdeen, we were sitting on a bus heading into town when my girlfriend suddenly pointed out the window and shouted, "There’s Maddy!" I laughed it off—we were hundreds of miles away in Scotland. But a few months later, our bus pulled up to a stop in town, and sure enough, Maddy was standing right there. I stepped off, walked up to her, and said hello. We were both completely stunned. It turned out she had met a guy in Brighton who was originally from Aberdeen and had moved up north with him. A few months after that surprise encounter, they split up, and she moved back down to Brighton.

The final twist came a year later when we were down in Brighton taking the train into town. Out of nowhere, a man walked up to me and said hello. It was my Physics Professor from Aberdeen University; he recognised me—and remembered my wife ( from the 300 other students ) , who had occasionally tagged along to sit in on his lectures.

For context Denzel is a police detective investigating a serial killer who can (seemingly) leap bodies. Was watching it the other day and noticed how uncannily similar it is to that one scene in BND.