What are the odds?

[Looch City]

Just think, would this have happened if one small thing had changed during that time?

What if that email came through 1min late?
What if you away from the email and completely missed it?
What if you had chicken instead of ham for lunch?
What if Jesus was Mohammed and Mohammed was Jesus?

It's crazy dudeee

[Cube Inmate]

Someone in my office just yelled out "Doritos" at the exact moment I was reading a text message from my wife about making Doritos-taco salad for dinner. Definitely the first time that word has been used in our text messages.

You did break the Matrix, Pylon.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by huntingwhale

this is literally proof that god exists.

Repent.

[eye twitch]

[JiriHrdina]

My recent example of breaking the matrix.
Was driving last weekend, and the song "Smooth" by Santana came on. Just as I reached over to turn it up...I noticed I was passing a street (in Sandstone) named "Santana".
Yeah I know. Not that cool. But kinda cool when this stuff happens.

[Ozy_Flame]

When I was traveling through Australia a few years back, I had to cross into customs at the Sydney international airport. It was busy, and there were quite a few officers working the customs booth. I was coming from New Zealand and it just so happens that a couple of days before I was on the set of the Shire (close to Matamata) and when the tour guide wasn't looking, I broke off a piece of the party tree to take home as a keepsake - the one that Bilbo made his speech under in the Fellowship of the Ring. So as I was transporting it across, I kept it with me on my carry on luggage, being young and dumb at the time. The customs officer stopped me and asked if I was carrying any foreign floral or fauna, and not wanting to pay a huge fine, I admitted to having a tree branch with me. He looked at me sternly, and said the only way I was going to get into Australia, and then through Japan with this branch was if if I was a magician, him ready to confiscate it. I responded by saying well as a matter of fact I'm not a magician, but it was pretty much from over the head of a magician, and I explained the story. He laughed, said I had some cajones to do that and that "qualified me" as a magician, and actually let me keep the branch (after a bit of pleading with a sob story about how it meant so much to me).

Surprisingly, he then he checked my passport again, thought for a few seconds, and asked if I was from Calgary. I said I was. He then proceeded to ask if I knew a few family members he had from rural Alberta, where he spent a few summers in his youth. I said the names weren't familiar, and asked why he thought I would know them. He proceeded to tell me he loosely knew my dad back in the day and that they had friends in the same social circles.

After that, my entry into Aus was good to go.

[Sr. Mints]

One day I was shopping at Costco, and then I went to Ikea and the lady who was in front of me in line at Costco was also shopping at Ikea.

/thread

[troutman]

Serendipity.

Monday night I played by a song on air by an artist that was unknown to me (Casey Mecija), and I did not how to pronounce her name. Tuesday morning I heard her being interviewed on CBC3. Seemed like a huge coincidence, but I suppose it is not that serendipitous if she is promoting a new record.

[Robo]

I had a weird thing happen to me i had to get a special key cut at work the number on the key was 9889 later that morning i did some banking my refrence number was 9889. Sadly i didnt win the lottery that day though

[Displaced Flames fan]

I was in Omaha last week on business and was staying at a hotel (actually in Carter Lake, IA). I left for dinner and when I got back the car parked next to me had Flathead County (MT) tags. Not nearly as crazy as some of the other stuff in here, but I thought that it was pretty coincidental that someone from my home county (less than 100,000 people) ended up parking right next to me in Carter Lake, IA on a Wednesday night.

[Fuzz]

Last year we were on our way to Spain and had a 2 hour layover in Amsterdam. Went for breakfast and found my co-worker standing in line. She was on her way to France.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Alright I'll get in on this.
Last summer the GF and I went to the science centre for adult night.
As we rode our bikes up I noticed that another of my exact model/colour of bike was locked to the bike rack. Not much of a coincidence there, I'm sure they made a few of them.
As we pulled up, it turns out that locked up with that one, was another bike, the exact model/colour as my GF. Both pretty dissimilar bikes, so it's not like they were both bought as pairs.

Anyway, I was really hoping we'd run into our bike doppelgangers that night, but no dice.

[puckhog]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Alright I'll get in on this.
Last summer the GF and I went to the science centre for adult night.
As we rode our bikes up I noticed that another of my exact model/colour of bike was locked to the bike rack. Not much of a coincidence there, I'm sure they made a few of them.
As we pulled up, it turns out that locked up with that one, was another bike, the exact model/colour as my GF. Both pretty dissimilar bikes, so it's not like they were both bought as pairs.

Anyway, I was really hoping we'd run into our bike doppelgangers that night, but no dice.

It's pretty obvious that your bike doppelgangers were in fact future versions of you and your girlfriend, sent back to prevent a terrible tragedy (and succeeded in doing so!). Those versions of you would have had to avoid you to avoid the whole "paradox" thing.

Whenever in the future you and your girlfriend go back in time, I expect an update of this post.

[icarus]

Four times in my life before I turned 30 I randomly bumped into people I knew from home while travelling overseas:

- A guy from Yellowknife while on a cruise ship in the Aegean Sea
- A girl with whom I went to Queen's U while at the Munch Museum in Oslo
- A baseball coach from U of C while at a bus stop at 3am in Trafalgar Square, London
- A guy from Rocky Mountain House at 8am on a Wednesday morning on a street in Alice Springs, Australia

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by puckhog

It's pretty obvious that your bike doppelgangers were in fact future versions of you and your girlfriend, sent back to prevent a terrible tragedy (and succeeded in doing so!). Those versions of you would have had to avoid you to avoid the whole "paradox" thing.

Whenever in the future you and your girlfriend go back in time, I expect an update of this post.

That's weird because I just assumed his story was going to lead to some sort of partner swap...

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by puckhog

It's pretty obvious that your bike doppelgangers were in fact future versions of you and your girlfriend, sent back to prevent a terrible tragedy (and succeeded in doing so!). Those versions of you would have had to avoid you to avoid the whole "paradox" thing.

Whenever in the future you and your girlfriend go back in time, I expect an update of this post.

You sir, are a genius!

[Hack&Lube]

Prince passed away on the same day as Queen Elizabeth's Birthday.

Many of Canada's national monuments happened to have been changed to be purple lit for her birthday.

[Vulcan]

When I drove a taxi for a while, during bar rush one Fri. night I picked up this guy at a small bar in the SW. I was hoping for a trip back DT but he only went about two miles farther south. As I let him out he said can you go back and pick up my room mate Dave. I humoured him by saying sure, thinking I want to get out of here but I needed to drive past the same bar to get DT. Anyways as I'm driving by this drunk jumps out waving at me, so I pick him up. He gives the same address that I just dropped off, so I look over at him and say, "So Dave how's it going". He gave me the strangest look as we didn't know each other from Adam.

[pylon]

So we take a 2008 Dakota quad cab 4x4 truck on trade, and it fits what I need for a decent hobby truck, trailer tower, and winter beater. It needs a bit of work and an out of province inspection so I'm able to buy it on the cheap. So I get all the work done, and it passes. But there is this annoying noise. A rattle/ding noise. It sounds like a tiny hotel desk bell interspersed with a metallic rattle. It's coming from the back seat. It's driving me absolutely nuts and I'm almost at the point I'm gonna sell the truck it's so irritating. So enough was enough, I isolate the rattle or its Kijiji time. So tonight, by punching the back seat I kinda isolate the area. Take apart the back seat using an 8mm 1/4 inch socket and ratchet (this is the key moment). As I'm taking it apart I think "Man I wish I had my 3" wobbly extension to reach these bolts better". After I take everything apart and get closer to the noise by repeatedly punching the floor under the back seat, I find stuck in the middle of one of the metal seat hinges, a 1/4 inch drive, 3" wobbly extension that must've fell out of the guys toolbox, that was creating the noise.

I shouldn't have taken the red pill.

[T@T]

One thing I have learned over the years is to expect the unexpected.

I did a buddy a favor once to be a wingman in a double blind date he found on one of those phone dating services only to find my date was a former girlfriend I had when I was 16 and living in Nova Scotia.

The blind date lasted 3.5 years.

[Fuzz]

Pylon, why do yo keep buying Chrysler's??!! You dig the punishment?