Ridiculous coincidences

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WrongSprite

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Hi Escapist, can you think of anything really ridiculously unlikely that's ever happened to you?

For my own example, I was on holiday, and visiting the Vatican, when I randomly met somebody from my home town in England, which has a population of about 9,000. What are the chances...
 

ReservoirAngel

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When on holiday 8 years ago I become 'holiday friends' with some girl who was staying at the same hotel my family was.

Last year, on a totally seperate holiday I met the exact same girl again.
 

XIxDAxREAPERxIX

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Can I just start with saying that when I looked at ResoirvoirAngel's number of posts it read "1337" and I thought "What a perfect thread for this to happen!

And I actually have more than one example of jaw-droppingly coincidental events =)

-I met a girl on a cruise ship that I ended up really liking and was heart-broken to have to leave her. I then met her again on another cruise ship 2 years later! =D
-On said cruise ship in which I re-met this girl my family also became friendly with another family who actually ended up living in my hometown! (Pop. apx. 2000)
-The first two examples are extremely similar to mine! =)

COINKY-DINK MUCH!!!!!!
 

DanielBrown

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Well, when I was around 10-12 I played Tibia with some random guy. We became friends and it eventually turned out we lived in the same town, just a few minutes from each other. I reckon the chanses are low.

Only met him once though. He was a bit of an oddball.
 

spartandude

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I live in england and we went on holidy to america, so we got taxi from the ariport to the hotel and the taxi driver was not only british, but used to live in the same town as me, in my neighbour's house before we moved in
 

Aetera

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I went to a fairly far away summer camp, then years later when I was in high school the same camp councilor that I had turned out to be my new English teacher. Also, one of my best friends from college ended up getting an internship with my dad without either of them realizing the connection.
 

Anarchemitis

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Not off the top of my head about me, but I can recall a freak coincidence.

This is a famous photograph of the Apollo 12 launch, the Moon mission that took place a few months after Apollo 11. Within the first 40 seconds of the launch, the Saturn V was hit twice by lightning, which entirely crashed all electrical systems on board and rendered the Command Module with all three astronauts on board blind and mute to all external systems and inputs, as well as inadvertently activating all caution/warning systems and indication lights all at once. This also killed all information feeds direct to Houston. For all intents and purposes, according to the computers at Mission Control, the Apollo 12 had been destroyed (apart from garbled declarations of fear from the Astronauts). The Flight Director was forced to strongly consider a Launch abort, which would jettison the Astronaut's command module and terminate the Saturn V (cut the engines, let it fall away for a bit, and the blow it up), assuming the Command Module Jettison motor had not already been damaged by the lightning.
EECOM Electronics Flight Engineer John Aaron entirely by coincidence had actually seen the systemic failure before in a freak glitch during a launch simulation about one year before, and knew the solution to the power loss, and made the famous call to the Flight Director "Try SCE to Aux" which would switch Signal Condition Electronics to an Auxiliary power main. Aaron and Alan Bean, one of the Astronauts aboard, were the only ones in all of NASA who knew about this solution, so the Flight Director was surprised and initially incredulous at the call, but stated it anyways. Alan Bean found the obscure switch, and the Electronics regained clarity, saving the mission. Alan Bean burst into nervous laughter, reportedly, and laughed all the way into orbit.
 

similar.squirrel

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Hm. The word 'wider' means 'against' in German. 'Wieder' means 'again'. Any linguists here to explain that, or is truly just a weird coincidence?