The Strange Coincidences Archive

go to www.hippledipple.com for alot of the cowincidences I have experienced in the last five or so years…...crazy man…crazy..heres one of the not so good ones in the last couple weeks…..I watched 60 mintues and they showed the shooter of the government official and the video of where the guy lit himself on fire to protest, that the shooter was watchin….an hour later I watched the movie,...“mansion”...and in the part where she was going to get an abortion there was the figure of the Quaker that lit themselves on fire back in history with the war protest on her stomach…the shooter was said to say that things mean nothing as like a cup is not a cup…in the mansion movie the girl on the stand says the same thing…..acouple days later, a man lights himself on fire in Egypt….

My wife and I were driving on the highway in our old beat-up car and we were discussing the car we should think about getting. I thought the new Nissan line was good. She asked what the latest year Nissan Maxima looked like, and just then, I found that we were driving right behind the new Nissan Maxima model, so I said: “Here it is,” we had a good look at it for a good ten seconds. Then I said: “The Altima is the slightly smaller model.” Then the Maxima changed lanes and moved off, and lo and behold, there was the Altima in the next lane. I thought it would be strange if we could see the Sentra next….and wouldn’t you know it, the Altima slowed down for some reason and then the Sentra came into view just in front of us!

The weird thing was they were all black, as if we had just been given an apples-to-apples comparison of the three models by some omniscient Nissan car salesman.

In high school once, I was sitting in a circle with 5 other friends just chatting when the person to my left said: “Hey, don’t you owe me $10?” Sure enough, I had forgotten about it and gave him the money. Then he turned to the person on his left, and said: “Here’s the $10 I owe you.” That person then passed the note to the guy on HIS left; apparently he owed that much, too. And it went around the circle, until it got to the guy on my right. He owed me $10, too! So when he paid me, I still had the $10, but all debts got settled.

About two years ago, I chose an audio book to listen to on my iPod the book “All Creatures Great and Small” by James Herriott, a veterinarian’s stories about setting up his practice in Yorkshire, England. The book came out in 1972, at the end of my high school days in Hong Kong. I had not thought about it all these years but remembered having been charmed by it when I had read it then.

I am now in the US. I had an unexpected business trip to go to Costa Rica, and who should be there but one of my sister’s high school classmates from Hong Kong, so I contacted her and asked if I could stay with her for a short holiday, and she said yes. (We had not seen each other all these years.) In the days before the trip, I made a point of listening to the audio book, because in fact I had had it for some months and I wanted to finish it, which I did finally on the flight down.

Once I got to my friend’s house (she had worked in the US and just recently retired and moved to Costa Rica with her husband), I noticed she had two dogs. She remarked that she had brought the dogs from the US, and it involved a complicated process. The vet in the States who had given the dogs a clean bill of health so that they could be brought to Costa Rica was James Herriott’s son!

I experienced a time/situation glitch last night.
I was in the gym sauna with a friend. Several times she left the sauna to cool off in the hallway. I noticed the last time she walked out her water bottle was not on the sauna seat. I looked through the glass door & noticed her holding the bottle. Since she was holding the bottle I thought she may be ready to start our workout. I looked away for a brief moment & up again to see her returning to the sauna. The bottle was not in her hand…I looked at the sauna seat & there was her bottle!

I was looking through a baby name book in a shop, I looked up my own name which is Andria. The explanation for my name said ‘A girl from the greek Island of Andros.’ I also looked up my mothers name which is Lilian, and the explanation for her name in this particular book was ‘a woman from the Greek Island of Andros!! Weird! I flicked through the book and found no other refrences to Andros, just our names! Also strangely, my mum said she was obsessed with Greece when she was younger and used to have recurring dreams that she lived there!

In 1964,and at age 10,me and a group of kids decide to get off the school bus early and buy fire crackers in town instead of going to school.
After letting them off in a back street, 2 decide to go to school ,another went home (sick) and me and another boy go bush for the day.As 3 pm aproaches we walk home so everything looks normal.i’m just about home when a cop picks me up in his car with my mate in the back seat.
The Cop speaks to my mum,then leaves to presumably take my friend home and speak to his mum too.Next day at school the lot of us got 4 of the best (owch).I later found out that some kids in our group were caught stealing the fire crackers ,hence the police involvment.
In 2009 I happened to be chatting to a fella who also attended my school but one year ahead.I happened to relate this story to him.
He said his father had an affair with the mother of my friend and he was also one of only 2 cops in that town at that time.

I was going through a phase of many changes in my life and experiencing a lot of emotional/financial turmoil. Where would I live? Only one question of many that were in need of answers to meet basic needs for my kids and myself. My boyfriend and I were in love, but not yet ready to live together.

Well, I was driving around a neighborhood I liked when a “for rent” sign caught my attention and I jotted the ph# down, fully aware I would not likely be able to afford such a decent house in this area. Lo and behold when I called the landlord it WAS in my range “IF” I could come up with damage deposit and prove my income. The renovations being done inside the house meant it would not be ready to move into right away… and the landlord was taking as many applications during that time as possible to ensure he would find the right tenant.

I didn’t like the sound of competition for this place… I prayed that God would help us to make this house our home if it was meant to be.

The landlords cell Ph# was exactly the same as my boyfriend’s cell ph# with one digit inverted… a 6 instead of a 9. My boyfriend had been getting many calls about a house for rent and kept telling these callers they had the wrong number. This trend of inquiries to my bf’s number continued and he stuck with the same answer… but now knowing full well this was ensuring a more limited pool of potential renters for the landlord to choose from.

In a nutshell… I ended up moving into this house with my children and we’ve been really happy here!!! Even better, my bf lives here now also and his children love this place too.

A friend of mine shared an expression I connect with:

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”

I was once in a theme park where theres thousands of ppl everyday! I happened to be waiting in line when I looked over I saw my older sisters ex bf & wife that i hadnt seen in a cpl of years. It was strange because the odds of running into them in a line in a big themepark had to be one in 50,000 especially in California

Once i dreamed that i won a lottery for $1000 and the number was 196931RU next day my friend forced me to lottery ticket and the number
i got was 196931RU and i won $100

SAYAN SEN
(INDIA)