Sabrina Carpenter voice “Whaaat a coincidence!”
Does the world…actually revolve around me???"
All jokes aside, it’s the strangest feeling!
So many different things had to go exactly right for this to happen!
What are the odds!
Recently, Redditor u/No-Investigator-4030posed a questionon r/AskReddit about just that.
Burt had a twin brother named Bern.
Burts wife was named Betty.
Burt was from Idaho (location changed).
A lot of this was pretty obvious.
My wifes family is from Idaho.
My wifes name is Betty.
Later, for fun, I did a Google search.
There was a Burton Roberts from Boise, Idaho.
He had a brother, Bernard (Bern).
Burton was married to Betty.
Burton died two weeks after my son was born.
My son was born six weeks preterm.
Anonymous
2.
It meant totally new schools, new friends, new everything.
Well, I thought they were so hilarious that I gave them out toeveryone.
By, like, day two, I had given every single one away.
Well, flash forward about 15 years, and I’m living in LA.
I stop at a gas station in Barstow on a weekend trip to Vegas with friends.
There it was, my name and old phone number.
What are the damn odds?!"
EdithWhartonsFarts
3.
The person I called was on the same carriage as me."
MoFauxTofu
4.
That’s whenIrealizedhewasn’t my friend; he justreallylooked like him.
We both just happened to look like someone else in each other’s lives."
treearemadeofbark
5.
“My dad lives in a national park here in Australia.
It’s farmland that’s legacied in.
Their landing looked rough.
So we got in the car and drove for about 10 minutes to reach the spot.
We headed over to the guy who was standing by a very damaged glider.
The pilot stared at us incredulously, then stammered, ‘Fuck, Jack, is that you?’
“They both grew up in Greymouth, NZ.
Found each other randomly after a glider crash in NSW, Australia.”
aalios
6.
“Several years ago, I had a husky who was getting on in years.
I was very in tune with him.
Enough so that I knew what specifically many of his whines or queues meant.
He had a particularly unique one that signaled when he needed a bathroom break.
As he got older, he started needing to go outside in the middle of the night, too.
Old man problems, am I right?
He’d just meet me at the back door.”
I had sound-dampening headphones in with light music going to help drown out distractions.
I told her the dog was whining.
She said he hadn’t.
We looked to the dog, who made the tiniest ‘I need outside!’
whine, before getting up and going to the back door.
And then it happened more.
I’d be outside in my workshop and hear the dog whine.
Within two minutes, my partner would be bringing the pup out to do his business.
I currently have a two-year-old husky that I’ve started hearing at different volumes than my partner.
But I think that, just maybe, some dogs are.”
AnArdentAtavism
7.
“I randomly met a boy on the beach while visiting my grandmother once.
I was 10, he was 14.
I’m American, he’s English.
Years later, I was on a message board trying to find out ifDead Like Mewas coming back.
I began a conversation with a random guy on the message board.
We met up and got married within months.
20 years and 3 kids later…”
HmNotToday1308
8.
“I passed out after receiving a flu shot when I was 28.
The nurse who helped me up kept asking if I wanted my mom.
She had the appointment slot after mine to get vaccinated.
The nurses assumed we had come together, but neither of us knew about the other’s appointment.
We lived an hour away from each other, in different cities.”
Leelluu
9.
“I saw this girl (my age) at a Taco Bell.
I went over and said hi to her (briefly, but then left).
I thought she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen.
Coincidentally, I crossed paths with her at a bar that weekend, too.
I hung out with her, and we chatted.
Turns out, we’d both gotten hired by the same large factory.
She worked days, I was midnights.
The factory was made up of four large buildings, and we were in different ones.
Not too long after, I got switched to working afternoons (still in a different building).
Eventually, my schedule was changed to work days.
After that, I placed in her area of the factory.
Eventually, I placed right beside her.
We basically would spend eight hours every day facing each other, about ten feet apart.
We’ve been married for a couple of decades now.”
Apprehensive-Care20z
10.
“I met this girl who worked at the farmers market.
We would see each other on Saturdays and chit-chat on occasion.
Eventually, we exchanged Instagram accounts and found out we were both into home brewing and fermentation.
She posted that she had 40 lbs of apples and had run out of fermentation vessels.
I reached out, learned that we were close neighbors, and went to pick up the apples.
We decided to hang out in a few weeks and compare our home brews.
When we hung out, we really hit it off.
She had just moved to Boston a year ago after touring with a band through Europe.
“Anyway, we started seeing each other pretty often.
One day, we were lying in bed, talking about a future where we had a farm.
We were talking about our hypothetical pet pig, Francois.
I mentioned that, at one point, I had the chance to walk a piglet on a leash.
So I opened this picture that was calling me.
I remembered that day.
It was October of 2013.
I thought they were pretty cool, so I snapped a photo and enjoyed the music.
So, back to the present day.
Yeah, thats me.'
I lost my mind!
Ive had a lot of coincidences in life, but that one still gets me.”
eddie0715
11.
“Through a series of weird circumstances, I had never met my best friends older sisters best friend.
We finally met one night, and we were all sitting around the kitchen table talking.
She and I are both major cat people and we were talking about our past and current cats.
He was 13, and I was devastated.
As soon as I got out of the car and yelled his name, my cat came running.
The friend lived about three miles from me.
The stars aligned so perfectly for me to get my baby boy back.
I still get goosebumps when I think about it.”
emilyjobot
12.
Finally, my foot hits keys!
I reach down and pick up…MY keys?
I didn’t know I’d even brought them, let alone lost them.
I never would have found them when I got all the way back home and started looking there.
I saved myself from a real future headache.
Then, I kept sifting and found her keys, too.”
shimmerer
14.
We decided to head over to the Student Union Building (the SUB).
On the way out the door, we grabbed his roommate’s pocket knife.
In the SUB, we played a little ping-pong, watched some TV, etc.
Within a space of about two linear feet, there were somehow two virtually identical switchblades with mangled tips.
But wait, there’s more!
Fast forward about 15-20 years.
I’m listening toThis American Life,andthe episode is about coincidences.
I ho-hum my way through the episode until I get to the final act.
I still can’t think about this without my brain melting."
sickmission
15.
Mid-thought, my toothbrush snapped clean in half.
I was left holding the handle in one hand and had the brush end sticking out of my mouth.
I stared at my reflection in the mirror for a good 15 seconds, completely baffled.
‘God, is that you?'"
ihearitbutturnitup
16.
Somehow, I’ve seen him in five different locations in different countries throughout the last 15 years.
Disney World when I was a kid.
Then, some beach bar in Thailand.
The Bean in Chicago.
A pub in Budapest.
And finally, a library in San Jose, Costa Rica.
We never talk outside of the random meetings.
My dad asked why, and I didn’t really have a reason.
I just said, ‘We’re gonna need this.’
I wasn’t exactly a coherent morning person, so he shrugged it off.
I said, ‘I got this!’
and put down the money I had taken earlier.
It was exact, to the penny."
Tartlet
18.
My grandpa had been ill with a cold, which was concerning as he only had one lung.
Like, I’m as dense as a brick most times.
Which is why this still has me spooked fourteen years later."
“When this happened, I was a 19-year-old woman who lived alone in a big city.
He was seemingly in a lot of pain.
He had his arms crossed over his chest, and he was saying, ‘Help me!
He was wearing just a ripped-up white t-shirt and looked disheveled.
Then, all of a sudden, I heard a loud banging!
As I was about to wake up, I saw my dad’s apparition fall to the floor.
Then, he was gone.”
“The banging continued.
It took a few minutes for me to realize that someone was banging repeatedly on my door.
So, I got up and ran over to look out the peephole.
It was my oldest sister and her husband.
Daddy fell down a mountain, and he is in the hospital.
We don’t know how bad it is.’
So, I quickly dressed and packed some things to take.
Well, guess what?
One window was open 1/4 of the way.
The one my dad came through.
I still remember it vividly to this day.
After a 45-minute drive, we finally got to see him.
He was thankfully OK but had broken all his ribs and was in an awful lot of pain.
My dad and I were very close, so later, I asked him about my dream.
He said that he was wearing the exact same T-shirt I described when it happened.
He said he was thinking of me and that he wished I had come out with him.
None of the other children could drive, as they were all 14 and under.
So, he said he was laying there thinking about why I hadn’t come with them.”
Dayana2
20.
“During a pretty feeble thunderstorm, I yelled to the sky, ‘You call this a thunderstorm?’
Two seconds later, the world went white, and a sound like an explosion erupted.
Our building was struck by lightning, and we were only one floor down from the roof.
I knew we had been hit because there were sparks cascading down from above.
I am an atheist, but I gotta admit, this made me scratch my head.”
DanoGuy
21.
So, I carefully avoided a vehicle coming my way.
ON THAT FARM THE DEVELOPERS INTENDED TO CREATE A QUARRY ON!"
“Then it hit me that our town actually might have meant a lot to him.
So, on a hunch, I checked if there were any other names from the movie about town.
I can’t decide if it’s all coincidence or inspiration.”
MYSTERees77
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