“A car with the next license plate number parked next to me.”
Recently,u/Plus-Statistician80asked “what statistically improbable thing happened to you?”
Here are some of the best responses:
1.
“Car was broken into, everything stolen including handbag in boot with wedding ring and engagement ring.
“I started playing World of Warcraft when it launched and I was living in California at the time.
A year and a half later I moved across the country to a very small town in Tennessee.
The kind where the population doubles when college is in session.
“I won $30,000 from a slot machine and paid off all my student loans that week.”
“My son and I watched the eclipse in Wyoming on August 21, 2017.
He asked when the next would be.
I was 41, and he will be 41 at the one in the future.”
“Got attacked by a robin in the morning, then attacked by a hawk three hours later.
“A car with the next license plate number parked next to me.”
“Not me but my old neighbour, let’s call him Jimmy.
He and his wife decide to go on a once in a lifetime trip to Australia and New Zealand.
This was before mobile phones.
No other cars on the road and just endless countryside around him.”
“I was in the World Trade Center both times it got attacked…1993 and 2001.
So guess what tourist attraction I will not visit?
I am not giving them another shot at me.”
“My favourite Chinese restaurant is in Ohio.
Tasted pepper steak at restaurant and mentioned to the owner it tasted the same as the one in Ohio.
Owner was the brother of the owner of the Ohio restaurant.”
“I gave birth to my daughter on my birthday.
Roughly three years later, I gave birth to my son on his father’s birthday.”
“When I was on holiday as a kid in Ireland our car broke down going up a hill.
A farmer came out and towed us back to the cottage we were staying at.”
The photos were of my co-worker in Los Angeles.”
Without trying I paused the movie at the exact half, right down to the second.”
“I went to drop a friend for his job interview and got the job myself.”
“Not me, but a friend married a guy named Joe.
After they got married she moved into his house that he already owned.
Years later they divorce and she moves out.
“In Atlantic City several years ago, my husband hit $1000 on the slot poker machine.
This was within a couple minutes of him.”
“I worked at a funeral home and was cleaning out the basement.
The date on the back of the photo was the same day I found it, 60-some years later.
Pretty wild but not unbelievable.”
It wasnt even preauthorised, it was something totally random like $47.83 or something.
The bank thought it was an error so they removed one of the charges.”
H/T tou/Plus-Statistician80and AskReddit for having this discussion!
Note: All submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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