My wife and I are vacationing on Maui, having lunch in a deli kind of place. In walks a lady who who may very well be my friend’s mom, Marina — who also lives back in California — and we’re staring and debating, trying to figure out if it’s her. We eventually agree it isn’t Marina, and we were right. So it was quite a…

This isn’t my story, but a friend of mine got into an accident when his car hydroplaned during wet weather. He was trying to explain to the cops what happened, when the exact same thing happened to another car. “That’s what happened.” He said.

Ok last one I promise. haha the comments reminded me of another one ... My kid’s names.

Oh reading the comments reminded me of another weird one ... A coworker and I frequently run into each other (outside of work). I live in a largish city of almost 2 million. Yet, we have seen each other at Costco, having dinner at various restaurants, at a couple different malls, at a grocery store, out walking our…

I have had some wild coincidences occur in my life. A whole lot of small ones, a few big ones. I think it’s just a little proof here and there that there’s more at work in this life than we know.

A bit different from the “random encounter” kind, but one kind of small coincidences I find particular fun (or creepy) is when you are watching a movie or more generally, enjoying a story, and something from the story happens in real life. A phone call may be the most common example. It leaves you in a state when…

I’m from Portland and know approximately no one that lives in NYC. I was there on vacation & ended up sitting next to one of my friends from high school on the subway. We ended up spending a week together & I got a pretty good tour guide.

One day, after living in my house about two years (and having little interaction with my neighbors, as they were all quite a bit older than I was), a neighbor comes over with a piece of my mail she’d found on the ground by her house. She confirmed that my last name was right. Then she told me that it had also been her …

The year before I went off to college (1978), I was a big fan of drawings and cartoons of Edward Gorey. The first year at college, my dorm neighbor invited me to go to her father’s place in New York City with her for Thanksgiving weekend. When I arrived, I was deligheted to find he hd an extensive collection of…

I grew up in metro Detroit. For a semester of my kindergarten year (1994), I lived in a small London suburb in England. While there I went to an international community school. Fast forward to 2012, I live in Chicago where I am attending college. In one of my classes, we’re discussing where we would like to work after…

I’m a civilian working in a military hospital. A number of years ago, when I was donating at the local blood bank, the person behind the check-in counter asked me if I’d ever used another SSN. I said no, and asked why she asked. She said that there was another person with my name who also worked at the hospital where…

Both of my Grandmothers have the same First name, birthday and anniversary. 

There used to be a guy in the office across from the hall from me whose wife worked at a different company and across the hall from her was a guy with the exact same name as me.  And I don’t have a very common name either. It was bizarre.

I was telling my coworkers about the weird housing situation I experienced when I had first moved to the city 3 years ago. Another coworker walks in and joins the conversation towards the end of my story, basically parroting back my whole story. I just sat there confused for a bit, thinking he had overheard the whole…

On a Saturday, about two decades ago, I told myself it was time to get a dog. I went out and bought a few little things like a food bowl, but something came up so I had to spend time fixing a computer instead of visiting shelters.

Back when Groundhog Day was on broadway, I played the lottery for it.

Got another one...

When I was younger, I was on a group trip to Colorado. We hiked up Mt. Elbert, and at the top I started talking to a guy who was there with a different group. At some point, he mentioned that he’d lived in Singapore for a while. I said, “Hey, I know someone from Singapore...”

It turned out we’d both dated the same…

I’m from a small town in Wyoming, but in my adult life I’ve found myself living and working in New York City. Now it isn’t weird to find someone from my neck o’ the woods in NYC, heck I have 2nd cousin who lives a few blocks from me and I had no idea. But late in 2019 my Wife, a few friends and I ended up at one of…

I shared this one in our Slack convo (as Meghan mentioned) but it’s pretty weird: 15 years back or so, my wife moved into a new apartment on the west side of Chicago and was complaining to her boss about her aggressively nosy new landlady. He said she sounded like this nightmare woman he used to rent from, and a few…