[starman]

This is one of those things where you could shrug and say "so?", or think it's pretty cool.

I was driving around yesterday and saw a car with a license plate that's the next in succession from mine. How often do you see that?

Mike

[E's Lil Theorem]

I was in line at the grocery store last night and the cash register lady was taking her sweet time, so I started chatting with the femme behind me. Turns out we have the same birthday. This isn't that unusual, but the fact that we were also born on the same year is.

Go us (her and I for having the same b-day, not me and starman for the "unique" experiences).

[turtle777]

Originally posted by starman:
Ever have a useless, but unique experience?

Everyday, in the MacNN Lounge.

-t

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by starman:
I was driving around yesterday and saw a car with a license plate that's the next in succession from mine. How often do you see that?

That is wild...I did see one the other day my "MacNN" initials and favorite number on a license plate...I was tempted to hi-jack it, but I resisted. I'm no longer as Clinically Insane as I used to be!



MOS 0024

[turtle777]

Originally posted by manofsteal:
I'm no longer as Clinically Insane as I used to be!

I doubt it will take you more than a couple of months to be there again

-t

[wdlove]

Your experiences are very interesting. I can think of any of mine at the moment.

[drive-thru]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Everyday, in the MacNN Lounge.

-t

Beat me to it.

A few months ago, a woman I know got married at the church across the street from my house. It turns out that the guy she married is the cousin of my sister's boyfriend.
It's weird how people you know, who all grew up hundreds of miles away from each other, are connected.

[iREZ]

I once went to Montreal to visit family and played golf with some old fart, he knew I wasn't from around there seeing how I spoke no french so he asked me where I was from and when I told him it turns out that he was one of my buddies uncle.

[DeathMan]

I used to know a guy in San Diego named Mark Hammil (not that Mark Hammil) who was friend of our family. Really cool guy. Then I moved to a smallish town in Utah, and like 5 years later started dating this girl that who I eventually found out was his niece. I thought that was a little bizarre, but cool.

[Beewee]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Everyday, in the MacNN Lounge.

-t

Dare I say, "Life itself" is a useless but unique experience.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Beewee:
Dare I say, "Life itself" is a useless but unique experience.

What if my life is not unique ?

-t

[Truepop]

Mine starts with a V and I saw someone with the same numbers/letters as mine but started with an M not as special but still.

[Josh Reid]

I was on my way to what I thought was a 7pm performance. I was running a bit late, it was almost 7pm, and I had wanted to be 10-15 minutes early. I walked by a car two blocks from the venue whose license plate was "WAY2LATE"....I thought "Well I'm not gonna be as early as I wanted but I won't be 'Way too late'..." I checked the confirmation e-mail I had in my bag, and it turns out it was a 6pm show that was tolast approx one hour. So, I was in fact 'Way2Late'.

-Josh

[Dr. Wahnsinn]

Many years ago while checking in to a motel in Calgary, Alberta, the desk clerk and I discovered that his parents had resided just a mile from where I live. He knew all the street names and landmarks. With the distance involved and the number of motels that I could have checked into, the coincidence was rather interesting.

[Xeo]

My mom's license plate and my plate differed by only one number. Same first 3 letters, and her numbers were 720 and mine were 760. I actually can't remember the letters now. It's been a few years since I've had that plate.

Originally posted by Josh Reid:
I was on my way to what I thought was a 7pm performance. I was running a bit late, it was almost 7pm, and I had wanted to be 10-15 minutes early. I walked by a car two blocks from the venue whose license plate was "WAY2LATE"....I thought "Well I'm not gonna be as early as I wanted but I won't be 'Way too late'..." I checked the confirmation e-mail I had in my bag, and it turns out it was a 6pm show that was tolast approx one hour. So, I was in fact 'Way2Late'.

-Josh

That's a cool story. Made me laugh. I have a feeling that the author of that particular vanity plate thought of such situations when he got it. And I'm sure many, many people have been stuck in traffic behind him thinking about how that plate is "so true." Still, good story.

(sorry you missed your show)

[demograph68]

My best friend is my girlfriend's twin sister.

[Spheric Harlot]

There's been several instances where it turned out that people I'd met had actually lived right around the corner from me years ago and knew the same people I did.

The weirdest one was in the office of a venue in Hamburg we were going to be playing, where it turned out that the P.R. agent had been a student at my old school in Hong Kong at the same time I was - some twenty years earlier! (she arrived in 1980. we left in 1981.)

-s*

[Yose]

I was sailing in a PHRF race this summer and right through the course cruised the boat that was built right after the one I sailed on, they were 214 and we are 213. Suprising because it's not a popular class on Lake Ontario.

[philm]

In the summer of 1987 I visited the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. We were standing at the Eternal Flame there when....it went out. Not sure what that means.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by philm:
In the summer of 1987 I visited the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. We were standing at the Eternal Flame there when....it went out. Not sure what that means.

You're DOOMED.
And Canadia(sic) as well !

-t