[Andrew Stephens]

It happens to us all from time to time. Those outlandishly wild, out of the blue coincidences that make you think "whoooa!"

For example this happened to me a while ago.

My wife is South African, we met when I lived in Cape Town. We now live back in the UK. My father does the accounts of a local Vetinary Surgeon, who is British. So far so not linked. Anyway over Christmas my wife and I were visiting home. Knowing this and that my wife was South African, my dad invited the locum vet at the surgery, who was also South African over for dinner since he was feeling somewhat lonesome.

The locum arrives and my dad goes to introduce him to my wife, but before he can he says "Hi Diane"

They were flat mates back in Cape Town several years before.

That's pretty weird. Anyone got anything similar. Better if it actually happened to you rather than something your heard somewhere.

[Chuckit]

It seems like everybody at my work knew somebody else there 10 years ago. Every time somebody gets hired, it's like, "Hey, you! I didn't know you were in that line of work now!" It actually took me a month to realize that I used to know one of the people who works there now, just because it had been long time and we weren't like BFFs or anything. Finally he mentioned his wife's name and I was like, "Wait a minute…I've played video games at your house before!"

[Eug]

When I was on vacation in Beijing for a few weeks, I met someone that I went to elementary school with in Canada.

[moonmonkey]

I tried to call my girlfriends new mobile number (had to type it in manually) while in a cab in Beijing, I must have misdialled it and phoned the cab driver who was driving me, we were both very shocked.

[Big Mac]

Cool thread.

[brassplayersrock²]

I was in Germany having dinner with a female friend on my birthday, and she looked over to the table behind us and at this table was a friend of hers from elementary school that she hadn't seen in years.

[- - e r i k - -]

Once my (then) mother in law tried calling me on my mobile. She misdialled the number and got my ex instead (we were one digit off as we got our phones at the same time). She was quite perturbed and demanded to know what the hell she was doing with my phone and to put me on at once.

Very odd.

[sek929]

I picked up the house phone to call my g/f since my cell was dead and instead of a dial tone I heard her on the other end. Apparently she was calling my house and I picked the phone up before it had a chance to ring.

[design219]

When I was a kid my parents took me to Disney World in Florida (4 states away from home) and I saw a kid from my school that I really, really didn't like. It was mutual. An extremely weird feeling... Wow, someone from back home ... Oh, crap, it's you. We just kind of looked at each other and nodded our heads, then looked away.