Small world! What are your coincidences?

I met my SO online. He lived in Massachusetts and I lived in Ohio. In conversation, he mentioned that he had an uncle who'd moved to Ohio and had worked at a certain hospital. My aunt and uncle ALSO worked at that hospital, which was funny enough, but it turned out they knew each other and in fact, his uncle had taught them how to eat lobster.

When we lived in Portland (not a small city!) new people moved into the apartment next door. Turns out one of them knew DH from work.

When we moved here (also not a small city) we discovered the lady right next door used to work with DH (until she retired). Unfortunately DH can't stand her.

Next time we move we are interviewing the neighbors to make sure we don't know them from DH's work...

The funny part is DH is pretty anti-social and I know more people than he does, but we never moved next door to anyone I know...

I don't know if this is coincidence, but kind of funny. A girl I went to school with when I lived OR, now lives in Spokane, WA and I live in Ventura, CA. I let her know I would be in that area next week and would love to see her, to which she replied, "oh I'd love to, but I'm going to be in Ventura for a wedding that week." Lol

I live in the Houston area now, but I'm originally from a small town in Oklahoma.

My lifelong friend, E, grew up in my hometown, went to law school in Tennessee and now lives in North Carolina. E met B while they were attending law school in Tennessee and they became close friends. B now lives in Dallas.

My daughter went to an out of state school and pledged a sorority. B's daughter went to the same school a year later and happened to pledge the same sorority. E figured out the connection through Facebook posts. My daughter and B's daughter have become close friends. B and I got to know each other on Mom's weekend and now we are friends.

Sometimes I can't believe how small the world is!

Back when I was little and just in Kindergarten, my Mom had gone back to work as a hairdresser a couple days per week. My brother and I went to a babysitter on the Friday - him all day, me after school for the afternoon.

When my oldest started Grade 9, we carpooled to another city for an arts program. Tuesday was my day to drive in and home, so I'd hang in town. And got to know a fellow cake gal, who has since become one of my best pals. We were chatting about where we had grown up, and she mentioned her Grandmother living beside the school I had gone to in Kindergarten.

Turns out, her Grandmother had been my babysitter! (ok she's WAY younger than I am lol) Her Mom & Uncle were teenagers when we were there.

VERY small world!!

A couple of years ago, DH and I were a the wedding reception of a work associate of his. We started chatting with another couple at our table. The wife mentioned being from MI, and I said I was from MI too (we all live in Vegas now). She said she was raised in Battle Creek. When I told her that was where my dads family was from, she asked what my maiden name was. Her jaw hit the floor (very unusual name), and asked if I was related to Donny? Turns out she had gone to her SR prom with my first cousin 25 years earlier.

in my family it's about birthdays, specifically August 9. My dd was born on that day - and so was my dh's father, sister, & his brother's wife. In addition one of my friends has that birthday & so does my co-workers daughter. Its really very bizarre.

Chatting with a guy on an online dating site, the regular initial back and forth questions. He tells me where he works and I said that my dad had worked with that company his entire career. He tells me his Dad was with the same company as well. We did some chatting about our parents ages and the various locations we had both been transferred to growing up and figured since both dads had been in management there was enough of a common thread for them to know each other. He asked his dad who said they used to party hard together back in the day and my mom said his dad had actually stayed at our house when I was a small child, so I actually had met his dad.

in 2 weeks we will have been dating for a year  

When I met my husband for the first time we talked for hours. I knew he was divorced and somewhere in the conversation he mentioned his ex-wife's name.
Much later in the evening, after finding out where I grew up he said that was the same small town his ex was from. I immediately started thinking of all the people I knew with that first name, and then asked him which one was his ex. Turns out she was a year ahead of me in school, in my brother's class and one of her brothers was in my class. Her parents and my parents had known each other forever and our mothers have the same first name; we joke that all his mothers-in-law have that name.

He had also worked at the same place as my sister's husband. And we are friends with his ex and her husband.

I'm not sure maybe (my step dad was bprn in holland that would be the only reason she would be) i'm not sure which group she's in .. i know she's bunches of friends from the UK and Scotland but I'm not sure I'll ask her which group.She does her own dyes and  batches.

One of the manuscripts my publisher sent me was from a gal who lives two miles from my house. The publisher had no idea we even lived in the same state. We had lunch together a couple of weeks ago.

Well in my experience and after reading The Celestine Prophecy I call them synchronicities.
And according to my Mayan Galactic Signature I am a magnet to them.
Well way before I found this out I had many experiences of syncs to affirm this.

So I get these a lot and I love it.
So I will share the less far fetched sounding ones:

So my birthday is 3-16 and my boyfriend's is 11-17 ( and our daughter's is 1-18 )
And I see both these numbers/dates all the time.

When my boyfriend and I were at the store he told me to look at the ingredients on this box of Lipton flavored drink and the best by date was Nov1716pw3 ( I put the most far fetched one first )

At work when was checking for drinks out of date the only 2 front minute maid drinks that are side by side in the cooler had the expiration dates of the orange juice 11-17 and the apple juice 3-16.

Then when I was watching one of my 2 favorite episodes of My So Called Life recordings ( Self Esteem ) I noticed afterward that the date it first aired was 11-17 and the recorded date was 3-16.

When I was cleaning out our old desk I found our daughter's birth certificate and there they were again.
I laughed to myself after realizing the "duh" realization

Sometimes I will get 136 syncs or 361 syncs but I haven't noticed any 631 that I recall.
Sure people say it doesn't count cause it's out of order.
And I tell them they are numbers, not an amount.
I've had too many experiences noticing these "out of order" numbers in a row to dismiss them as not significant.

There were a ton of opportunities for numbers to show up at work and I found 316 all over the place. It was the 316 underlined when I scratched off someone's scratcher ticket. $3.16 was an amount of someone's purchase. When I did inventory the order of drinks to get was 3 cokes, 1 Pepsi, and 6 rockstars, someone told me a customer left their ID on the counter and gave it to me and their birthday on it was 3-16.
Sure some of these could be non- significant like a customer wanting 16 dollars on pump 3, but when it happens in a row 5 times in a matter of 20 minutes you know something is going on.
( I took a picture of all those happenings together to remember that day ... actually it happened more than one day. )

What's been happening lately is I will be reading something while the tv is on and when I read a word the tv says it. Yes far fetched maybe ..but while watching an episode of Tanked I was on fb and when reading the same thread within 30 seconds when I read degrees the tv said Degrees.
When I read crazy the tv said Crazy
And when I read shaky the tv said
Shake. ( I think crazy and shake were a sonic commercial )

But I notice when I wait for it to happen it won't, it's always a surprise.
Synchronicities don't vibe with expectations

Ok let me find my notes to share the rest ( in another post )

When DH and I were dating, we moved into a new apartment. In the parking lot, we ran into someone he worked with. We laughed about how we live in the same complex. Then we laughed again when we walked to the same building in the complex. Then we laughed again when we all walked to the 3rd floor and realized we were neighbors.