caro
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Post by caro on Sept 15, 2015 2:09:35 GMT
My DD was born on 4/8. Her DH was born on 4/9 and their first child was born on 4/10.
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melissa
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Post by melissa on Sept 15, 2015 3:30:58 GMT
There were a few little moments like this in my early cancer journey.
One happened the day I got my port. It was the one procedure I had never done or assisted in or even seen. That made me very nervous. It was a scary day for me, somehow scarier then getting chemo. They were running so late that day and I ended up dehydrated, so it was even harder than usual to get my IV started. Couldn't help the tears. The nurse said to me, "you don't remember." I didn't know what she was talking about. It turned out that I was a resident when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and I had held her hand and comforted her through pre-op and in the OR... and now she was doing the same for me.
The next bit happened on my first day of chemo. Another yucky day just because you just don't know what it's going to be like, etc. Chemo room at my onc's is a good place- much like a coffee shop. Nice place to be aside from the circumstances. Anyway, was chatting with the various nurses, including my chemo nurse who felt like she knew me from somewhere. Long story short, she had taken care of my mother many years ago in the hospital (before this nurse moved into oncology). She knew my mother quite well actually. One of the hardest things about going through cancer treatment was not having my mother there. It was something that bothered me greatly. This felt like a message from her.
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Post by honeyb on Sept 15, 2015 3:44:00 GMT
Once when I was at a crop, I sat at a table with a woman who was scrapping pictures from a trip to France. I was scrapping pictures from our trip to Spain, France, and Italy.
We started talking about the things we did in France and I was telling her about how much I loved the Saturday Market in Nice. She had also gone to the Saturday Market.
I got out my pictures to show her, and she was in one of the pictures that I had taken at an olive oil booth. We had both bought olive oil there, apparently at the same time!
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Post by malibou on Sept 15, 2015 4:12:14 GMT
I have a few.
My sister and I were driving thru Tennessee on our way to Indiana. We got a flat tire and needed a tow. While we were waiting for the car we were walking about this tiny little town when a lady came up to me and said, "Well, you are surely a mymaidenname, is Jim your pappy?" You guessed it, indeed I am Jim's daughter. My parents divorced when I was little and it turned out I had a load of kin in that tiny town.
In Paris a few years ago, a girl came up to me on the street to tell me how I looked just like a girl she went to first grade with in Indiana. I commented that her husband looked like my middle school friend's brother from Oregon. Both were correct.
We moved from Indiana to Oregon in the middle of fourth grade. My desk at my new school had formerly been occupied by a girl that had moved away the week before. Her name was all over stuff. Years later we moved to another town in Oregon and on my first day of school I sat next to a girl that would become my bff, same girl.
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Post by SabrinaM on Sept 15, 2015 5:42:12 GMT
Eight years ago we moved to a small town near Raleigh, NC from Orlando, Florida. My oldest had been going to the school for a couple of years when I noticed the music teacher with a Florida Gators shirt. Come to find out, she was in the HS band with my brother-in-law in Lake Mary, Fl (outside Orlando).
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Post by rainangel on Sept 15, 2015 6:04:18 GMT
It ends up that "distributor Ingrid" is the sister of "Ravelry Jeannette". What are the odds of that! No way!!! That's insane! that's gotta be one of the best co-incidences I've heard. I replied that I could easily find rugby-themed scrapbookingstuff in Australia as it's THE sport over there. You must have lived in NSW or Qld because they're the only 2 states who give two shits about rugby - every other state is into AFL. Maroooooons
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Post by leftturnonly on Sept 15, 2015 9:01:39 GMT
I'm on the knitting site Ravelry. There is a lady on an Indonesian/Dutch forum and her name is Jeannette. She started a post that I replied to and she commented that she has an older sister named Ingrid. I said that's so funny, I have an older sister named Jeannette. A week later I'm on the phone placing an order with one of my distributors. The distributor is a huge company in Washington state with tons of reps that answer the phones. The lady asks for my account # and name. When I say "Ingrid" she says "that's my name too". We start chatting and she says that her mom is Dutch. I chime in and say 'so is my dad'. It ends up that "distributor Ingrid" is the sister of "Ravelry Jeannette". What are the odds of that! Anyone else have any small world coincidences? Bless you for sharing your story. I don't believe in coincidences like that, so I really find great hope and joy in these kinds of stories.
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Post by gillyp on Sept 15, 2015 9:29:13 GMT
I know there are loads I've encountered involving numbers, places and people but I can't recall any other that this which, to me, is a little spooky.
My maternal grandmother died on my birthday and my granddaughter was born on the anniversary of my mother's death. The first time I held my DGD I felt I knew her and every time we look at each other since, the same thought pops in my head, that I know this child from before she was born. My mother always used to say being with me was like living in a goldfish bowl as we always knew what the other was thinking. I am getting those vibes from this DGD. She's only a toddler but it will be interesting to see if my feelings continue as she grows.
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Post by TankTop on Sept 15, 2015 10:06:36 GMT
I went college in Indiana.
Years later tee I was in an outside garden center at Kmart San Diego. I ran in quickly to buy sunscreen on the way to the beach. The tshirt I had on said "Proud to be an Indiana State Educator!" On the back.
the man behind me commented on it. Turns out it was my favorite professor from the university.
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Post by bbkeef on Sept 15, 2015 13:05:52 GMT
I went to a small venue concert in March. We chit chat with the people sitting at the table with us and the guy across from me drops the line "you look so familiar". I told him where I was from, etc. then he hands me a business card and I see the very unusual last name and it dawns on me. I ask if he has a brother named Ken and he says yes. I dated his brother 24 years ago and he was my first true love. So through this weird meeting of said brother, Ken asks for my number and we had a couple calls. He apologized for the past and told me I was the one that got away!
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Sept 15, 2015 13:28:20 GMT
I've had many but there are 2 from here in the Pod. Unfortunately, they both involved the death of someone.
The first was several years ago. I have a good friend here IRL that had a friend who committed suicide. Shortly after my friend posted on Facebook, a Pea requested prayers for a friend of her's who's son committed suicide. Turns out it was the same family. I (and my friend) live in GA and if I remember correctly, the Pea lived in VA.
The second was just a few weeks ago. A friend of mine's brother and sil were both killed in an accident. Then a Pea posts for prayers for a good friend of her's who lost her husband in an accident. The Pea posted a link to the article and it turns out it was the same accident. The brother and sil were the older couple and then the Pea's friend was the wife in the younger couple. My friend lives in FL and her brother lived in ND.
Some that are more lighthearted.
Years ago, I worked for a temp agency and was working one summer for State Farm's regional office. Not long before I started there, I was talking to one of my cousins (she's older) and she mentioned that if I ever needed a job, she and her husband both worked for State Farm. When I started there, I had forgotten all about that. So my desk was on the end on a walk way area. One day this older gentleman comes by and checks the call log on my phone. I didn't think anything about it. Fast forward a bit and I remember what my cousin had said. Her husband was the one that had come by my desk that day. In my defense, I hadn't seen them since I was like 14. At that time, we lived in different states. Like I said, they were older. It was funny when I put 2 and 2 together.
Several years ago, we were at a ball game for one of my kids (thinking it was my ds). My mom was there and she found one of her cousins that lived in the area (we had just moved out here not long before). She said something to me and pointed them out. Fast forward to this past spring and then about a month or so ago. My daughter tried out for middle school cheer and in the process I met a lady and her daughter. We became friends on facebook. Over the course of the summer, it hit me, wait a second, I think that is my mom's cousin's wife. Sure enough, when she posted her address on facebook for someone (why I'm not sure), I was like yep!
I know there are more incidences I can't think of right now.
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Post by peano on Sept 15, 2015 13:49:48 GMT
I have a non-human coincidence. My first semester at Tulane I was taking a science class and I was bombing--a D or maybe even an F. We were given an assignment due the week after Thanksgiving break.
The assignment was to write a paper about the naturally occurring features of our hometowns--the flora and fauna, geological features etc. I came home for the week, preparing to spend the entire time scrounging desperately through books in the library, only to find the local newspaper was running a week-long in-depth series on the flora and fauna and geological features of my hometown. I got an A on the paper and passed the class.
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Post by flopsykitty on Sept 15, 2015 13:53:08 GMT
Last year, my husband and I decided to spend the weekend at a B&B in Maine, where a high school friend was the proprietor. The first morning, we went down to have breakfast with the other folks staying there, and during our "getting to know each other" discussions, I mentioned that I was a cross stitcher. The woman across from me mentioned she was a stitcher as well, and as we talked, we learned that she belonged to the same needlework guild as my sister, and in fact had sat next to her at their last stitch night! My sister lives in Colorado! We had my husband take a photo of us together and sent it to my sister with no explanation. It was so much fun explaining to her how we met!
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Post by magentapea on Sept 15, 2015 15:53:58 GMT
At my 25th high school reunion I ran into a girl in the bathroom that I had a few classes with. We were chatting for a few minutes and she mentioned that she lived in a very small town outside of Traverse City (about 5 hours away from where we grew up). I told her my DH grew up there. I grabbed my DH and she grabbed hers and THEY ARE COUSINS! How weird is that?!?!?
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Post by amypeach1978 on Sept 15, 2015 16:20:01 GMT
In July of 2013, I met my (now) husband. I grew up in Northern Kentucky.
My husband has lived in Southwest Ohio his whole life--about 8 years ago he bought the family farm from his aunt and uncle (it's been in his family since the 1940s or 1950s when his grandparents bought it).
We got married on the farm last July and my sister (Andrea) posted pictures of the wedding on Facebook. One of her friends (who lives in Indiana) commented on the pictures, "how are you on the farm I grew up at?!?" It turns out that my sister's friend Holly is first cousins on her mom's side with my husband's first cousin on her dad's side (Sarah)--Holly's mom died when she was young and Holly spent a *lot* of time on that family farm when she and Sarah were growing up.
My sister and Holly had worked together a few years ago (in Indiana)--that's how they were friends. What's kind of funny is that we were going to invite Holly to the wedding, but we decided it against it because she had just had a baby and we thought it would be too much.
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Post by paigepea on Sept 15, 2015 16:30:03 GMT
My DD was born on 4/8. Her DH was born on 4/9 and their first child was born on 4/10. I have a friend like this. 4 kids. Born aug 29, then sept 29, then October 29, and the forth was due Nov 29. She went into labour on the 28th and her dh told her to keep her legs crossed. Baby was born at 12:01 am on Nov 29.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Sept 16, 2015 0:08:39 GMT
If anyone feels left out with this small world experience then go to your facebook and look at the list of your friend's friends and see if they share any mutual friends with you. ( other than the friend/ friends that are obvious) There's a big chance that some of your friend's friends will be friends with other friends of yours. Connections you are not aware of. I'm sure even some of you are friends with my friends. I don't just mean virtual friends but actual friends you have known in life, for years. Curious??
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Post by kraft4fun on Sept 16, 2015 6:28:49 GMT
When I was living in Australia and about to pack up and head back home to Norway, I was a member of a scrapbookingforum for Norwegians. There was someone posting a question if they knew where to get rugby-themed papers. She had family in England that were rugby fans, but rugby is not a big sport in Norway, so none of the Norwegian scrapbookingstores had rugby-themed papers or stickers. I replied that I could easily find rugby-themed scrapbookingstuff in Australia as it's THE sport over there. I also said I was going back to Norway in a few days, so it would be quicker for me to just bring the rugbypapers on the plane, and then send them to her when I got back to Norway. Turns out she lived in the same small town as me in Norway! And that my dad and her dad grew up together! We are to this day BFF's, and our dads always enjoys helping us out with moving heavy stuff if that means the two of them get to meet up and reminisce about the good old days. Oh, and I have just started reading 'A Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule, and her 'small world' story that she writes about in that book is the creepiest one yet. For those of you who haven't read it: She wrote crimestories for newspapers back in the day, and one of the stories she wrote about was a serial killer. Years later this serial killer gets caught. Turns out it was Ted Bundy. And Ann Rule worked with him during the time she was writing crimestories about the unknown serial killer who turned out to be Ted Bundy. Love Ann Rule, and yes they worked at the crisis center together. Sent from my NX008HD8G using proboards
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Post by kateri5 on Sept 16, 2015 11:32:55 GMT
I've got a few coincidences. My birthday is March 4th and my oldest daughter was born on Feb 4th, despite being due on March 15th. My son was due August 6th and was born May 17th and ex-dh's birthday is June 18th (too bad he didn't wait another day to be born!). My youngest was born March 21st but was due on May 7th, her best friend's birthday.
I am now an RN but was a scrub tech in Labor & Delivery prior to becoming a nurse. I was chit chatting with a patient who we were getting ready to do a C-section on. She mentioned she had a few older kids, I asked where they went to school and realized they went to the same elementary school that my kids went to. I came to find out that this family lived on the street right behind my house and that when I sat on my deck I could see her kids playing outside and riding their bikes up and down their very long driveway. I, of course didn't mention this to her as it seemed verging on creepy! She also owns a cheer studio which several people I work with send their daughters to. A year or so after meeting this patient, I happened to see her at the Fall Festival at the school but hesitated to say anything to her as it was potentially creepy and because I looked way different and she might not even remember or recognize me, as when I'm in the OR, I have on a hair cover and a mask, so I didn't think I'd be recognizable. I decided to say hey to her and she remembered me, hugged me and introduced me to the baby that I'd helped deliver, who was now a toddler!
My oldest daughter went to a very small engineering college in Boston (Olin in Needham). It has about 300 students. We live in Georgia. One day I was working and a co-worker asked me to come see her. She was talking to the pharmacist for our part of the hospital and asked me where my daughter went to college. Come to find out that the pharmacist's daughter also was going to Olin, was 2 years older than my daughter and they were both in the same major. The crazy thing about it is that there haven't been that many students that go to Olin from Georgia, so this was so amazing. My daughter gets a job out of school and decides to look for another job and reaches out to the pharmacist's daughter (as they'd become friends while they were at school)and this girl helped her get in touch with a person so she could apply and interview at the company that she worked for. She is now working at the same company as the pharmacist's daughter in Boston.
Ex-dh and I had a few coincidences. I went to high school in KY and he went to high school in West VA and we both graduated the same year. We both went to Senior Night at Kings Island in Cincinnati the same day. He went to Duke and I went to NC State and we were both in ROTC. We realized that we were at the same ROTC functions several times at the same time but never met. We both worked for Dominos Pizza, him in Durham and me in Raleigh. We met when I started working at the store in Durham.
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Post by ingrid6 on Sept 16, 2015 13:01:01 GMT
My DD was born on 4/8. Her DH was born on 4/9 and their first child was born on 4/10. I have a friend like this. 4 kids. Born aug 29, then sept 29, then October 29, and the forth was due Nov 29. She went into labour on the 28th and her dh told her to keep her legs crossed. Baby was born at 12:01 am on Nov 29. That's pretty cool! All 5 of my daughters have 6 in their birthdates and 3 were born on the 26th. My only ds is the only one that isn't a 6. 3/26/, 7/26, 10/26, 3/6, 11/6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2015 13:11:34 GMT
My mom was born on 4/16, my brother was born on 12/16 and I was born on 3/16.
Then my sister-in-law and I were pregnant at the same time. She was due 7/1 and my c-section was scheduled for 7/8. Well, she was overdue and her daughter was born on 7/8 about eight hours before mine. Then two years later she was pregnant again, due on 7/15. This time she delivered early instead of late on - you guessed it - 7/8! So there are 3 girls in the family with the same birthday. They still all like to celebrate together if we can.
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Post by PEArfect on Sept 16, 2015 13:55:30 GMT
LH and I met cruisin' when we were 16/17. He and his friends pulled over me and my gf because he thought I was someone else. When we exchanged names and numbers he realized the girl his mistook me for was my cousin. They were in the same graduating class, different school then me. They lived one road apart. Of course I stayed over at her house several times when we were younger. Just one street over from my future husband. Before I met my husband my chemistry lab partner went to junior prom with him. She and her friend (who went with his best friend) were talking about these guys from another school, prom, and on and on. I essentially 'knew' him before I actually knew him. I dated a few guys before I started dating my LH. We crossed paths with all three of them while we were married. The first guy I dated ended up living in a duplex next took my LH's best friend. The second guy I dated ended up being the one that fitted my LH for his tux for our wedding. That was awkward. I didn't mention that I knew him until after we left. The third guy ended up working with my LH. That was a little awkward too. Of course I didn't date any of these guys for very long. Just a few dates within a few months. We were teenagers, not a big deal. We have duplicate birthdays in our family. 12/29 my daughter, my cousin, LH's grandmother 3/31 my mom, LH's nephew 5/14 my nephew, my brother in-law This is something I've been thinking about lately. My LH was 39 when he died. My paternal grandfather was 39 when he died. My grandmother got remarried after he died, then divorced. Her second husband died at the age of 43 after they were divorced. My cousin (on my dad's side) got divorced a few years ago. Her ex was found dead in his home less than three weeks ago on my birthday 8/28. He was 43.
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suzastampin
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Post by suzastampin on Sept 16, 2015 14:03:42 GMT
We used to live at the lake in the summer. I had made a few friends there, and one family always had a huge Italian meal on Sunday. They had a ton of family and all came every weekend. So, fast forward to the spring of 1975. I get my first job at a tv station. I walk in the front door the first day and who do I see....the grandfather! He did maintenance. Then, as I'm being introduced to everybody, I see one of the uncles! He's in the production department. Talk about a small world. I had no idea they worked there.
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Post by kels99 on Sept 16, 2015 14:55:38 GMT
We live in WA state. A friend I've known for years got to talking last Christmas and it ends up that she grew up with my BIL (in TX) and was his sister's BFF. Such a small world.
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Post by bc2ca on Sept 16, 2015 17:30:39 GMT
I love reading these stories and didn't think I had anything to add until I was talking to my sister last night.
A few years ago DH's HS friend & family were visiting us in CA. R was looking at the photo gallery, took off his glasses and moved in for a closer look and said
"hey, is that S?" "yes, how do you know her?" "I was her principal - how do you know her?" "She's my sister"
DH has a lot of teacher/principal friends in Vancouver, but most are at the HS level. My sis only taught for a couple of years on the other side of town in a big district at the elementary level so it never occurred to me she might have met/worked with any of them. They worked together for one summer school session 15 years earlier and it was his first Principal job. I told my sis the story and she and R have reconnected. Last night when we were talking, I mentioned DH was getting together with R & other friends for a golf weekend and she said she was so glad she'd reconnected with him and he was helping her navigate the requirements to get back into teaching.
Another story is from when my dad moved into a retirement community a couple of years ago. One sis & I were having lunch with him and they sat a 4th person at the table with us. We were only introduced by first names and M was telling us a story about her oldest daughter that had a tie-in to where I live in CA and how she was very familiar with the area. She then said something about her other 2 daughters that made my sis & I stop eating, look at each other with instant recognition and say at the same time "where did your younger girls go to school?". I graduated with her 2nd daughter, S, but didn't know her that well. In a funny coincidence though, I was having dinner that night with S's HS boyfriend, who I did know really well, and ended up marrying one of my oldest HS BFFs.
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Post by lovinlife on Sept 16, 2015 17:30:33 GMT
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. My husband's grandfather is from Battle Creek lol
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Post by bc2ca on Sept 16, 2015 17:49:15 GMT
OK, I'm on a roll. A friend of mine had a wedding photo of DH & I sitting on her mantle. Another friend of hers sees it and recognizes DH immediately.
According to my friend, the window of opportunity for him to see the photo is about a week at most because she would have put it in an album pretty quickly. My friend and this other guy worked together in a very small mining town in northern BC and he was traveling through Vancouver and stopped to visit. He grew up in a different small town with DH. DH moved away when he was 14 and he was 38 when we got married.
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Post by jemali on Sept 16, 2015 17:58:33 GMT
DH and I were down at the University of MN where dd is going to college for move in day. There was a place that parents could hang out, we started talking to one of the staff members at the school. She asked where we were from, we told her Dayton. She asks "Ohio?" we said, No, Minnesota. She says "Oh, my daughter just bought a house in Dayton" I asked Ohio? She said, "No, Minnesota." So we asked her where it was, she started describing some things around it. I asked if it was on *** Street, and she said Yes! It turns out I had just met her daughter a couple days previously, she lives 4 houses away from me.
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Post by janniepea on Sept 16, 2015 18:29:39 GMT
My stories center around pictures. Shortly after I graduated from college I went to the wedding of a good friend. We were looking at pictures some time later, just candids, and in one of the pictures, my husband and I are standing near each other talking with other people but we'd not met yet and didn't meet for a couple of years more!
The other picture was from the reception after my husband's graduation from seminary/master's degree. His parents took a picture of us at the reception and standing right behind us was another pastor that he went on to work with! Again, we'd not met at that point.
All of these stories are so fun!
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