Cambridge Coincidences Collection

I was on holiday in spain in 1999 and met some guys who lived in the UK, we had a few drinks together and got on well. After saying our fairwells we returned back to the UK. A couple of days later I thought I would ring may mam to tell her about the holiday, I must have miss keyed her home telephone number as one of the guys who I met on holiday aswered the phone even though I had never been given his number ? His number was only one digit differant from my mothers.

In summer 1970 my family and I had had a disastrously bad weather experience camping in NW Scotland and were taking a week at random in South Wales as compensation before school and work began again. We did not choose the camp site at Llangennith but were forced by earlier choices being full up. The only suitable pitch for our rather large tent was next to a family which was just beginning to pack up, and, after we were established, we offered to give a hand, as campers do. The fellow asked what I did and when I said I was in the RAF asked if I knew so and so. Surprisingly, I did, (at the time there were only about 180,000 in the RAF so it was quite a good bet!) and we chewed the fat about this character whom we both admired as it happened.

Hi my name is Mike, I am now 68 yrs old, but when I was very young (12), in 1957 my family moved from Dublin, Ireland to Worcester, Massachusetts. this is a lengthy story but I must give you some details. Three years later we moved to Los Angeles., this being the early sixties and me being a free spirit I left home and went to San Francisco to sample some flower power. From there I traveled extensively, not returning to L.A. for about 10 years. During which time my sister Dorothy married, but I had not met her husband. I then traveled to Dublin for a holiday, liked it so much I decided to stay. Met my wife to be and we decided to marry. At this time I was looking for a house to purchase and found this tiny hamlet about 20 miles north of Dublin, just 12 houses and a pub, ideal spot. Six months later we were married and moved into the house. At which time we met our neighbours next door, Ken and Patricia. as we got to know each other some coincidences emerged, just simple things like his family and mine both left Ireland in 1957. but his family went to South Africa. But then his dad moved the family to California, however Ken rather than go to the states returned to Ireland.

I was watching the quiz show 'the chase' when one of the questions informed me that Indiana Jones' hat was called a Fedora. After the show finished I decided to catch up an episode of 'the Big Bang theory' when one of the characters asked the other to borrow the others Fedora for a Halloween party. This was the first time I had heard of this and I think it a coincidence that they both happened on the same day. I do recall this kind of thing has happened to me around 3 times at least.