Cinema coincidence

Many years ago a conversation was struck up at work during a cigarette break about cinema-going experiences. My story was that approximately 8 years previously I had been to the opening screening of Rattle and Hum, the U2 film, at a cinema in Aldershot, The audience consisted on me, one other man sat a few rows in front of me to the right and a couple sat a few rows behind me. One of my acquaintances looked open-mouthed at me and said that he was the other man in the cinema. Confirming that it was a Saturday afternoon and that there were just three other people there. We were amazed at the coincidence. For a few weeks we reveled in this. Now that you would assume would be enough for some people. However, a few weeks later, we were discussing the story again, still not really believing it when my friend uttered the immortal line "To make this even more amazing, it would be great if the next person through that door (we were in the fire escape, smoking again) was one of the other people there". A few seconds later another colleague came out for a smoke and we asked her if she'd had any strange cinema-going experiences. When she started the sentence with "Well I did go and see Rattle and Hum...." we were totally gob-smacked. Yes, she was one half of the 'couple' sitting behind me. It turned out that it was her and a female friend who had very short hair at the time so in the dark of a cinema she could have been mistaken for a man. Of course our first reaction was to think she was winding us up and had heard us talking previously about the original coincidence but no, she swore she was telling the truth and had not heard about the story. One coincidence was amazing but two was mind-blowing. This does seem made up but believe me it is 100% true. We were all scared to relate this story again in public just in case we heard the line "yes I was the projectionist.." David Hornsey