Holiday weirdness
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Family friends of ours used to have a beige Princess car (comiserations, etc). Bizarrely their next door neighbour also had the same sort of car. The family went on a summer holiday to Newquay. One day they went to the beach and parked up in the car park, right next to a beige Princess car, with a suspiciously familiar number plate - yes, it was the next door neighbours car! The family concerned are from York, so it was a good 600 miles to Cornwall, and as far as I've heard there was no collusion on the holiday destination. Working on that assumption what are the odds of parking next to your neighbours car like this?
Date submitted:Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:17:51 +0000Coincidence ID:6556
