Hotel Room numbers

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On visiting Kyoto Japan on a stopover to Australia, our room no. was 326, in Cairns Australia the room no. was 3246, In melbourne the car no. reg'n was 4, hotel room no. 4 and the no. of the guest house was no.4. The lottery numbers that week were 2 3 4 32 39 and star no. 44. Unfortunately I only did 2 lines with these nos. and received $10 Aust. We changed a car from no. 53 and purchased a new car with registration 539. Since then we have had a room no. 539 in a hotel in Malta and the cabin no. on a ship was 359. These numbers have occurred frequently since then, £59.53 , £ 39.95, etc. on visits to supermarkets. On looking at some old photographs of cars we have purchased, we noticed three cars with registrations 704,744 and 74. Meeting people on holiday at the same hotel and then meeting up with them again in a completely different country. This has happened on at least 4 occasions. Speaking to people for a few minutes in a restaurant in Florida and then 10 years later being on the same table on a cruise, was just unbelievable.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:34:09 +0000Coincidence ID:4690

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Anonymous (not verified)

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 7:27pm

A lady I met and made friends with several years ago has several anniversary dates with myself.
We were both married on the same day and year, both had a father named John, my Mother's maiden name was the surname of her married daughter(Not a very common surname) both our Mother's died of the same illness and we both have the same serious complaint.

Another friend lived at the same no. of house, her husband's birthday was the same as mine. Her brother had the same birthday as my Father and her Mother in Law had the same birthday as my Mother in Law.