The iron mountain coincidence.
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I was on a coach traveling from Kent in England to the Highlands of Scotland which is about 600 miles, I was trying to kill time so I decided to tidy up my mobile phone contacts, I had a friends work number which needed updating so as I selected her work contact I looked out of the coach window and 2 mtrs across the pavement and in big letters on the wall almost close enough to touch was the name of her company `IRON MOUNTAIN' which is a data security company. It would seem that our coach was stuck in the traffic at exactly that point in a 600 mile journey and I happened to look up at the exact time of updating her work contact number. Indeed there are three branches in Scotland ...Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Glasgow and this was the Glasgow branch. I could understand it better if we were talking about a branch of McDonolds but her company has only got a handful of branches in the whole country.........Whats are the chances of this.
Date submitted:Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:59:36 +0000Coincidence ID:7189
