Just weird stuff.

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I am able to record coincidences in my day. They are extremely frequent and have no reason or purpose yet they happen anyways. A few short ones are I was driving behind a corvette with a DARE license place. He was driving like an asshole so I noticed it because I was paying attention. Later that night I was having a conversation with my friend and he mentioned the DARE program as a joke. Kinda odd. The other night I had a thought to myself about how when I was a child I was really afraid of letting balloons go in the air. We did these events where we let balloons go with cards at the end and I was afraid to let mine go because they'd never come back. Mine came back. I still have the post card they sent me. The next day I had gone to the Dollar Tree to get 12,000 staples from my store. Idiots keep shooting them at each other. While checking out I notice a lady blowing up balloons and don't pay much attention to them. I get to my store and as I leave for my first delivery of the day I see a single red balloon float across the sky. I was once having myself a nice country drive and passed a house I like because of their super bright orange Mustang. I notice as I pass by that the car isn't there and I was disappointed a bit. Atleast 5 minutes of driving later and its unmistakeable I pass that Mustang on its way home. What are the odds of that? This one is not really much, but its still kinda weird. I woke up in the morning having to use the bathroom and found my dad was cleaning the front bathroom I asked him to move out and he did. He left his music playing in the bathroom. Music isn't something I listen too when I do my business, but it wasn't bad. A Black Eyed Peas song comes on and sticks with me. A few hours later the same friend I had mentioned earlier and I were talking and he mentioned the Black Eyed Peas band in some joke like before. I cannot remember the joke. Later that night I was browsing reddit and found a subreddit for bad music taste and found a cover video for Black Eyed Peas. Coincidence. The friend I share coincidences with and I have the same birthday. I was using my binoculars to take pictures of the moon the other night and got bored and laid down and looked up into the sky. I had started thinking about how another friend of mine had never seen a shooting star and that I was hoping to see one. I'd say a good 3 minutes pass and right across the sky a rock burned up. It was a happy coincidence for sure. I laughed at this one. When I go to Wendys I usually have my pizza topper on my car because I work when I get food. I went there on an off day and thought to myself how it was the first time I had gone there without my topper. As I finished my thought a Dominos delivery driver pulls up right behind me. I had never seen another driver before. I guess if I didn't have a topper on, someone else had to take my place haha. Last story is when I was delivering a pizza and had thought to myself it would be cool if there was a 1337 Street. *Leet* gaming term I don't even use. That wasn't the point though the sound of it I liked. I'm not sure how many days passed but it was a few and I had a delivery to a street and the house number was 1337. I tell the story to a friend who happens to be another delivery driver for a different company while I sit on some deliveries with him. As we get to his delivery we pass Sleet street. It meant nothing, but the fact we were talking about how the universe is connected from the start to finish I thought it was awesome to have that coincidence happen.
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Date submitted:Fri, 29 May 2015 09:42:33 +0000Coincidence ID:8107