Mr. Michael T

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I have written down most coincidences I have experienced over the past couple of years. One of the stranger one is as follows. In June a neighbour mentioned she has a house in Greece with availability to rent in August (We had not known earlier about the house). In mid July we decide to rent the house. Our neighbour says friends of hers will meet us at the airport in Greece and take us to the house. In Greece, we were met by the friends and got talking. The husband explains that he was made redundant a number of years earlier and that they decided to buy a house in Greece. Outside, the tourist season things get very quiet, they needed more money and decided to spend six months of each year living back in England. The coincidences are: • The husband tells how they decided to buy and live on a houseboat for the six months a year they spend in England; just before I left for Greece my brother mentioned he had bought a houseboat. • The husband then said the houseboat is berthed in Ely by the boathouse and asked did I know the area. I responded I knew both the area and the boathouse very well as I went to school there (a long time ago). • The husband then explained how he took a job in Ely working for a company called Morgan Est. I had never heard of this company before early July, when someone I know had asked me to meet an engineer friend of his in London. The engineer had invented a machine and wanted some insight into how he could commercialise it. I met the inventor who detailed how his machine was being tested by a company called….. ..Morgan Est.
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Date submitted:Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:46:02 +0000Coincidence ID:5654