The number 8

As years have passed I am now retired, the number 8 still crops up frequently in my life. As a child we lived at a house with the number 80, round the corner lived my Nana at number 88. At that time it did.nt mean much until my parents moved to a house number 26. It was then that I started to add up any number I could think of that was relevant to us when I moved to house number 44! We owned three cars when I was young, Registration numbers were: HOL 989, SFH 611 and my mums car was KAB 44. All adding to 8 when added and reduced to a single number. I then tried phone numbers, again our first phone number, 26306, another 8!, our next number when we moved was 850544, 8 again. Moving on, my father sadly passed away in 2008 aged 88 on 01.06.2008 My daughter was recently married on the 17th of the month at 17.00 hours. My partner was born on the 17th of the month and my birthday falls in the 8th month. My family think I am a bit odd adding up any numbers close to us, there are other examples as well but I have just given a few here. Maybe this is just coincidence but I would be interested for any comment!