Travel/key coincidence
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Having just posted Travel Coincidences and including a coincidence involving a key (below) - I have just remembered another: While in South America, I was travelling with an overland truck and each passenger had a key to the padlock for the truck door. In El Chalten in Argentina, I lost my key. 4,500 miles further north, we stayed the night in a dormitory room near Uyuni in Bolivia. Hanging on the curtain rail I found a padlock key, which fitted our padlock. This had obviously been left and forgotten by a previous passenger using the same overland travel company, but still, it was amazing that it was me who found the key.
Date submitted:Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:10:07 +0000Coincidence ID:7109
