A trip to Scotland
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I live in Kent England and I have a close female friend who works for a company called `Iron Mountain' they only have two branches...one in Kent and one in Glasgow Scotland, whilst traveling by coach with my wife on holiday I fell asleep for about an hour and woke up in a traffic jam, I decided to spend some time tidying up the numbers on my mobile phone so I scrolled down the list and found the work number of my close female friend from `Iron mountain' as she told me it was a new number and EXACTLY at that moment I looked out of the coach window and two metres away on the wall was the name of the Scotland branch of Iron Mountain....we were actually sitting in a traffic jam outside of the branch at exactly the same moment as I looked for the number on our phone. I would not have been amazed if it was a regular high St store or McDonalds but there are only two branches in the UK and we were 4 hundred miles from home and stuck outside the branch at exactly that moment....what's the chances of that happening ??
Date submitted:Thu, 09 Jul 2015 08:34:14 +0000Coincidence ID:8165
