T'was meant to be!

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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I was on a night out with my friend and she bumped into her boyfriend. After a while they started arguing and she decided to leave and go home. Not wanting to hang up my dancing shoes just then and annoyed that she had gone home, i decided to go to the next bar and meet up with a few girls we were due to meet later that night. On my way there I caught a glimpse of one of the girls i was meeting in the window of the pub next door. Wondering why they were already out and hadnt told me, i stormed into the bar to approach them. As i walked through the door, i bumped straight into a man that was walking out. I apologised and explained that i was in a rush and looking for my friend. Kindly he opened the door for me to walk in and have a look - only for me to realise it wasn't my friend at all, but someone who looked very similar! Feeling silly, i apologised to the gentleman that i bumped into and went to leave to meet my friends in the correct pub. Coinsidentaly, the gentleman was just leaving to go to the same bar as me so i walked along with him and his friend. After meeting my friend (and having a few drinks), i noticed the gentleman in the bar and thanked him for his help earlier that night...........that was 10 years ago.....we will be married in 7 months! Had my friend not argued with her boyfriend and gone home, had i not thought i seen my other friend in a pub we NEVER went in and had he not been leaving at the very moment i walked in, we would probably never have met!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:14 +0000Coincidence ID:4920