A voice from the past

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When my children were very small, I took them, (from our home in Norfolk), to stay with my son's godparents, at RAF Cranwell, where they were stationed. This would have been in about 1969. While we were there, my hostess organised a shopping trip into Sleaford with some of her friends. One of these was the mother of a three year old girl, who was due to be brought back from playgroup at three in the afternoon. Our shopping trip overran a little, and we were a few minutes late back. On the friend's doorstep was an indignant three year old, saying, 'Mummy, where were you?' The way in which she had said these words of admonishment stayed with me over the years, and often came back to me, when I was in danger of being late for my own children. Fourteen years later, now a widow, I was living in High Wycombe, and my new partner, (now my second husband), took me to meet his son's prospective in laws, in Denham, Bucks., who were not over enthusiastic about the marriage, especially as their daughter was only seventeen. As we sat making rather stilted conversation, I began to feel that I had met the girl's mother before somewhere. She had a very distinctive voice. I began to ask where we might possibly have met, and, after a while, having established that the girl's father was recently retired from the RAF, wondered if this was where our paths might have crossed. Eventually, we established that he had been stationed at RAF Cranwell in 1969, and the girl's mother and I had both been on that shopping trip to Sleaford, an occasion that both mother and daughter remembered! The girl that my future step son finally married was the very child who had said 'Mummy where were you? It was an unbelievable coincidence, and helped greatly to break the ice!
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:54:28 +0000Coincidence ID:5150

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Mon, 16/01/2012 - 4:21pm

I will change the names TO Mary Anne and Marie ( because I don't wish to use real names without permission) Now this is a story with several coincoidences First I with two other friends were trying to arrange a school reunion ( but on the elderly side ) Still being in contact with Mary who lives in Sunderland I rang her and could you please tell Ann and Marie I said Mary replied that she had never seen Ann in over 10 years as she had moved away and as for Marie she had emigrated to South Africa Two weeks later Mary rang me with this story She had been to the supermarket and getting home realised she had lost her hand bag after checking with the store that it had not been handed in she went to the police to report the loss The following day her car was in for a service and on returning home by bus picked up an answerphone message from the police to say Awoman had phoned to say she had run after Mary with the bag but unable to catch her and short of time she took it home Mary got the name and address of the lady who lived in a town outside of Sunderland and armed with a boquet of flowers boarded the bus However into the journey she had the feeling she was on the wrong bus and got off She approached a lady just leaving her house and asked where she could get the bus to the other town You have just got off it replied the lady but I am going there to meet a friend I will give you a lift The conversation in the car was that this lady met up each wek with her friend and it was her turn to go to her friends town Mary said she was going to Hawthorn road and the driver said that she was also going there but the lady with the handbag lived further down than her friend The driver then pulled up outside of her friends house and as her friend approached the car Mary said I know her that is Ann we went to school together The driver then looked at Mary and asked her if she was Mary D yes she replied and the driver said I am Marie all three ended up in hugs and laughter