Wedding Car
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Around 5 or 6 years ago my friends and I were walking to the shops when a very fancy looking wedding car drove past us. The registration on the car was '** DWG.' One of my friends made a comment something like 'Thats a nice car dawg!' DWG-dawg
Please excuse the terrible joke, I would have been about 17 at the time and believe me I would not have included it had it not been neccesary.
Literally straight after this we walked to my house just along the road. When we arrived, my sister had taken a box of old photographs out of the loft. One of my friends and I looked through a few of them and stumbled upon a photo of the exact car with the same registration that we had seen 5 minutes before. It turned out it was my aunt's wedding car in 1990.
She was married in Stepps in Glasgow and I live 20 minutes from Glasgow but I don't think this should take anything away from the coincidence as I didn't attend the wedding. Also, my dad has many boxes of photographs in the loft of which my sister could have chosen any to look at. There are so many photographs up there that had I looked through all of them before, there is no way I could have subconsciously remembered a registration.
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Date submitted:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:18:56 +0000Coincidence ID:5762
