Tell Us About the Crazy Coincidences You've Experienced

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I used to play PC online games, and recently the smartphone version came out, so I started playing it.
I happened to make some friends there, and we happened to live nearby, so we went to a movie together.
While we were talking, it turned out that we were friends from the PC version (we even exchanged emails).

That's synchronicity, isn't it?

I ended up attending the same high school as a university student I followed on Twitter for reasons I can't remember.

I transferred schools in elementary and ended up in the same high school and club as a friend I had parted ways with.

By the way, we're still good friends now.

I ran into my ex-girlfriend, who lives in a completely different area, while traveling abroad.
I hit the jackpot on a pachinko machine with the remaining balls from the previous player.

>>5
Sounds like the ending of Ocean's 13.

>>7
I should have kept quiet about the pachinko...

Listen, those aren't coincidences. They were destined by a higher power.

I went on a bike tour in Shimabara and met a fellow biker at Shimabara Outer Port. Two years later, I ran into the same biker by chance at Cape Soya.

I became friends with someone at university and found out we had lived in all the same places in the past.

We also bought the same book on the same day, and it wasn't even a new release.

On my first try with Dynamite King, I won on the first spin and got 9 consecutive wins. Then, after playing until I ran out of balls, I won again and got 20 consecutive wins. I made 130,000 yen with just 1,000 yen.

I saw a wild medaka fish.

Just now, someone posted a picture of their homemade oyakodon, so I posted a picture of a delicious oyakodon from a local restaurant. Someone replied, "I've been there," and I was surprised.

>>1
You guys are already best friends.

While taking photos with a friend on the Spanish Steps in Rome, someone called out to us. It turned out to be a middle school classmate who was there on their honeymoon.

My wife, who is from a neighboring prefecture, had her family register very close to my house.

Wanted to go to a shop but it was closed for the holidays, so I went to a Chinese restaurant instead, which turned out to be awful. Tried to cleanse my palate with a plum juice from a vending machine, but it was also terrible. The only drink I thought would be safe, Royal Milk Tea, was sold out. Then I got my toe run over by a cart's wheel.

>>20
There's no punchline!

>>21
It might sound trivial, but it was the first time I had such a streak of bad luck.

>>22
Not to be rude, but why do you consider that a streak of bad luck...?
How uneventful is your life usually?

>>24
Sorry, I usually have a lot of happy moments, but I rarely experience bad luck, so I was surprised.

A senior at my part-time job turned out to be a relative.

I met an old man at a live concert and we exchanged Twitter handles, but due to a mistake, I didn't follow him. Later, I saw an account that looked like his in a VTuber's livestream chat, and when I searched for it on Twitter, it was indeed him.

>>26
That's called "birds of a feather."

Dog poop fell from the sky.

At my grandpa's funeral, one of his war comrades suddenly showed up. They had lost contact after the war, but he happened to be at the same funeral hall for someone else's service, saw my grandpa's name, and was surprised. He said he wished he could have met him while he was still alive and paid his respects.

>>28
Wow, that's amazing.

My dad works at a company that was founded over 100 years ago, and one of the founders was my great-grandfather.

I bought a clock from a Village Vanguard in Yamaguchi, and it turned out to be the same one my childhood friend had hung on the wall during their part-time job 9 years ago.

My friend and I simultaneously said a completely unrelated word in unison.

I was riding my bike and looking back, and when I looked forward, there was a parked car. I couldn't brake in time, so I swerved and ended up falling into an irrigation ditch.

My younger brother almost married a girl whose family lived in the same town as our dad's family.

>>37
Why didn't your brother get married?

>>38
After my brother decided to move to Kanto for work, she cheated on him.

>>39
Burn the town down.

>>40
Well, my brother is also drowning in debt, so it can't be helped. The whole family just said, "It can't be helped."

>>41
Yeah, it can't be helped.

I've heard stories of people drowning in debt winning big in the lottery and breaking even...

Speaking of pachinko coincidences, I ran into my dad's coworker who used to play with me when I was little, 13 years later at a pachinko parlor. He used to be so energetic, but now he looked really old.

>>45
That's a common experience.
The shock of seeing an uncle's friend who used to be so lively turn into a frail old man after twenty years...
He used to be so confident, but now he was so self-conscious...

When people get sick, they age quickly. There were times when I didn't know what to say when I saw a business partner who had changed so much.

When I transferred to a small school with only 45 students, there were two other students with the same birthday as me. Even the teacher of the neighboring class had the same birthday.

By the way, if there are 23 people, there's over a 50% chance that two of them share the same birthday.

With 45 out of 365, having 2 people with the same birthday isn't that improbable.

>>53
There were 47 people including the teachers, and 4 of us had the same birthday...

>>56
It's rare in terms of probability, but not impossible.

>>56
I don't want to say it, but birthdays can be clustered around Christmas or Obon.

In my first year of high school, a friend told me a story about making another friend drink his urine. Every time I talked to him after that, I couldn't shake that image. When I brought it up again, he said he never told me that, and I realized it was a dream. When I told this to a middle school friend, he said he did the same thing during his high school trip, but he never told me about it.

A friend from university turned out to be a childhood friend I hadn't seen in over 10 years. I got his number and one day we had a long phone call, which was rare for me.

He was always sickly, but he sounded so energetic and talked about his dreams. He said he wanted to meet up and have a drink now that we were 20. Less than a month later, he passed away...

>>68
That reminds me of Brother Lawrence.

When I was a student, I had a classmate whose parent died and another who got into an accident and became disabled. I realized that even if it's just a coincidence, I shouldn't hold grudges against people.

I ran into a university friend at a service area in another prefecture. Another year, I met the same friend at a big shrine in Kanto during New Year's.

A crazy coincidence I heard about was someone who found a Kinkeshi figure with their name on it at a flea market in the Middle East. They had written their name on it and thrown it away when they were little.

I muttered something in the bathroom, and right after that, a family member came into the changing room muttering the exact same thing.

I bought a ticket to take a bus from Fukuoka to Saga, but my plans changed and I went back home instead.

When I got home, I found out that the bus had been hijacked and several people had been stabbed.

>>76
Neo Mugicha?

Meeting my wife.

When I first held a radio at a work site, I met a tow truck operator. Five years later, I ran into him again in my hometown. He was there for sightseeing.

I was humming "Season in the Sun" by Tube in my head while going to the supermarket, and the same song was playing in the store.

I was able to save my mom's life because I came home from school early one day.