The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCoincidence, weird, strange, or smething else
I was reading something online that asked people to tell their story of an unusual coincidence or something that happened that you cannot explain. For example, one person wrote about seeing their doppelganger and another person who was a teacher who had a student that moved and the teacher didn't know which state. The next year, the teacher moved to another state and on the first day of class that student walked into her classroom.
My strange incident happened in the early 80s. I was stationed at George AFB, just outside Victorville, Ca., and on long weekends I'd visit my parents and siblings in the San Diego area. Before leaving on a Friday afternoon, I got a call from my married sister asking me to bring some record albums down for her to tape.I had over 200 albums so I went through a bunch of them and chose 10 of them. When I got to my sister's house that night, as she was going through the albums I brought she stopped and her eyes grew wide and a surprised look came on her face. She told me while she was shopping that afternoon, she was looking through a section of old albums and she was debating on buying an album and decided not to. That album she was considering buying was one of the albums I had brought.
Coincidence, weird, or strange but I can't explain how out of 200 albums I picked the one she was considering buying that afternoon.

SheltieLover
(66,761 posts)
rickford66
(5,828 posts)I needed a chisel to bust up a large boulder. While at a stop sign, I saw something on the ground. I opened the door, reached down and found the perfect chisel.
There was a big puddle in front of our rural mail box and I wished for something to fill it in. A couple days later a couple bags of concrete were next to my mailbox. Must have fallen off a truck.
I was going to buy a dog run, one of those cables and pulleys you run from tree to tree. When I went to get my mail, there on the ground was a brand new dog run. Never opened.
My wife passed away in 2017 and a year or so before bought a few little acrylic pyramids. She was Earthy-Spiritual, not overly religious. She told me to keep them around the house once she was gone. In 2020, at the beginning of shelter in place, I needed something at Lowe's but didn't want to be near others. So I parked in an empty lot at neighboring business that was closed. As I opened my door I saw something on the ground. I reached down and picked up an almost duplicate of one of those pyramids my wife left me. A little rough, since it had been run over a few times.
I have a couple other things, but this is enough.