Your Biggest "Coincidence"
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Visiting my in-laws in Tucson, AZ, met their neighbor who had grown up in the house where we lived.
Went to SeaWorld a few years ago and was wearing ISU gear. A worker saw that and started talking to me about the Midwest and turned out he grew up in the same town, on the same street as me. He was probably 15-20 years older than me so I didn’t know him at all, but I confirmed with my parents that his parents still lived there. It’s a town of 3400.
Maybe not the biggest coincidence, but about a month ago we were in the middle of nowhere Idaho on our way to Grand Teton National Park. We stopped at a cafe in a town that has to have a population of under 1000 people.
After getting our lunch served we heard a big crash behind us and our waitress collapsed and was having a fulll grand mal seizure (I didn’t know what was going on at the time.
My wife was an ICU nurse prior to moving into healthcare management and was able to immediately know what to do and offered aid for the 40 minutes it took an ambulance to arrive from the nearest hospital.
The waitress had never had a seizure in her life apparently. My wife says she almost certainly would have been ok without someone giving aid, but I still think that’s quite fortunate a qualified medical professional was right there.
After getting our lunch served we heard a big crash behind us and our waitress collapsed and was having a fulll grand mal seizure (I didn’t know what was going on at the time.
My wife was an ICU nurse prior to moving into healthcare management and was able to immediately know what to do and offered aid for the 40 minutes it took an ambulance to arrive from the nearest hospital.
The waitress had never had a seizure in her life apparently. My wife says she almost certainly would have been ok without someone giving aid, but I still think that’s quite fortunate a qualified medical professional was right there.
So hard to read this without tears burning my eyes. I may not be a lot of things, but my love of our great companion is one that defines me. My B-I-L just texted, his sweet girl Pearl just passed. Good little rescue pup.
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Losing our dog was the hardest thing I've dealt with, honestly. I had not lost a parent or pet to that point in my life. It all happened so fast it was honestly just a shock. We went from "he's acting funny" at 7am to "its time to say goodbye" at noon on the same day. That was awful to experience. With time to reflect on it, he gave us a blessing in some ways. There was no hard decision to make for us. The outcome was determined and there was no debate. It's weird to say, but that made it easier in its own way.
I cried on and off for three days. It's funny how the mind works though. About a week after he was gone, I had a dream I was taking him for a walk in a huge green pasture. I unhitched his harness and he jogged ahead of me to the top of a hill and I couldn't see the other side. He paused, looked back at me, and then jogged over the hill out of sight.
I know it was just my subconscious helping me grieve, but that made me feel so much better.
Not really a coincidence. More of an "oh WOW" moment.
Invited a group of neighbors over a couple years ago. Included were a couple sisters that live a few doors down.
We were all in the basement and the one more meek of the ladies sees all the records and music paraphernalia on the walls. It prompts her to volunteer, "My nephew is in a punk band."
I'm thinking, "That's nice, probably some local group playing bars around the area..." I asked what the name of the group was, not expecting to know who they were. She says, "X." I pause and say, "...From Los Angeles?" "Yes, that's the group, have you heard of them?"
Her nephew is Billy Zoom, the guitarist. I looked it up to be sure, and sure enough, he was born in Savannah IL - and that's where these sisters are from.
Invited a group of neighbors over a couple years ago. Included were a couple sisters that live a few doors down.
We were all in the basement and the one more meek of the ladies sees all the records and music paraphernalia on the walls. It prompts her to volunteer, "My nephew is in a punk band."
I'm thinking, "That's nice, probably some local group playing bars around the area..." I asked what the name of the group was, not expecting to know who they were. She says, "X." I pause and say, "...From Los Angeles?" "Yes, that's the group, have you heard of them?"
Her nephew is Billy Zoom, the guitarist. I looked it up to be sure, and sure enough, he was born in Savannah IL - and that's where these sisters are from.
When you said a couple of sisters, my mind went in a completely different direction. Straight to the gutter
In college, I spent the summers working in the seed fields. One day for lunch, I’m waiting to turn off the highway into the seed plant when I see a semi flying up behind me with its tires smoking. Lucky for me he took the ditch because he would have pushed me into oncoming traffic. The driver wasn’t badly hurt. I was pretty shook up and they sent me home for the rest of the afternoon.
The next day, I’m walking one of my fields that I went to every day and notice a small section of corn is lying flat in a circular pattern. I tell the office about it, and they said there was a small tornado in the area yesterday.
I’m not a religious guy, but I spent sometime wondering if there really is a God, and if I needed to make some different life choices.
The next day, I’m walking one of my fields that I went to every day and notice a small section of corn is lying flat in a circular pattern. I tell the office about it, and they said there was a small tornado in the area yesterday.
I’m not a religious guy, but I spent sometime wondering if there really is a God, and if I needed to make some different life choices.
Rescues are the best. We have 3 (2 cats and a dog) and they are just so loving and loyal and "happy to be here". Don't buy pets, go rescue a rescue!
Do the hawk guys always yell "GO HAWKS" if you are wearing Cyclone gear? I swear that is bred into them.
One of my current neighbors' daughter's husband is the son of a woman my mom worked with for many years. What makes it coincidence is none of us are from the DM area. The husband's family was from a town over from ours growing up. His town had no HS so he could have gone to mine or to a town the other way, which he did. Our moms worked together for close to 2 decades. The neighbors had actually lived out east and worked with a HS classmate of mine for a time as well. One random weekend my parents were visiting at the same time as this guy's parents were visiting the neighbors and both were leaving the houses at the same time and caught up in the street.
Another one involves my former boss in HS. He moved to the DM area and was neighbors with the family of a guy I ended up having classes with for two years. Said guy also worked at Olive Garden in WDM while I worked at Mondo's, just a block or two away. We both lived in the same apartment complex, too.
That same former boss works in real estate and ended up working with a realtor that has been a family friend of my wife's family for years. Their office is located in the former Mondo's location. In addition to that, I work just a couple of buildings over from the old Mondo's location. In fact, of the 25 years I've been in the DM area, all but 3 of them have been working on Westown Parkway even though that represents two different jobs in 3 different building.
Another one involves my former boss in HS. He moved to the DM area and was neighbors with the family of a guy I ended up having classes with for two years. Said guy also worked at Olive Garden in WDM while I worked at Mondo's, just a block or two away. We both lived in the same apartment complex, too.
That same former boss works in real estate and ended up working with a realtor that has been a family friend of my wife's family for years. Their office is located in the former Mondo's location. In addition to that, I work just a couple of buildings over from the old Mondo's location. In fact, of the 25 years I've been in the DM area, all but 3 of them have been working on Westown Parkway even though that represents two different jobs in 3 different building.
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These ladies are senior to me. And I'm 70.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
