Good one at work today
Bloke I work with has been in hospital with bad neck
I asked him today "how's the Gregory?"
He says "huh?!"
I says "Gregory! Gregory Peck! Neck! Rhyming slang!"
Anyhow
I goes back to my desk two mins later
I goes to put some letters in envelopes
The 2nd letter I come to was addressed to...
Mr G Peck
Bugger me
Many moons ago when I was about 14, I had a humungatarian row with my best friend. In anger I said that I was going to get gypsys to put a curse on her. I said they would get someone to break her nose & stab her in the leg.
Well the very next day, that friend had a row with her sister, who yup broke her nose & stabbed her with a fork. In the knee.... (which is a leg)(for all you non biologists)
How creepy is that.
The family were very rough. Mummy & Daddy prefered that I play with other friends!
My sister's life seems to have been filled with friends and/or boyfriends with the names Michelle and Paul.
As for me, the only thing I can think of is the time, when I was 19/20, and I was travelling down to London on a coach at night, and noticed that there was a complete doppleganger of me sitting at the back. He looked exactly like me, had the same hairstyle as me, and was even wearing the same top as me. I kept looking back at him, with all sorts of Back to the Future-esque scenarios running through my head, until we stopped at Birmingham and he got off to have a smoke, and I noticed that he was about 4 inches shorter than me.
Quote: lofthouse @ November 10 2011, 10:58 PM GMTGood one at work today
Bloke I work with has been in hospital with bad neck
I asked him today "how's the Gregory?"
He says "huh?!"
I says "Gregory! Gregory Peck! Neck! Rhyming slang!"
Anyhow
I goes back to my desk two mins later
I goes to put some letters in envelopes
The 2nd letter I come to was addressed to...
Mr G Peck
Bugger me
Quote: Charley @ November 11 2011, 12:38 AM GMTMany moons ago when I was about 14, I had a humungatarian row with my best friend. In anger I said that I was going to get gypsys to put a curse on her. I said they would get someone to break her nose & stab her in the leg.
Well the very next day, that friend had a row with her sister, who yup broke her nose & stabbed her with a fork. In the knee.... (which is a leg)(for all you non biologists)How creepy is that.
The family were very rough. Mummy & Daddy prefered that I play with other friends!
Quote: catskillz @ November 11 2011, 2:29 AM GMTMy sister's life seems to have been filled with friends and/or boyfriends with the names Michelle and Paul.
As for me, the only thing I can think of is the time, when I was 19/20, and I was travelling down to London on a coach at night, and noticed that there was a complete doppleganger of me sitting at the back. He looked exactly like me, had the same hairstyle as me, and was even wearing the same top as me. I kept looking back at him, with all sorts of Back to the Future-esque scenarios running through my head, until we stopped at Birmingham and he got off to have a smoke, and I noticed that he was about 4 inches shorter than me.
I haven't had anything quite as spooky as that happen but a few odd things have freaked me out. One, I hadn't seen someone for a long time, and when I asked what they had done, it mirrored quite closely what I had done. Sent shivers down my spine. I've also done that thing where I've started humming an old tune I haven't heard in ages and turned on the wireless and there it is. Gasp. And not coincidences, but odd cases of people thinking they'd been out with me, talked to me or whatever when I know they haven't! One was literally 'It was nice bumping into you the other day'. Er, no you didn't, it wasn't me, I haven't seen you for two years, Madam. 
I once dialed a number not to hear it ring but the voice of the person I was ringing on the other end. They had tried to call me at the exact same time. It wasn't about anything particular just both randomly calling each other to have a chat.
I was born on exactly the same day as my partners ex-husband
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 11 2011, 8:15 AM GMTI've also done that thing where I've started humming an old tune I haven't heard in ages and turned on the wireless and there it is.
I think that is quite common. I know it has happened to me more than once.
Me too.
I bought an old book in a charity shop to read on the train, then found the woman next to me on the train reading the same book. That was a bit weird.
Quote: roscoff @ November 11 2011, 11:46 AM GMTI was born on exactly the same day as my partners ex-husband
I think that is quite common. I know it has happened to me more than once.
I know someone who was born on exactly the same day and in the same hospital as their husband. They didn't meet until years later though.
The first girl I asked out died soon after.
Her spirit has been channeling her last words to me; 'go f**k yourself,' through many living souls ever since.
Quote: youngian @ November 11 2011, 12:41 PM GMTThe first girl I asked out died soon after.
Her spirit has been channeling her last words to me; 'go f**k yourself,' through many living souls ever since.
I think this is quite common and has happened to me at least twice.
I went to my first ever England away game just after Euro 96, it was a World Cup qualifier in Sweden and was on a bit of whim with my best friend.
We arrived in Stockholm a bit nieve and expected to be able to book a hotel, unfortunately because of the football match and, I think, another big event, everywhere in Stockholm was booked out, so eventually we had to stay in a small, wooden lodge on a campsite several miles outside of the city.
We arrived there and the accommodation was nice, if a little bit small, so we settled in.
After a while, boredom set in as we were isolated and there wasn't much to do there, so we decided to go and use the communal sauna. As we got in, we noticed about 3 or 4 other guys sat in there but didn't take too much notice until as I sat down a hand reached across, tapped me on the knee and said my name.
Shocked, I looked up and there sat opposite was a guy I'd worked with several years earlier. It turned out that he, and his friends, had done the same thing, decided to go on their first England away trip and ended up only being able to get accommodation at the same campsite.
This sort of thing has happened to me several times in my life, I also ran into the only Finnish person I've ever known at a bus stop at Helsinki Zoo whilst he'd returned home from London to visit his family and I once sat on a tube train opposite one of my best mates when he was supposed to be in Vienna.
I was reading the other day about a couple who have just got married. They first meet when they were 12 years old on holiday and again when they were about 15. They recently meet again and are now married. From the way the article was worded it sounds like they hadn't kept in touch in between meetings.
Quote: roscoff @ November 11 2011, 11:46 AM GMTI was born on exactly the same day as my partners ex-husband
Statistically, you only have to have 23 people together for there to be a greater than 50% chance that two of the people will have the same birthday, so, although, not common it's probably not as unlikely as you may think.
See here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem for a full explanation.
Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 11:47 AM GMTI bought an old book in a charity shop to read on the train, then found the woman next to me on the train reading the same book. That was a bit weird.
What was the book?