Coincidences

Years ago I worked in a travel agents. Every Friday lunchtime we'd go to the local Chinese restaurant. My manager went on a free trip to Hong Kong (we often had freebies in those days) and in the city centre bumped into the owner of our Chinese restaurant who was visiting family. What are the odds....??

My mother and I who at that time, lived in Cornwall, flew out to a wedding in New Zealand, after which we were tourists.
In Rotorua we went to a Maori concert and with about 200 other tourists enjoyed a Maori concert and feast.

At our table was an American couple and the husband told us how he was visiting Canada, Australia, New Zealand and finally UK tracing his scattered ancestors.

His plan, he told us, was to fly to the UK the following week and would go to 'a little place you've never heard of.'
And named the village where we lived.

By the way Lion the film was wonderful, but the book less so !

I was in Sydney and went to a huge bookshop with a friend,with lots of secondhand books etc. I walked down one aisle there were a couple of paperbacks in a pile on one of th e shelves. I picked up the top one and there was a photo of a girl I was at uni with on the front. (Book was about a band she’d sing in).

A few years ago DH and I were in India on holiday. I was chatting to a couple who told me that he had been in my home town a few weeks earlier at a college reunion. I asked him if it had been arranged by R* ***. “Yes“ they said, looking amazed when I said that she was my best friend.

I had a very big coincidence play out right here on gransnet.
I could only really tell with the other person's permission though.

The film is very good indeed.

Coincidences:

Big family trip to France for OH's 60th. We had all bought him a mandolin and smuggled it in the luggage. When we gave it to him he was very pleased, but there was no plectrum, so I cut up an old credit card to make one. Later in the day Son-I-L playing frisbee on beach and suddenly stopped and grubbed around in the sand and pulled out...........a plectrum!!!

Many years ago we went to St Agnes in the Scillies, renting a cottage by the beach which was owned by the adjoining B&B. On the first morning we met outside a couple who lived in the same place as us, and played quartets with my OH! We then discovered that in fact they had booked the cottage too, but the owners then discovered they had double-booked and put them in the B&B!

Not lately, but 5 years ago my daughter was getting married in Victoria BC. We are from a small town in the north, 1000 km north.

Planning the wedding, she picked a marriage commissioner from the phone book, and set up a meeting. When he met them, he paused at her name and asked if she was from Prince Rupert and knew a man with the same last name. In fact it was her long deceased grandfather (my FIL who passed away when my DH was only 9). He had taken a barber apprentice with him many years ago.

When she told me the story, it confirmed to me that someone from above was looking down and approved the wedding!

Wonderful story - I saw the film first and sobbed my heart out. I have since bought the book but not yet read it.

Not lately but after my DHs funeral I had to take my son to Heathrow as he had to fly home as I drove home in tears on the radio was the piece of music (a favourite record of DHs) I’d had played at the funeral the day before.

Not lately, but in 1981 after my eldest D and her H emigrated, I went to our local market where they had a record stall. I'd asked for Natalie Cole's " Miss You Like Crazy " and the assistant grabbed an armful of 7" vinyls to put down on the counter and as she walked from the shelf to the counter one dropped onto the floor-----yes, you guessed, it was the one I'd asked for, so I was more determined that I should have it.

From a heap of records it just flipped out from the bundle. The assistant and I just stared at each other then she said, well it saves me going through this lot. Strange or what ?

No I haven't seen the film yet. I'm still reading the book. Will probably watch afterwards though.

I saw the film and cried.

grannyrebel
Have you seen the film?
If you go onto YouTube there is a video of Saroo Brierly talking about his journey.