Lbm Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 So I nipped down to Guildford on Saturday afternoon (March 26th) to go to work. For those of you that don't know, I play in a very famous multi-platinum selling rock and roll band as a bass player. For those of you that do, that was a massive lie and I am of course in a function band mainly playing weddings and parties. The point is...it turns out the name of the Groom was a guy called Henk. I saw this on my info sheet on the way down. I thought, wait a minute, there's a chap on here called Henk. Could it be him? Turns out it wasn't. Actually, it was. Apparently during the speeches, his father-in law mentioned something about the selling the Supra and buying a Prius and my ears pricked up for both reasons. Naturally I waited to the end of our gig, making sure it had gone well before I asked him if it was he, and before revealing my identity. So there we are. One MKIV member working for another one, even though I'd never spoken to him or met him before. I think the whole wedding party enjoyed what we did for them. I guess you'll have to ask Henk himself, but we felt it was a good night. So that's my March coincidence. What have you got? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcAB10 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 So let me get this straight.. He sold his supra and bought a prius??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I was at the UK launch of the Nissan Leaf the other week and got chatting to a bloke who I assumed worked for Nissan. Turned out he was a super-ARDS instructor at Silverstone - and I'm booked in for some instruction with him on the 9th of May. Random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Ha! That's briliant. Was it a good wedding? (you can say if it was rubbish, he probably won't read this) I had a coincidence the other day but I can't remember it, may come back later if I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 So let me get this straight.. He sold his supra and bought a prius??? I know...I know I was at the UK launch of the Nissan Leaf the other week and got chatting to a bloke who I assumed worked for Nissan. Turned out he was a super-ARDS instructor at Silverstone - and I'm booked in for some instruction with him on the 9th of May. Random. Very good Ha! That's briliant. Was it a good wedding? (you can say if it was rubbish, he probably won't read this) I had a coincidence the other day but I can't remember it, may come back later if I remember. It was. They danced like mad things for both sets. i think we played about 2 hours 20 minutes in the end. Oh yeah, Henk hot up and sung the 2nd song with us (Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars). Very cool. Very sweet. And some of it was genuinely in tune too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 It was. They danced like mad things for both sets. i think we played about 2 hours 20 minutes in the end. Oh yeah, Henk hot up and sung the 2nd song with us (Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars). Very cool. Very sweet. And some of it was genuinely in tune too Excellent. Do people often get up and sing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdistc Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Last week, in my job working as an in-house Physiotherapy contractor in a Swiss Bank in London, I treated a girl I went to high school with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 mmmm i have booked a band for my wedding in june 2 Coincidences possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Last week, in my job working as an in-house Physiotherapy contractor in a Swiss Bank in London, I treated a girl I went to high school with. Bloody hell, small world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 My biggest coincidence was once (years ago) when I called my girlfriend on the phone. She answered, but sounded a bit strange. Then she asked how in the hell did I know she was 'there'? Turned out I'd dialled the wrong number and called a phone box in the same village that she and a friend were walking past when it rang. They just thought they'd answer it to see who it was. Quite spooky when it happened! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwarrior Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 My biggest coincidence was once (years ago) when I called my girlfriend on the phone. She answered, but sounded a bit strange. Then she asked how in the hell did I know she was 'there'? Turned out I'd dialled the wrong number and called a phone box in the same village that she and a friend were walking past when it rang. They just thought they'd answer it to see who it was. Quite spooky when it happened! That's uber spooky. Bet she was freaked for weeks. I've just found out a girl who I went to school with and used to hold hands with when I was 8 or 9 and call my girlfriend, lives opposite my Mum and Dad. This doesn't sound all that strange but they live in a completely different area to where I went to school. I am storing my Supra on their drive at the moment while it gets worked on and she came over to say hello, baby in arms and another one on the way (apparently 4 days overdue). Turns out she's married to one of my old school mates brothers. Bit of a blast from the past. Small world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KamaSupra Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I went to a Basingstoke Supra meet where I met Shane / Silversoop a few years ago, he said where he roughly lives in Basingstoke and I realised it was 2 miles from my house. I met him another couple of times at meets and when one meet was coming up a few months later he said he won't be going because his car was in at AFR getting some work done. So I said I'll pick him up and take him to the meet and he gave me his address for picking him up. His address sounded familiar, and when I arrived I realised it was my sisters old house. Shane's family had bought my sisters house off her and he still lives there now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Did she let you hold her hand again, for old times sake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Actually I was going to make up a story about kerb-crawling and picking up a whore who turned out to be an Aunt and we went through with it to avoid embarassment... but then I actually remembered that the night I got turned over in Dartford Town Centre by 5 louts, I had to go tot A&E to get my face stitched up, and afterwards I had a tetanus injection in the buttocks and the A&E Sister who did it was in fact my Auntie Nora, who I knew but rarely saw. No words of recognition were exchanged between us, but even if she didn't recognise my puffy swollen face, she'd have a sheet with my name on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwarrior Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Did she let you hold her hand again, for old times sake? Luckily not, Her hubby's a big bloke.. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 The summer before last a Welsh couple came into the bar and we started chatting. It turned out that although I didn't recognise him he had attended my old school and could recall several sporting occasions that I was involved in. He then went on to introduce his wife who had worked as a techer in the same school and it came to light that she had taught both my sons when they later attended there. Small world eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 We went on holiday to Orlando in the late 80s and whilst queuing up for a ride realised we were stood with our family GP. We also saw the same GP on a family holiday in Wales about 5 years later. I wonder if he was following us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purity14 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I listened to "DOUBLE RAINBOW" on youtube, and the remix was so amazing that I cant get it out of my head. Then I ate in the "Rainbow Inn" a couple of days later, and then after that I saw a double rainbow in real life for the first time ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra-Brett Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I was just about to start a thread on coincidences, and this one appears!!!!!! what a coincidence!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 We went on holiday to Orlando in the late 80s and whilst queuing up for a ride realised we were stood with our family GP. We also saw the same GP on a family holiday in Wales about 5 years later. I wonder if he was following us? Last time I was in Orlando (about 5 year ago) with my family, me, my brother and sister were queuing for "The Hulk" and saw some family friends that we used to know (my Mum used to childmind the two girls when they were young) but hadn't had contact with for years. As we had been queuing for an hour we couldn't leave the line to go say "hi" and didn't see them for the rest of the day. Now, the youngest daughter (just turned 18) drinks in the pub just up the road from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdistc Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Bloody hell, small world! Exactly - but funnily enough, the further away you go from where you're from, the more likely you are to see someone you know. We went on holiday to Orlando in the late 80s and whilst queuing up for a ride realised we were stood with our family GP. We also saw the same GP on a family holiday in Wales about 5 years later. I wonder if he was following us? My family had a similar story - we went on a holiday to the Southern part of Australia (about 2000 km away) in our Toyota Tarago, and kept seeing another Tarago (but different colour) in all the towns we were visiting. Not only that, but we had a booking at a caravan park that was confused with theirs... as they have the same surname, and are from Brisbane also! The phonebook has only about 10 people with exactly the same name, in a city of 2.2 million. Even spookier, my dad recently met the father of this family through some other coincidence (as it turns out they are cousins) and at the time of our trip they were living in the next suburb (about 2 km away). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guigsy Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Not quite so remarkable. Years ago when I was 10 or so we went to Orlando. As you do. Took pictures. As you do. Went to watch the Indiana jones show at universal I think, great! Fast forward 15 years. And with no connection other than luck. I'm married to the daughter of one of the actors in the show. And he is in our holiday snaps of the show. We didn't discover this till we flicked through them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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