Coincidences
A comedy article
by Squeamish 38,986 14 02/25/2002 11:08 AM 295 views
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There was an article in my local paper about coincidences today.
What's the strangest coincidence you've ever had?
Mine's not mine personally, but it happened to my grandfather.
He was born in West virginia (I believe, I know it was somewhere in the Eastern US) but at age 4 his parents got in a fight and his father stormed out the door and never came back. He, his mother, his brother and his sister moved to Oklahoma where they grew up dirt poor and he grew up hating his father for leaving him and his family in that situation.
About 70 years later he was near his hometown for some reason (he had not gone back there to look for his father or anything) when he happened to pick up a newspaper and read a story about a body that had been found in a well.
The body turned out to be his father who had been murdered that night in (I believe) 1921. He hadn't left his family, he had been killed while returning to them.
My grandfather just happened to be in that area and just happened to pick up a newspaper that had that article in it and just happened to read that article.
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Professor Nutbutter 181,255 35
02/25/2002 12:59 PM
One time I saw a stain on a building that looked like The Virgin Mary.
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Alienyst 2,371 12
02/25/2002 01:38 PM
I had a stain on the front of my pants that looked like that.
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+18Chickens 286,208 61
02/25/2002 03:21 PM
My wife and I have the following in common:
1. Ancestors from the same county in Scotland (thus the same clan)
2. Grandparents buried in the same cemetary in a city where neither of us have lived.
3. My father and her mother went to the same highschool 10 years apart.
4. We grew up 200 yards apart, but never met each other.
5. We sledded on the same hill everytime it snowed during high school.
6. When I quit my first job at age 16, she applied and got the job.
7. We didn't meet till we were in our 20's. (in jail </joke>)
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Chaldron Urkel Hoodspinster, CPA 1,560 13
02/25/2002 03:29 PM
The only coincidence in my family is that both of my grandmothers, who grew up on separate continents, and had no knowledge of each other before my parents were married, both have the SAME MIDDLE NAMES!!!!!!!11
I know, I know. It's eery.
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piglet 104 11
02/25/2002 03:33 PM
especially when that middle name is something common, like Mary.
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Merkin 10,008 13
02/25/2002 03:35 PM
I once had a secretary whose last name was Kennedy, but was boning an intern whose last name was Lincoln.
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The Dirty Vicar 17,446 13
02/25/2002 03:36 PM
Once, I found a set of car keys that just happened to be the set I was looking for. And they worked!
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Chaldron Urkel Hoodspinster, CPA 1,560 13
02/25/2002 03:38 PM
Well, the middle name was Lydia.
Not especially common, but not not especially uncommon either.
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Squeamish 38,986 14
02/25/2002 04:06 PM
Lydia is the 243rd most common name for a female in the U.S.
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Squeamish 38,986 14
02/25/2002 05:30 PM
That's "Colonel Useless Information," now.
I got promoted.
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Sexhead Maryam Peron Madrid Descamisados 12,287 12
02/25/2002 06:58 PM
My dad grew up on Buckeye Drive in Lakeview, OH.
My mom grew up on Buckeye Road in Glen Cove, NY.
Off of Buckeye Drive (in Ohio) was a street called Hawthorne Street.
Hawthorne Street is the name of the street on which my parents bought their first house, in New Bedford, MA.
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aushie 5,580 13
02/25/2002 07:10 PM
One time I was supposed to meet my dad and brothers for a picnic at the dam. I wasn't sure how to get there, but I decided to drive as far as I could and then ask directions when I got to roughly the right area.
When I got to where I was going to stop to ask directions, I saw my dad's truck with both of my brothers in the back of it (yes, I was in Arkansas).
I thought, "cool, I'll just follow them there."
So I followed Dad's truck all the way to the damsite, then looked off to my left.
On my left, at that point, was my Dad and my brothers, sitting at a picnic table.
Since we were in a park area, the truck in front was going slow enough so that I could see the people in the back more clearly. They weren't my brothers (obviously).
But this random truck led me right to where I wanted to be.
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Only 97% as Feeble 32,400 15
02/25/2002 07:24 PM
My wife and I, when we met, both lived on the same street, but 16 miles apart.
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Mexican Charlie 1,094 12
02/25/2002 09:26 PM
Sometimes when I take a really big poop, I wipe, then get up and look back, and THERE'S NOTHING THERE!
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Sexhead Maryam Peron Madrid Descamisados 12,287 12
02/25/2002 09:33 PM
There was this one time I was riding the T, and these wicked obnoxious frat boy-types were sitting near my friends and I. Now, I am the only person I know who can be loud and obnoxious in public places, so these guys were pissing me off. I could tell they were pissing everyone else off, too, with their stupid stories about kegs they drank and girls they frosted, and other stupid college exploits. So, I turn to my friend and say, loud enough for the obnoxious ones to hear, "And one time, at college, I stuck a beer bottle up my ass!" And they shut up.
They must have seen American Pie, too.
Isn't that a weird coincidence?
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Candie Kohrne Signora Con i Gatti 8,640 15
02/26/2002 02:56 AM
The only coincidence I can think of is this. Through classmates.com I located and emailed my best friend from senior year of high school. We graduated in 1984, and I hand't seen her since 1991. She called me back and told me where she's living now.
Three block from me.
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Chouggy, Thumb Boy 5,183 13
02/26/2002 08:03 PM
My Dad lived in a town just off of Main Street. My Mom, before meeting my Dad, lived also in a town off of Main Street.
They met in a town with a Main Street and then eventually married in a chapel on Main Street. They then moved to our town where I was born in a hospital, just off of MAIN STREET. AND NOW, I LIVE IN A TOWN WITH A MAIN STREET!!!!!! .......
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Only 97% as Feeble 32,400 15
02/26/2002 08:09 PM
And the main thing you're trying to tell me is?
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Mexican Charlie 1,094 12
02/26/2002 08:11 PM
That totally means you're gay chouggy.
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Chouggy, Thumb Boy 5,183 13
02/27/2002 02:30 AM
Sarcasm
*whoossshhh*
*over everyone's head*
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HisBoyElroy 10,621 13
02/27/2002 03:01 PM
no, i get it. it just wasn't funny.
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Only 97% as Feeble 32,400 15
02/27/2002 08:40 PM
Oh dear, I should have said "main thing".
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Bean 8,503 19
06/04/2002 09:50 PM
Nothing really as far as my family goes. I do have a friend whose life almost mirrors mine. We both got married to the wrong guy at approximately the same time (knowing it was the wrong guy). Then got rid of the bums in about the same time frame, then married the right guys within a month of each other (all that before we met), and we share a birthday. Not exciting, I know.
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