Fate? Coincidence? Kismet? Kermit?
Only some of those words apply to those moments in life when paths collide in the face of apparently insurmountable odds.
One listener has a PM-related coincidence story here.
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Definitely a Kermit moment for your listener ;o).
One from our family: One of my mother's cousins was blinded in the war and, following a stay at St. Dunstan's, married his nurse. The marriage turned out to be very unhappy and abusive (towards him) and eventually broke down. The wife removed the two children of the marriage and severed all contact with her ex husband. He longed to have contact with his daughters, but was never able to track them down again.
One day several years later, having remarried and with his life back on track, he was seated at a bench along the seafront at a town in Devon and fell into conversation with a young woman who sat down beside him. He was, of course, unable to see her, but as the conversation developed they became aware that they were, in fact, father and daughter.
I know this story is not unique, but it is such rare and wonderful events that provide some comfort when other things in life are going wrong.
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I wandered into the kitchen one day last week or the week before, and, as happens with increasing frequency, I forgot what I had gone there for. 'What am I doing?', I asked myself. 'You are listening to the 6 O'clock News on the BBC,' said kindly Harriet Cass.
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Sid that made me laugh out loud. As did a comment from Whisky-Joe yesterday on the Boat Race thread (which I meant to put to Barry Davies but didn't have time) about the going always being soft.
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One of my employees was on holiday in Devon. As he strolled along the sea front, he passed a public 'phone box where the 'phone was ringing. Being naturally curious he picked up the 'phone only to find that the caller at the other end was his brother in Birmingham, who had mis-dialed. It just happened that mistake was the number of the 'phone box in Devon.
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My son was travelling on a train into London with friends when he suddenly felt he had to move from the seat he was on. A moment later a missile thrown from outside shattered the window and landed where he had been sitting.
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I'm now deeply JEALOUS, Eddie - Have I never made you laugh out loud?
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BS 6, I made Eddie laugh out loud when I said I thought an innuendo was an Italian suppository.
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Eddie - glad I made you laugh! Did you get my pix of Heidelberg/Cologne? (Posted 6.12.2008)
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I met somebody today who I had never met before, but we had shaken hands with many of the same people.
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Well I sort-of guffawed Sid, which isn't very ladylike but it was funny!
My coincidence isn't mine but it does involve me. A friend from the village where I was brought up built himself a boat and has travelled around the world getting work as he goes. He was moored in Gibraltar and got into conversation with a woman on the yacht moored alongside. She said she was on a round-the-world trip but in real life she was a vet. At which point he asked 'do you know (Gossipmistress)?' and she said 'Yes - I shared a house with her at University'. True story!
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