Weird Coincidence

[My Good Babushka]

During a business trip in the 1950s, George D. Bryson registered at The Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, taking room 307. He jokingly asked whether he had any mail and was confused to learn that there was a letter for George D. Bryson, room 307. The room’s occupant on the previous night was also a man named George D. Bryson.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Bryson thought it was merely amusing until Rod Serling's voiceover started...

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. ...

[olddots]

3. once in N.Y.C. in 1970 I asked a stranger for directions

the stranger told me to dig myself and fuck off .Years later I heard that someone else had asked this stranger for directions and was given the same reply .

The Twilight Zone .

[NJCher]

4. OK, now this really is a true story

I had attended a conference on herbs in Dallas, TX about 15 years ago. About five years later, I was walking down the streets of NYC and saw the main presenter. I stopped her and we talked about the conference for a few minutes. She then said, "I've always wanted to find someone in the audience from that conference because I lost my handouts, and I've never been able to replace them."

I said, "Oh, I know exactly where my copy is in my files." So when I returned home, I dropped a copy in the mail to her. And yes, they were exactly where I'd thought they were.

Definitely not as interesting as the OP, but still pretty intriguing.




Cher

[Art_from_Ark]

7. I had a similar coincidence

I was in a graduate program, and my office was across the hall from a classroom. I had just visited Japan that summer, including the northern island of Hokkaido, where I bought a bunch of post cards. I kept the post cards in my office. Anyway, a couple of weeks after I returned, a fellow grad student invited me to an informal lecture that one of his professors from another school was giving, in the classroom across from my office. "I think the lecture is about Japan", he said. Anyway, the professor was talking about his trip to Hokkaido, which I had just visited a couple of weeks previously.

"When I was in Hokkaido, the locals told me that in the winter, the Sea of Okhotsk is full of ice floes", the professor said. "I looked out across that sea and thought, 'No way. That's nearly the same latitude as Seattle'".

When the lecture was over, I went to my office and looked through my post cards, and sure enough, there was a post card showing the ice floes of Hokkaido. I went back to the classroom and handed him the post card.

"Professor, here is the Sea of Okhotsk in winter", I said, smiling.

[NJCher]

8. that is amazing~!

and what a cool thing to be able to do--visit Hokkaido.



Cher

[Bosonic]

5. There's a German P.R. company called "Andreas Lubitz"

http://www.lubitz-pr.de/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html

[Xipe Totec]

6. I recommend the movie "Magnolia"