" I randomly finish up sit next to the same unknown on three dissimilar flights in two Clarence Shepard Day Jr. — without planning it . "
Recently,u/Brattysirennaskedr/CasualConversation, “What’s your ‘there’s no way this actually happened’ story?” And some of them were so wild, we had to share them with you.
“I randomly ended up sitting next to the same stranger on three different flights in two days — without planning it. We joked that the universe was forcing us to become friends.”
– brattysirenn
“Some years back, I had a job with a non-medical home care company.”
" A lot of the time my slip were either take someone to the appointments they could no longer drive to because of wellness issues , or staying at someone ’s house with their very dependent family member they cared for , while they did something out of their house .
One even I had a four hour shift basically giving a primary health professional a prisonbreak , and I show up at the address , and introduce myself . When the woman who answered the door find out my rather unusual name , she says lento ,
' Where are you from ? '
I told her the name of the town I grew up in , in a different DoS . And she say , ' Were your parents named ( dad ’s name ) and ( mum ’s name ) ? ' I ’m now very illogical , and she excuse . She was my parent ’s neighbour before I was born . She moved away , and lost contact with them after I was a couple weeks one-time . And somehow , over 20 years afterwards , half way across the country , in an entirely dissimilar state , I picked up a undivided switching basically making sure her mother - in - practice of law was okay and dependable while the rest of the mob had a rarified evening out .
( Not give any medical inside information beyond the fact her mother - in - police force could not be left alone , and it would be very hard and stressful to take her to dinner party and a movie with the eternal sleep of the family ) . "
– Alceasummer
“Okay, this is not exactly what you’re asking, because it is the most low-stakes thing ever. But the coincidence just blows my mind. Last year I was on a road trip with my BFF of 40+ years.”
" I require her what band / artist her husband would opt to heed to for an entire twelvemonth if he could only piece one . She articulate definitely Rush . He shout out after , and she asked him , and he said Steely Dan . Which is an ok pick , but they ’ve been married since 2001 , and she had no idea he had any strong intuitive feeling for steely Dan .
Three months later and five state away , I am visit a dissimilar protagonist , who has never met my BFF . I ask her the same question about her husband . She say he ’d pick Rush , no question . He comes back from the bathroom , and she asks him . And he read Steely - fucking - Dan . "
– MerryTexMish
“When I was ten, the chicken pox virus attacked my brain. I had grand mal seizures, spent a week and a half in a coma, and was clinically dead three times. I had to relearn everything: walking, talking, eating, dressing, the names of friends and family… EVERYTHING.”
" I was like a elephantine two - class - old . They told my parents ahead of time on that IF I survived – and that was a fairly big ' if ' – I ’d spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair slobber on a napkin . I go on to take part in advanced position classes . In gamey school , I was a concert band , march band , pep band , and even joined a local orchestra ! I have a borderline genius IQ . "
– abnormal2004
“1969. The Atlanta International Pop Festival. I was a security guard, working the performer’s gate. A limo would pull in, whoever was there would hop on the fender and direct the driver around to the performer’s trailers where they waited for their slot. Here’s the limo. I hop on and away we go.”
" We get to the trailer and I open up the back door . Out stone’s throw Janis Joplin . She hands me this huge joint with an even bigger smiling . I strike it , of course of study , and she invited me in to stop it . I wound up staying there about 30 minute just yakking aside with her , stone out of my calabash .
Nobody ever think that story . BUT … there is a docudrama about Duane Allman calledDuane Allman , Song Of The South . At 1:17:00 , it starts talk about The Allman Brothers play at that festival – their first grown gig . At 1:17:50 , the tv camera pans to the right hand , and there I am in all my 17 - year - onetime resplendence , tire my security measure guard uniform . Just an hour or so before this story happened . "
– TnBluesman
“I traveled a lot as a kid. We moved to a different place almost every couple of years. I made and left a few friends behind in the process. At the birth of my first child, I was in the hospital and my nurse was one of those friends. She was as shocked as I was. We hadn’t seen each other in over 15 years or more.”
– 3more_T
“I almost drowned in a cow dung pit as a five-year-old.”
" Background : My dad want to jump a dairy farm and fowl business after his calling as an army officeholder . We had a huge line of business , with a shallow stream at the far ending – forth from the house . Us kidskin loved to play in it . So the layout roughly was : road house , yard , cowshed , cow dung pit , field , flow . This pit was probably 20 or more foot deep and across . It was used for preparation gas . So cow dung was mixed with water and stream into the pit . It was the eubstance of bar hitter , maybe . But the upper Earth’s crust was ironic because of the sun and air .
On the day , my family was in the yard , and they rent labourers to come and work on the fields . I asked for permit to go along with them and play in the current as they worked . Mum said yes , and I play along them . A few steps in , and we reached the part of the path beyond the cowshed . But the path had a gash in it ( to let water into the field ) which was too self-aggrandizing for five - year - old me to cross .
As the laborer young lady skipped over it , I ask them for avail . I guess they did n’t hear me . I saw them walk out front and desire to conform to . On one side was the field – too deep down for me . On the other side , I saw the crust layer of the cow dung . Not have sex what it was , I recall I could take the air over it and follow the little girl . As I took two step on it , I started sinking . horror-struck , I realised what was happening . I sank down to my chest , and my arms held me in place . I called out to my family for supporter , but they could n’t discover me because the neighbour was running his tractor .
finally , I take in that I need to save myself . I bring off to force myself out and walk over the rest of the Earth’s crust – treading very softly and carefully . I had to do all this without putting more pressing on the crust – so every movement was in dumb motility and extremely careful . I knew that one false move would stop it all . I could n’t afford for the crust to crack . Then I go to my family sitting just a few feet off and told them what happened . They went and looked at the spot where I had nearly swim , and were stunned that I had rescue myself . When I think back , I wonder how I managed that feat and how I remained so calm throughout . "
– Experiments - Lady
“Almost three decades ago, I won a trip to Hollywood. Before leaving, I had a dream that I metPaul RuddandMatt Damonin my hotel. I don’t know why those two guys were together, and why it wasn’t Matt Damon andBen Affleck. Dreams don’t always make sense. Also, I rarely remember dreams upon waking up, but I remembered this dream.”
" On my 2d day in Hollywood , I contract off the elevator on my flooring and there was a guy walking down the hall , and , while I could only see the back of him , I was like ' that looks like Paul Rudd ' . I was a sports fan ofClueless , andOvernight Deliveryhad been on regular cable rotation around that metre . I thought about saying something , but did n’t have the nerve and doubted it was him .
The next morning , I ’m downstairs waiting on the citizenry I was with when out of the lift walks Paul Rudd . I terminate up standing outside and verbalise to him for five or ten minutes while he waited on valet to bring his railroad car – a rental that he ’d already contend to wreck in his two twenty-four hours in LA because he was aNew Yorkguy who did n’t drive much . He was ace gelidity .
I do n’t live where Matt Damon was , I did n’t need . But , just the fact that even half my dream come truthful took this story from ' I satisfy a random role player ' to ' WTF ' . "
– Happiness_architect
“Me and a friend were driving around back country roads in the UK super late at night. We found an area to park up and chat. It’s pitch black outside – we were near lots of farm land so there weren’t any street lights.”
" All of a sudden , we see something moving in the trees – belike just an animal but we both start to get spooked . We were mess with each other , joke that it was a specter and freaking each other out . Then I say , ' welp better call the ghost busters ! ' And he says , ' I ai n’t afraid of no ghost ! '
We plow on the radio to get out and , I kid you not , theGhostbusterssong was play on the radio . The exact line we tune up into was ' I ai n’t afraid of no ghost . ' It was a local wireless station and I have never heard that song on the radio . It was so creepy-crawly . "
– VanessaCardui93
H/T tou/Brattysirennandr/CasualConversationfor having the discussion!
