My mom knew an albino who was struck by lightning. Can anybody top that for most unlikely thing-or-other?
my uncle was swimming in the ocean and found a dead body…
A falling piece of steel I-beam from a Taco Bell sign neatly knocked a taco out of my hand without so much as grazing me. Destroyed a car after it bounced.
The first time I went to Disneyworld I met someone I knew from Kansas outside the It’s a Small World ride.
My mom knew a lightning bug that was struck by an albino.
Thank you - now I have water all down the front of my shirt and an important business meeting later today…
Grim
Unlikely event? I was a one-in-ten-million baby (or however many spermies there are in your average ejaculation).
Top that!!
;j
Hey, so was I!! What are the odds of two of us being on the same board??
Way back in 1992 I decided to start writing the date and my initials on the dollar I spent for lunch at High School. So I did that for a few day. And then at the end of the week I went to my grandmother’s place to spend the weekend so I could help out with my grandfather who had altzeimers. Anyway when I got there on friday my grandma gave me some money to spend. As I was looking at the money I noticed there in the pack was my dollar from thursday!
It had gone from me, to my school, to the bank and was then withdrawn by my grandmother and then given back to me in a little over 24 hours. Freaky. I stopped after doing it for only 3 days since I figured I never top that.
My grandparents went on a trip along the Silk Road about 12 years ago. Whenever they go on thier expiditions they bring along a bunch of stuff to give away to the locals. My grandmother works at my uncle’s golf course adn takes things that have made thier way to the lost but never found pile. Things like hats, shirts, sunglasses, etc.
In a little town along the Silk Road she gave a Baltimore Orioles cap to a little boy who lived in the town and took a picture with him. They were traveling by train, and the train stopped along the route to give the tourists a chance to see what life was like in the villages, and the villagers a chance to sell stuff to the tourists.
A couple of years ago some friends of hers took the same trip, booked with the same agent and tour company. When they arrived in the village there was a young man wearing a very ratty Baltimore Orioles cap. Her friends struck up a conversation (through a translator), and discovered it was the same boy. He remembered every detail of my grandmother’s visit, down to what she was wearing. Getting the cap was a singular event in his life. They traded him a new cap for the old one, took a picture with the young man, and brought the cap back to my grandparents. It’s in thier house now, hanging on the wall next to the two framed pictures.
My grandfather was fishing in a lake and caught a dead body.
I was hit by a delorean while j-walking at an intersection near my apartment. The freaky thing is I was listening to “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and the news at the time! On a side note the guy driving the car was the spitting image of Price is Right host Bob Barker. Weird, no?
I can beat that.
When I went to Epcot/Disneyworld when I was in grade school, I ran into a classmate of mine. We were both living in Kansas at the time.
On the way back, we ran into each other again getting ice cream cones in a small gas station in Georgia, which wasn’t even on the way home. We had both ordered orange sherbet.
Not quite as astonishing as some, but…
I was going to Greece with my brother in 98 to meet up with some friends from home. When we got to Greece, we were to stay one night in Athens, then board a ferry to Mykonos to meet up with our friends.
When we actually got to Greece, my luggage was lost. I could not leave for the island without it. It took 3 days to find it and return it to me.
Now, by this time, my friends had left Mykonos and were to be in Paros. Every ferry from Athens to Paros was booked, as were hotels. Plus, we had no idea which hotel, much less which town our friends were staying in.
My cousin in Athens worked overtime to find us 2 seats on a ferry to Paros and a single room in a hotel on Paros. It was better then nothing.
When we got to Paros, we asked the hotel manager where the most popular beach on the island was. The next morning, with fingers crossed, we headed to the beach. It was packed and the chances of running into our friends were slim.
At least thats what we thought for about 5 minutes. After only 5 minutes we saw a group of our friends walking by! Then we discovered that our hotel was next to theirs!
Pretty lucky, I think…
What sort of bait was he using?
My past three girlfriends (including my current) have each:
Been blonde
Studied and played the flute
Spoke fluent french
Drove little silver cars
*
Four facts not true of any of my previous girlfriends.
Guestimating chances of 1/5, 1/20, 1/20, 1/5 respectively gives:
1/5[sup]3[/sup] x 1/20[sup]3[/sup] x 1/20[sup]3[/sup] x 1/5[sup]3[/sup], or, 1/1 000 000 000 000 that one in a whole British Billion.
For my own safety I call my current gf “honey”.
*plus a bunch of other peculiar idiosyncracies and coincidences (e.g. call them A, B and C: A has a sister called B, B has a sister called C, C, thankfully, doesn’t have a sister – that’d just mess with my head too much), some of which are not suitable for discussion here.
Last weekend as mrearthpuppy was fishing near the bank off a dock, accidentally his line looped over a branch and the lure was dangling/dancing just on the surface of the lake. As he tried to retreive the line, a bass hit the lure, but did not take it. THEN, as we were laughing at his “limb fishing” technique, that darn bass hit it again and mrearthpuppy actually CAUGHT the fish
that would be retrieve
Before Mr. Butrscotch and I were married, I was living in California and he was living Japan. He was back in the States for a visit and we were at his mom’s place outside Portland, when we tan into a guy who we each knew independently, me from California, Mr. Butrscotch from Japan, who neither of us knew that the other one knew, and who didn’t even know that the two of us knew each other. Definitely small world time.
If only you’d patented that, you could be suing wheresgeorge.com right now for infringement! 