# Numerical coincidence in a grocery receipt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982 "2006-07-02T23:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982/1 "2006-07-02T23:26:36Z")
I was going through my credit card receipts today, when I found this gem. For a grocery receipt dated 6/6/6, the total was $13.66. Quite a coincidence, eh? Just some Stuff I Must Share. (Now before any numerologists put on their tinfoil helmets (in case my food purchase was a sign of the Apocolypse), let me remind you that a proper Faraday cage must _completely_ enclose the object to be protected.) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982/2 "2006-07-02T23:30:55Z")
**DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!** By posting the mystic numbers, you have unlocked the Pandora’s Box of Hell, and Grocery Demons will kill you in your sleep. Me? I need to make a grocery run. Thanks for the reminder. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982/3 "2006-07-02T23:45:31Z")
I was on duty on 9/01/2001. At 8:30 AM, I casually mentioned to my crew, that they shouldn’t have any plans for today, as the date was 9/11. We’ll probably be busy the whole shift. Everyone thought that was funny. ☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹ / ☹☹ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982/4 "2006-07-03T02:23:11Z")
There’s no special significance since it was last week, but I thought that the total for my purchase at the grocery store being $6.66 was mildly odd. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerical-coincidence-in-a-grocery-receipt/362982/5 "2006-07-03T03:34:54Z")
I regularly order a (terrible, really) breakfast at the funky little Cuban socialist cafe in my neighbourhood. An “old-fashioned breakfast” (home-fries, bacon, eggs, and toast) and a large mug of coffee comes to $6.66. The last time I ordered it, the potatoes were moldy. I ought to have known. A far more striking numerical coincidence happened last week. I was printing (by _hand!_ How 14[sup]th[/sup] Century!) labels for the racks for the entire line of fall fashions for the company I work for. After I had finished printing the product code for a particularly skimpy little item, and was trying to recall the colour code, I stopped for a bit, massaged my wrist, and tried to figure out what looked so darned familiar about the number I had just written out. It took a few seconds, and I had the double check the tag on the sample I was copying from to make sure I hadn’t shifted into autopilot for a moment. The first seven digits of the code were exactly the same as my cellphone number (minus the area code.) Weird.