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There's two big 'coincidences' that has happened to me. I'm not a mathematician or probability statistician but sometimes folks naive with those subjects (myself included) may think things that happen to them improbable when in actuality they're quite probable.
However these two things that occurred really flipped me out.
Try to keep it short
1) Had this client I did product photography for on Long Island, NY. Son of client ran a sub-division. Enter a woman friend of the son who worked for a graphics house in manhattan who got the client to design and print a couple catalogs through her firm. I did the photography as well.
About the same time enter's a small area ad agency trying to get my clients business. After woman friend of son's couple of catalog productions she drops out of the picture and I continue photographing whilst small ad agency does the graphic design & printing.
Turned out that ad agency owner went to school (college) with son of clients woman friend (no, that's not the coincidence, lol) I went on to continue doing photography for ad agency owner over many years for other clients of theirs.
Here's the kicker. Around 5 years after this woman friend of clients son is completely out from both our lives, out of the blue...total non-sequitur.... I blurt out to my agency (now a friend) while talking in his office....'ever hear from 'so & so'? Of course his answer was no.
After that I go home. I plop myself in front the tv and start fast flicking through the cable channels. In that instant before next flick, I catch a familiar face..... It's HER.... she's the subject in some cable channel lifestyle show because apparently she was the fashion editor of some magazine.
Now WTF are the odds of all that??? lol
2) The 11:11 thing.
For several years in the mid to late 90's I was noticing that 11:11 thing (google if unfamiliar). I just laughed thinking, ya know, one of them trickster universe synchronicity things that was just on me... solely for my own 'entertainment'.
At the very end of the 90's my web surfing has me looking up paranormal stuff. Its then I come across this Art Bell person. I find the local am radio station that he's on and every now and again, I put a radio by my ear and fall asleep to while his show is on. ( 1am - 5 am)
Finally early one morning after about 6 months of doing this, I suddenly become wide awake at just about 4:30am. I catch a caller in the middle of a conversation to hear...
Caller: "Art, do you know anything about these numbers people keep saying they're always seeing...?
Art Bell: "I don't know what's going on caller but I've been receiving thousands upon thousands of faxes and emails from people all over saying they keep seeing the number 11:11.
Well, let me tell you, I totally FREAKED OUT!! lol
What are the chances in these cases? =8-0
I'm pretty certain ya'll have similar outlandish coincidences!
However these two things that occurred really flipped me out.
Try to keep it short
1) Had this client I did product photography for on Long Island, NY. Son of client ran a sub-division. Enter a woman friend of the son who worked for a graphics house in manhattan who got the client to design and print a couple catalogs through her firm. I did the photography as well.
About the same time enter's a small area ad agency trying to get my clients business. After woman friend of son's couple of catalog productions she drops out of the picture and I continue photographing whilst small ad agency does the graphic design & printing.
Turned out that ad agency owner went to school (college) with son of clients woman friend (no, that's not the coincidence, lol) I went on to continue doing photography for ad agency owner over many years for other clients of theirs.
Here's the kicker. Around 5 years after this woman friend of clients son is completely out from both our lives, out of the blue...total non-sequitur.... I blurt out to my agency (now a friend) while talking in his office....'ever hear from 'so & so'? Of course his answer was no.
After that I go home. I plop myself in front the tv and start fast flicking through the cable channels. In that instant before next flick, I catch a familiar face..... It's HER.... she's the subject in some cable channel lifestyle show because apparently she was the fashion editor of some magazine.
Now WTF are the odds of all that??? lol
2) The 11:11 thing.
For several years in the mid to late 90's I was noticing that 11:11 thing (google if unfamiliar). I just laughed thinking, ya know, one of them trickster universe synchronicity things that was just on me... solely for my own 'entertainment'.
At the very end of the 90's my web surfing has me looking up paranormal stuff. Its then I come across this Art Bell person. I find the local am radio station that he's on and every now and again, I put a radio by my ear and fall asleep to while his show is on. ( 1am - 5 am)
Finally early one morning after about 6 months of doing this, I suddenly become wide awake at just about 4:30am. I catch a caller in the middle of a conversation to hear...
Caller: "Art, do you know anything about these numbers people keep saying they're always seeing...?
Art Bell: "I don't know what's going on caller but I've been receiving thousands upon thousands of faxes and emails from people all over saying they keep seeing the number 11:11.
Well, let me tell you, I totally FREAKED OUT!! lol
What are the chances in these cases? =8-0
I'm pretty certain ya'll have similar outlandish coincidences!
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