I recently joined a gym program and was assigned a trainer and a training partner. First, Kimmie the trainer was a person I had met a few times at some home parties in town and we had a few mutual friends. W we found out that about 23 years ago both of us lived in the same condo complex in Carmel, NY - another state and town!
One day we were all talking about my daughter’​s recent wedding in Mystic, CT. Mystic is a very special place to our family. Both of my parents grew up there and we vacationed near there when I was young and when my children were young in a nearby beach community called Groton Long Point. In fact the wedding party stayed in a rented beach house in Groton Long Point the week before the wedding. Well, my training partner, Randy, said that Mystic is where he grew up! He was familiar with all of our favorite places and was a lifeguard at Groton Long Point for many years, exactly the same years we were there with my children! He went to Fitch H.S. where my parents met back in 1935.

I had parked and locked our company truck in our private parking lot at 6pm. At 7:15pm I was at a local ice cream parlor with my brother and his friend and to my BIG SURPRISE, someone drove our truck right by us while we were waiting in line for our treats.

We called the police and tried to follow the truck but we were too late. Because we knew the whereabouts of the truck and the direction that it was headed the police were able to find it and arrest the culprit. What a loser to steal the truck and drive right by its owner totally by coincidence!

My Aunt, Joy Prizio, went to Italy to visit one of her friends when she was 23. In Italy they ended going to a party where she met her future husband whose name happened to be Peter Prizio. After discovering they were in no way, shape, or form related, they hit it off

My neighbors have been our close family friends for the past ten years. My family consists of three girls. Two of which are named Ali (me) and Hannah. Oddly enough, our neighbors also have girls;​ Ali and Hannah. Both Alis are the same age as well as both the Hannahs. If that'​s not enough of a coincidence, my parents share the same anniversary as theirs!

I'​m from San Diego. On a recent trip to Toronto to celebrate my nephew'​s 6th birthday, I was introduced to some people at the birthday party. One girl I met, originally from Argentina, said she had an aunt, her mother'​s sister, who lived in San Diego. Really, what are the chances I would know her? She said her aunt'​s name and I laughed. I know her very well. In fact, she was recently at my house for dinner. When I told her this and mentioned the name of a mutual friend she also knew, we were both shocked. What a small world! What a coincidink!

Met my husband because of fate-driven coincidence!

My senior year at Brookfield High School (CT) my girlfriends decided to take a tip to Cancun. A trip in which I didn'​t go. While they were there, my friends met a bunch of Army guys and hung out with them the whole time.

A year and a half later this same group of girlfriends decided to take another trip. This trip would be to Myrtle Beach, SC and this time I was not going to miss it! On our long drive from Connecticut to Myrtle we passed a sign on the highway that read "​Fayettev​ille."​ My friends were screaming that the guys they met in Cancun were from there and that they should call them to meet us in Myrtle. That they did and the guys met us there the next day.

Four guys walked in the door that evening and right away I could not keep my eyes off one of them- Ben. Ben, like me was not on the Cancun trip with the everyone else. We clicked right away and have been together since.

Now, five years later, after a cross country long distance relationship (for four years) and 3 deployments (to Iraq, the Philippines and Afghanistan)....I am happily married to my soulmate.

Who would have ever thought that my crazy 18 year old girlfriends on spring break would lead me to the man I would later marry? Life Changing Coincidence...I think so :)

The summer after my senior year of high school I started dating one of my best female friends. It was working out relatively well, but it was clear that I had much stronger feelings for her than she did for me. She broke up with me after a month or so, saying that she didn'​t want to have a boyfriend when she left for college because it would hurt too much to leave me behind. I was upset, but agreed to revert back to being just friends.

Not more than three days later, I found out that she was dating another guy, who I had previously been suspicious of while we were dating. I called her and said some things (some of which I regret) that most assuredly ended our friendship for good.

After having lost both a girlfriend and a best friend in one fell swoop, I left for college at the end of the summer depressed and rueful. I spent the semester wishing I had done things differently and regretting the decisions I had made in the previous months.

By winter break, I was ready to come home. On New Years Eve, I went with my friend Andrew to a huge party in LA, and I met a girl there. We danced, joked, and laughed together pretty much the whole night. As fate would have it, this girl happened to be the ex of the guy that my ex left me for in the beginning of the summer. We connected right away, and after a few weeks we started dating.

It'​s been one year and fifteen days since New Years Eve when I met my girlfriend, and we are still dating (and I heard through the grapevine that my ex and my girlfriend'​s ex had broken up because she cheated on him. Glad I got out of that one early!) We even go to the same school together now, and we have plans to move in together at the end of this school semester. I love her more and more every day, and she loves me too.

This was without a doubt the greatest, most life changing coincidence of my life. Thank you coincidink.com for giving me a venue to share my story!

Last summer I was in the San Diego airport heading back to college. I ran into an old high school teacher and we started talking. She told me she was back in San Diego visiting friends, and that her family had recently moved to Amherst. My face lit up as I told her I go to school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst! My 10th grade high school teacher and I shared two flights together on the way back to the small town of Amherst. What a Coincidink!

In the summer of 2008 some friends and I were staying in a house near Loreto in Baja California. Sitting in the small airport waiting for our plane I looked across the waiting room and saw a tall, blonde kid that looked surprisingly familiar. After a longer look the face became recognizable as Coco Dupont. He has been a friend of mine for about 4 years. He was by himself high fiving and shaking the hands of all the bar tenders and locals, speaking fluent Spanish. It was like he was one of the locals himself. He had taken a bus over 100 miles to go surfing for the weekend and hitched a ride to the airport to go back home. Seeing a familiar face in deep Baja California was as surprising as it was entertaining.