TVCH FORUMS HOME . JOIN . FAN CLUBS . DONATE . CONTACT . CHAT  
 Wikia  Quick Links   TOPICS . TREE-VIEW . SEARCH . HELP! . NEWS . PROFILE
Archive through November 14, 2007

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Oct. 2007 ~ Dec. 2007: Free Expressions: Life's Little Ironies & Bizarre Coincidences: Archive through November 14, 2007 users admin

Author Message
Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Monday, November 12, 2007 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Lately I've been having some really odd experiences that are really ironic & out of the Twilight Zone. I'm sure others have had experiences that have made them go 'huh'? So I've created this thread.

For instance - A couple of months ago, the VERY SAME DAY a bunch of us were let go from a temp assignment because the company had way overestimated how many folks they really needed, that night on TV, well... While channel-flipping, something caught my eye, that stopped me cold. There was some movie on and there was a receptionist sitting at a desk, and the company logo on the wall behind her was the EXACT SAME COMPANY NAME. Until the assignment, I'd never even heard of this obscure company.

Flash forward a few weeks...

At the next temp assignment I get, there's a gal who sings loudly at her desk. My quality control job entails my listening to tapes of calls with a headset on. She sings so loud that I can hear her over the headset, when I point it out to her, she's rude, and by the time she does comply, almost 2 weeks later, I'm suffering from stress, headaches, and other fun symptoms. Anyhow I am now home, pulled off the job by my doctor and resting up on doctors orders, (the job only had about 2 more weeks anyhow.)

End of story? No such luck!

My next door neighbour is an actress. She's lived next door for at least 4 or 5 years. She's usually quiet as a mouse. Since the day I've been home recuperating (last Monday afternoon) she's been singing, I'm guessing she's in rehearsal for a show, and today there's a PIANO accompaniment! I may have to move to DH's computer in the den, as my computer is adjacent to the enclosed solarium/balcony area we share with a flimsy divider and it's not sealed properly and it's like she's in the same room with me. But at least it's pretty music. She told me a long time ago she used to work in musical theatre, which I love.

But for someone who is supposed to be resting quietly, away from noise, who ended up quitting a job due to someone singing and getting on my nerves to the extent it negatively affected my health, well all I have to say is that life just gets more um, interesting, as time goes by... with it's little ironies and bizarre coincidences.

Resortgirl
Member

09-23-2000

Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Resortgirl a private message Print Post    
I'll play... the day after I found out that I didn't get the job I wanted at the real estate office, my nail gal told me a story about my potential employer. (He's Married and has a little 2 year old) He had come out to look at her house and do a market analysis. He sat down at her kitchen table and proceeded to tell her of his undying love and attraction to her. He asked her to go to Vegas with him. He told her that she'd have to keep it quiet because his reputation was very important in the business he's in. She told him to forget it and showed him to the door... He was about to leave when he grabbed her and planted a big wet tongue kiss on her...
She pushed him away and out the door.
Boy, am I glad I didn't get THAT job... yuck!

Now hopefully I don't have the same luck as Mame and my next door neighbor doesn't end up having an affair with him.... LOL!

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
LOL! OMG RG - That guy was a PIG, never mind a wolf! You ARE very lucky, IMHO. Mind you, if he ever tried that on you, I'm sure you'd have kneed him a good one in his short and curlies, and he'd be singing only the high notes!

Biloxibelle
Member

12-21-2001

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 5:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biloxibelle a private message Print Post    
I have things like that happen all the time. Lots of them in dream form. Here is the latest one that really gave me pause.

Not long ago I had a dream that my daughter-in-law, youngest son and grand-daughter walked up to me holding what I thought was a basket of puppies. When I walked closer to them I realized they were not puppies but little tiny pigs. I looked at the tails and commented in my dream, "OMG, those are pigs. How cute, look at the corkscrew tails". That is all I remember of the dream and woke up shortly after so the dream was still on my mind.

Every morning when I get up I watch the local news. Right after the news GMA comes on. More times then not that is when I turn it off and start my day. Before I was able to turn it off there it was in all it's glory, a highlight of the mini pigs from England they were going to feature on the show that morning.

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Belle I just got goosebumps from your story! :-)

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
I have an uncanny way of making the exact opposite of what I speak come true. We're watching the hockey game, and with two minutes left in the game, I'll blurt out, "Wow, we're looking good. He's gonna get a shutout!" Sure enough, with about a minute left, the other team scores. Or when Don is playing a video game... "Watch that you don't fall off-" as he falls. "...that ledge." Or on a Saturday night, "Weird, your brother hasn't called yet...". Two minutes later, the phone rings.

Funny, though, this doesn't work on things I try to make it work on. "Man, I haven't won anything on a lotto ticket in ages..." produces no results.

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I'm like that too, Karen! We're jinxes! LOL

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I have dreams that predict the future all of the time.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Me too Escapee. I even keep a little journal on some of the "way to real" dreams.

Spitfire
Member

07-18-2002

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Cool thread!

I've had a couple of those dreams as well Escapee.

I once dreamt about meeting a friends father whom I had never met. A few days later I was looking through photo's with her and all of a sudden there was this man that I had met in my dreams. It of course was her father. Weird.

My sister was over carving pumpkins the week before halloween. All of a sudden Sam looked at her and asked if she had a baby in her belly. Shocked, she said no. He sorta looked at her funny and went on about his business. Lo and behold she just found out she was preggo. She would have only been newly pregnant and had not yet missed her period.

Supergranny
Member

02-03-2005

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Last week my neighbor for 30 years, and dead for 20 years now, came and visited me in my dreams. I get people who have passed on drop by in my dreams all the time. I got up and told DH that Millie came by for a visit. 2 days later we got word that her husband died. I hope he doesn't come by cause I really don't care for him that much.

Oldtex
Member

03-06-2006

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oldtex a private message Print Post    
I guess this falls under the catagory of Bizarre Coincidences or not...

My Mother's mother-in-law (my Grandmother) died on my Mother's birthday.

My eldest brother's mother-in-law died on his birthday.

I say a special little prayer for my mother-in-law each year on my birthday!

On yeah, I remembered to finally ask this question: A while back, maybe last year, here on the board, you guys has these little coincidences of looking at a clock and the time was 11:11. Was there any special meaning to this? I've had it happen to me at least a dozen times in the past 2 weeks. I'd appreciate any "insight" anyone has to this wierdness. THANKS!

Nyheat
Member

08-09-2006

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 1:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
I was born at 5:55 am on the 5th day of August (granted the 8th month). I often wake up in the night at 4:44 am. Whenever I used to go drinking, no matter what time I went to bed, I would wake up at 10 am on the dot without the alarm.

I have weather dreams, about tornadoes and tsunamis. I had one in Oregon and saw the tornado the next day on the news looking the exact same as in my dream, a black funnel in a yellow field.



Cdbga
Member

10-04-2004

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 6:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
Very happy to see this thread as I have been noticing the same kind of coincidences in my life lately. Can't think of many examples at the moment, of course!

But it always seems like I'll be talking about something and then later that same thing pops up. Or I hear about something for the first time (and seriously, it can be some obscure historical fact) and it'll pop up again within the next day - maybe I'll see it referenced on a TV show or on the radio.

Like a few weeks ago. I was chatting with my friend Ruben, and somewhere in the conversation I made reference to people in Macon loving NuWay food (which he'd never heard of). That evening I was in Macon visiting my grandmother and aunt and we were on our way to dinner. We passed a man standing on the corner waving - this was the night before the mayoral election and he was one of the candidates. So, my grandmother starts telling us how she met him in a store the week before handing out coupons for free NuWay hot dogs. And my aunt says, basically, that people in Macon love their NuWay. (He won in a landslide, too).

So, just that kind of thing. Ooh, another time, I was in my pool talking to my aunt about something...doesn't really matter...and she quoted from a "Friends" episode I'd never seen. So, the next day, I was talking to Ruben about something completely different, but I mentioned my pool, and he quotes the SAME Friend's line.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 7:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
We visited Bigdog's relatives in Illinois this fall. There were five of us in a car going to visit another relative and for some reason Bigdog started talking about having twice in our lives seen a full moon at the horizon and how huge it looks, and he asked if the relatives had ever seen that, and they had not. So two hours later, we are driving home after sunset, and there is this huge moon at the horizon!!! He had no idea it was a full moon that night. Or that we would see it at the horizon. What are the chances? Considering we had only ever seen it twice before in our lives and we are old?

Hukdonreality
Member

09-29-2003

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
<<On yeah, I remembered to finally ask this question: A while back, maybe last year, here on the board, you guys has these little coincidences of looking at a clock and the time was 11:11. Was there any special meaning to this? I've had it happen to me at least a dozen times in the past 2 weeks. I'd appreciate any "insight" anyone has to this wierdness.>>

Oldtex, welcome to the club. Just Google 11:11 and you'll find out that the "insight" you ask for is what you already have! I wish I didn't see it, but I see it nearly every a.m. and p.m., in my car, at home, no matter where. We're special...or so they say!

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
That is something. I see the number 11:11 and one other number all the time. My mother first mentioned that 11:11 number shortly after my dad died. She says it gives her peace to see it. I also see it sometimes, too.

We do have a coincedence that happened to us at Disney World one year. First, I'll start by saying that my dad used to buy us kids souvenirs like pressed pennies.

Well, one year at Disney when Em was around 10, she saw a penny press. We kept buying pressed pennies that day, because the machines have different Disney characters. After a while, I told Em that I was out of coins. She was disappointed. Afterwards, we were walking along, and we started finding pennies on the ground.
It seemed like they were everywhere. Then, I told Em that I didn't have the quarters to press the pennies, and I didn't feel like going to a vender for change. I swear right after that we found on the ground a whole pile of coins. There were quarters, etc.. Em was delighted because she could then make the penny presses. Now normally I turn in money, but this was outside and it would have been impossible to find who it belonged to.
I know it was all coincedental, but we like to think that Em's Papa was there with us that day.

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Wow - incredible stories!

The number 11 is my fave number. I lived in Apt. 11 as a kid, later on I lived at 111 ---- street. (And when I was 11 I went to boarding school for a year, it was the best year of my childhood.) 11's always seem to have significance for me. And of course, I've seen 11:11 on the clock a few times too.

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
I always see 11:11 too, and 12:34. I never really thought about it. I just figured that we notice that we see 11:11, cause it stands out at us more than, say, 8:24. I think it's just a subconscious thing that we notice that we're noticing it, if that makes sense?

Nyheat
Member

08-09-2006

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Not sure if it's the right thread, but the dreams I have are strange..aren't they all!!

For a good year there I had reoccuring dreams that a vampire coven was chasing me through desolate half-bombed out cathedrals and the like. I mean they wouldn't leave me alone!

After a year of these dreams, I finally got a hold of the head vampire and staked him in the heart. It was in the snow so quite vivid. I stopped having the dreams after that.

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Whoa NYH! Now that is eerily amazing!

I like to finish a good dream. If I wake up and go potty in the middle of the night, I can usually pick up where I left off, even if it goes on a wild tangent.

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Love this thread!
wierd things happen quite often and next time I'll make notes so I can share.
I do remember a feeling of impending danger before 9/11 so when that happened I thought that was it. The feeling didn't go away until after my mother died on this day 3 yrs ago.
Now I have a feeling of impending danger but on a higher scale than personal. I have probably made no since at all.

Nyheat
Member

08-09-2006

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Or borderline schizophrenic Mame, but I like your word choice better!

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL Mame. I can echo those thoughts. I've woke up at night during a particularly good dream and wanted to get back to it!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
For some unknown reason I also asked my neighbor, one I barely knew, if she was pregnant (something that came out of my mouth before the brain had a chance to stop it - embarrassing!). She said "no". Two weeks later she called me, and said she didn't know how 'I' knew, when even she didn't. At that point, I told her she was having a girl. She did.

I always know when someone in the family has had an accident, and I live hundreds of miles from most of them.

When I was very young I started having recurring dreams. One in particular came so often that, when my own children were young, I told them the dream and told them each time it had happened again.

My dream had some variance, but was basically me in a car (driving or passenger) driving down the highway over a long man-made berm built out across a body of water until it reached a bridge. The bridge was concrete with just a 'curb' side. As we got on the bridge, the bridge began to crack and break off tipping down into the water. Sometimes we stopped before it, sometimes we teetered on the crack, and sometimes the car fell over it into the water.

One day I was driving to my parent's for the weekend. We took a highway that had a steep embankment off the right side of the highway. There were a lot of trees, but on this particular day (it must have been in the fall or winter when there was no foliage) we all (at the same time) looked through the trees and saw a lake size body of water down there with the exact scene from my dream. I had to pull over. We sat there staring. The road was built up until it reached the bridge that was still broken and tilted down into the water! The dream had been so vivid the children recognized it. I quit having the dream.