Coincidences

[terenceandphilip]

one day, driving my car I hear a song I like, but don't know what it is. I look up the Radio 2 playlist and find it was Billy Ocean 'Red Light Spells Danger'. This was before downloads, and i was working in inverness at the time, but next time i was home i headed into town to try and find it.

 

First i tried Virgin, then HMV, then FOPP when it was beside Markies. None of them had it.

 

Then it tried 1-Up. There was Billy Oceans Greatest hits and one of the tracks on the back (no.7) was Red Light Spells Danger.

 

Delighted to have finally found it, an old track from the 1970s, seldom given airtime in the last music store in town, I told the guy (it was the owner) about the song when paying for it and looking elsewhere etc. He gave me a funny look and asked particularly which song it was I had been looking for. I told him. He proceeded to pull a small piece of paper from the top pocket of his shirt, saying 'I don't believe it'. There written on the piece of paper was "Billy Ocean Red Light Spells Danger". His mum had phoned him that morning to look for it for her.

 

 

i figure thats a one in a million at least.

[Ke1t]

one day, driving my car I hear a song I like, but don't know what it is. I look up the Radio 2 playlist and find it was Billy Ocean 'Red Light Spells Danger'. This was before downloads, and i was working in inverness at the time, but next time i was home i headed into town to try and find it.

 

First i tried Virgin, then HMV, then FOPP when it was beside Markies. None of them had it.

 

Then it tried 1-Up. There was Billy Oceans Greatest hits and one of the tracks on the back (no.7) was Red Light Spells Danger.

 

Delighted to have finally found it, an old track from the 1970s, seldom given airtime in the last music store in town, I told the guy (it was the owner) about the song when paying for it and looking elsewhere etc. He gave me a funny look and asked particularly which song it was I had been looking for. I told him. He proceeded to pull a small piece of paper from the top pocket of his shirt, saying 'I don't believe it'. There written on the piece of paper was "Billy Ocean Red Light Spells Danger". His mum had phoned him that morning to look for it for her.

 

 

i figure thats a one in a million at least.

 

 

Was walking past a phone box a couple of miles from my old dear's house when it starts ringing. No-one's around, so I pick it up and say, "Hello,"

 

"Hey, Kelt." says the voice on the other end... "Can you get mum for me?"

 

"She's at home." I say, puzzled. "Wait.. is this Kelt's sister?"

 

"Stop messing about and get mum." she says, thinking I'm messing about.

 

Without transcribing the entire confused ensuing conversation, it transpired that my sister thought she'd called my mother's house, but had dialed the number for the phone box (which was in the same dialing area.. ) at precisely the time I happened to be louping past the thing.

 

The odds on that happening must have been astronomical.

[muttondressedaslamb]

My mate's mum's watch stopped at the same time she died.

[Ke1t]

My mate's mum's watch stopped at the same time she died.

 

Not much of a coincidence if it was an Eco-Drive.

[muttondressedaslamb]

Haha No it was just a normal ladies watch lying in her house. An anniversary present, I think there's something quite sweet in that.

[terenceandphilip]

With the original one i did above, it was just spine tingling. I mean there was no assumption this guy would be looking for a record and it happened to be the same one. That would be ridiculous enough given how many tunes there are, but he was looking for a song, had it written down. I was looking for Paul Daniels.

 

 

Kelt, I liked your one above, that's ace.

[Dynamo]

Coincidences happen to me all the time.

Listening to my ipod on shuffle a song I'm thinking about comes on next. Strange.

You ever look at your phone and a message appears literally seconds afterwards?

[Henry]

Kelt's sister?

 

 

PLZ POST PICS.

[King Street Loon]

PLZ POST PICS.

 

I've searched the net and this is what showed up when I googled 'Kelt's sister'

[Pash]

When you think you saw someone you know, but it's not, then the next person you see is the person you thought you saw.

[Dynamo]

constantly

 

take it thats just something to do with the signal for the phone hitting your brain first?

 

 

I like to think I can just predict these things

 

 

 

 

But your suggestion makes more sense.

[phoenix]

.....and then there's the coincidences that never get noticed. Happens all the time because all the time it's happening. At a fundamental level , it's all about the maths. Sooner or later coincidence is bound to happen relative to your location in time and space and everything else that's happenin'.

 

 

The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, such as the behaviour of neutrinos and their interaction with time, and these paranormal phenomena. It is influenced by Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity.

 

 

 

 

The musician Sting was an avid reader of Koestler. Sting named The Police's final studio album Synchronicity as a reference to The Roots of Coincidence. Sting had named The Police's previous album, Ghost in the Machine, after another of Koestler's books.

 

"The Roots of Coincidence" is also the name of a Grammy Award-winning song by Pat Metheny Group, featured on their 1997 album Imaginary Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dandyesque]

one day, driving my car I hear a song I like, but don't know what it is. I look up the Radio 2 playlist and find it was Billy Ocean 'Red Light Spells Danger'. This was before downloads, and i was working in inverness at the time, but next time i was home i headed into town to try and find it.

 

First i tried Virgin, then HMV, then FOPP when it was beside Markies. None of them had it.

 

Then it tried 1-Up. There was Billy Oceans Greatest hits and one of the tracks on the back (no.7) was Red Light Spells Danger.

 

Delighted to have finally found it, an old track from the 1970s, seldom given airtime in the last music store in town, I told the guy (it was the owner) about the song when paying for it and looking elsewhere etc. He gave me a funny look and asked particularly which song it was I had been looking for. I told him. He proceeded to pull a small piece of paper from the top pocket of his shirt, saying 'I don't believe it'. There written on the piece of paper was "Billy Ocean Red Light Spells Danger". His mum had phoned him that morning to look for it for her.

 

 

i figure thats a one in a million at least.

 

I was going to start a thread on this very subject later today - now that's a coincidence!

 

 

 

 

Actually - sorry - it was Lionel Ritchie I was thinking of - as you were.

[Dandyesque]

aaaand thats my next amazon kindle purchase!

 

Didn't realise you had a Kindle, Millertime....

 

[Chrisyboy81]

Didn't realise you had a Kindle, Millertime....

 

Coincidently neither did I.

[hopeisimportant]

I like to think I can just predict these things

 

 

 

 

But your suggestion makes more sense.

 

 

 

Kelt, your story is too amazing to be true. I think you were stalked by your creepy sister.

[Bluto10]

was on a night out once and idea/memory of someone from school popped into my head for no obvious reason.

 

this was some bird at school who was so cool she went out with an older loser who had a nova sr and fcuk all prospect. but he was older and had a car, ergo she was cool.

 

dont think i ever spoke to her once at school.

 

anyway got home that night and had a facebook mates request from her.

 

freaked me out i'll tell you.

[Henry]

It's freaked me out as well; how could anyone want to be mates with you?

[Tenerifered]

was on a night out once and idea/memory of someone from school popped into my head for no obvious reason.

 

this was some bird at school who was so cool she went out with an older loser who had a nova sr and fcuk all prospect. but he was older and had a car, ergo she was cool.

 

dont think i ever spoke to her once at school.

 

anyway got home that night and had a facebook mates request from her.

 

freaked me out i'll tell you.

 

 

Didna take you for a Facebook user Bluto

[Bluto10]

Didna take you for a Facebook user Bluto

 

i'm nae really but have mates who use it.

[The Boofon]

Coincidences happen to me all the time.

Listening to my ipod on shuffle a song I'm thinking about comes on next. Strange.

You ever look at your phone and a message appears literally seconds afterwards?

 

Surely that's just iphone users staring at their phone for 24 hours a day and so bound to happen?

 

 

constantly

 

take it thats just something to do with the signal for the phone hitting your brain first?

 

Yep thought so.

[Henry]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005EMU6JE

 

giving this a wee go!

 

 

sounds like a nice guy.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Collin

[Dynamo]

Surely that's just iphone users staring at their phone for 24 hours a day and so bound to happen?

 

 

 

Yep thought so.

 

 

Maybe.

[phoenix]

 

any other recommendations phoen?

 

 

 

I like Fridays......it's the only day that comes before Saturday , my newspaper has reviews of the new releases and the eagle flies on Fridays.

 

 

Recommended today and out already Millertime - it's on my list of books to read , regardless of format , before I die. It continues my Proust theme for today( in fact , it started it ).

 

 

 

 

Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007. In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul C

[terenceandphilip]

 

View PostMillertime, on 22 November 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:

 

take it thats just something to do with the signal for the phone hitting your brain first?

 

 

 

 

 

Yep thought so.

 

 

 

 

One of the refreshing things about life is that you stumble across the odd person you resonate with.