What's the most uncanny coincidence you've ever experienced?

My old work ran a secret Santa once the week before Christmas.

It was a $10 limit in the person I was buying for, I didn't know very well.

I left my buying to the last minute because I just didn't know what to get her.

So I was in town and walking past some shops when lo and behold, I see an old copy of Oliver

Twist in the window of the second-hand bookstore. It just called to me, so I went in and picked it up.

I checked the first page for the cost, and guess what? Ten bucks. Perfect. So, come the day of the

Secret Santa, we were all opening our gifts, some 150 people. Out of the corner of my eye, I see some

people crowding around a woman who's crying. I keep listening, and people are calling out for the

person who has her Santa. I go over and reveal that it was me. The lady I'd bought for was crying

and hugged me. She said 10 years ago her house burned down, along with all of her possessions.

The book that I bought

her was her favourite, and also the exact same edition, so I had the exact same cover she remembered.

Because it was a second-hand book, it was even weathered in the same places she remembered. So it was

as if I'd grabbed the book off her shelf before the fire and delivered it to her 10 years later.

Here in my little town in North West England, there's a good cabb shop from which the lads and I

have ordered for years. We've been there after countless nights out and had them deliver

to our doors, so we know the guys who worked there pretty well. They're mostly Turkish.

Once a few of us got together for a short break in Turkey. Having got off the

plane, we waited in the car park outside for another pal who'd been on a different flight.

As we stood, soaking in the ambience of the new country, none other than the tall guy from

our local kebab shop in the UK walked across the road right in front of us, 2,000 miles from

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