Weirdest coincidences

I get completely psyched and entranced by chances of fate. Maybe it gives me a sense of purpose, sort of my mental free version of the Celestine Prophecies (which I'm pretending to reference since I only made it in about 2 chapters before tossing it).

What got me thinking about this today was my friend from Spanish class. I noticed she signed a letter to me as "Britt" and I mentioned, "you know, I always shorten your name to just B..."

She said, "well people do call me that, but my dad's nickname for me is Beezer."

STOP IT!! I shrieked in the middle of class, that was MY dad's nickname for me! What are the odds, y'know?

I remember reading once about Anthony Hopkins agreeing to star in a movie based upon a book (name fails me). He tried to find the book in order to read it (duh), but could not find it anywhere. He went to a train station, sat down and next to him was...(da-da-daaaaa!) that very book. Later, on the set of the film, he met the author. The author mentioned that he had lent a friend of his a copy of his book, that was a great loss b/c he had written notes/corrections inside the novel. That friend had lost the book about two years prior. Guess what...this was the VERY book Anthony Hopkins had found. (C'mon, you had to see that coming).

My best story is this: one night I was playing Trivial Pursuit with a (now ex) boyfriend. Mind you, I had not left the room at any time, and he could not see the card, so this was not a trick. As I picked up the card, before I read it, he jokingly said "The answer is two" (this is not so weird, my family has a theory that the answer to almost any sports question to the original Genus game is "Ty Cobb"...seriously, give it a shot ;) ) As I read the question, I laughed b/c it was indeed a question that asked for a number. Something about how many days JFK had done something or other.

I flipped the card over, and damned if that answer wasn't "2".

My boyfriend got so spooked he crabwalked backwards into the corner.

Anywho...I wish there were a website of just weird coincidences. I think the Book of Lists (god I loved that book) had a list like that. However, it was merely a small list...dwarfed in fact by the list of weird objects that have fallen from the sky.

There must be some amazing stories out there.