Ask Readers: What’s The Strangest Coincidence You’ve Personally Experienced? [30 Responses]

When I was in high school, I got an ear infection (common occurrence for me) and my mom called to make me an appointment. All she’s ever had to do was call and leave my name and they would call back with the soonest possible appointment. But this day we get a call back asking for my birthday because there are two Melissa Short’s in the system. That’s new, and my mom and I laugh it off. I told my friends about it when I got back to school, and the next day one of them has a handmade “book”. In is a bunch of stories written by high schoolers and illustrated by elementary kids. My friend shows me one story specifically. I read it through and get to the name of the writer, Melissa Short! What! This other girl lived in that town when she was in high school, I was elementary age and in a different town 30 miles away at that time. I never met her, but was definitely tripped out that she had the exact same name, was roughly 10 years older, and now had the same doctor that I’ve had my whole life.