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Subject: Re: Weirdest Coincidence Ever...
From: Stephen <stephen@mailinator.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:58:55 +0100
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[...] There was a programme on years ago about coincidences. The [weirdest] one I ever heard was about this man who took a day off work to go visit someone in another town. He was walking past a random phone box and the phone rang. So he answered and it was someone from HR at his company. He asked how they knew where he was and that he would be outside this phone box in this other town at exactly that moment. The HR person told him she dialled his personnel number instead of his home phone number by mistake which, [coincidentally], was the same as the phone number of the phone box the man was walking past at the time!

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perhaps unfortunately, but definitely quite interestingly, this isn't the first 'great disappointment' regarding the Rapture..

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