This is called "Synchronicity"-----Meaningful coincidence.
There is a yahoo group that discusses this
"Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr." wrote in message
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Hi Wes

I LOVE hearing of rare incidents like that!

I was talking with an OM one night about 10 years ago, he was out in
the Denver area, I don't remember off hand which band we were on, but
in the background he had a 2 meter rig tuned to his local repeater.
It was quiet, no traffic while I was talking with him at all. Then
suddenly, as plain as day we heard a voice on the repeater come in
about mid sentence of a Triple A towtruck driver talking to a stranded
motorist, as the driver read back the license plate for verification,
it was this fellows own car tags, so we paused our conversation so he
could listen to the call, which must have been intermod of some type.

He was gone for a short while, but when he came back to the radio, he
said, darnest thing, my car is in the garage! It was bugging him to
no end, so he paused again to call Triple A. I hung around for about
a half hour waiting for him and was just ready to call it quits when
he gave me a call. That tags were from an adjoining state, but the
irony of the whole thing was, both registered owners had near
identical names. Not spelled the same, but close enough that they
could be mistaken for each other when spoken orally. Dow Einsteen and
Bo Weinstein or something close to those combinations.

I bumped into him on the same band about 3 months later and he was
still talking about it!

TTUL
Gary

"Radio Man" wrote in message
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This is called "Synchronicity"-----Meaningful coincidence.
There is a yahoo group that discusses this
"Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr." wrote in message
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Hi Wes

I LOVE hearing of rare incidents like that!


Well mine was as follows.....

In the early 1980s I was working as a salesman in a marine instrumentation manufacturer in
South UK and much of our product went to Aberdeen in Scotland about 500 miles North of us,
in the oil exploration days in the North Sea. I spoke to about 50 people up there
regularly (sales) and "knew them" quite well / recognised their voices......

One day I was dialling "X" and got a crossed line - I listened for a few seconds and then
couldn't believe my ears... - it was "Y" talking to "Z", both of whom I knew, and both of
whom were discussing buying something from me (my company) each was in a different
company up there about 5 miles apart.... I broke in and they could hear me too and for a
short while we were all aghast at how tiny those odds must have been.

I rarely get a cross line let alone with anyone I know, let alone with two people I know,
and let alone talking about me !!! It will never happen again..... There's something
slightly spooky about that..

Nick

"Radio Man" verbositized:

This is called "Synchronicity"-----Meaningful coincidence.
There is a yahoo group that discusses this

Hey, thanks Radio Man!

I had never heard that word before.
See, one learns something new everyday.

Over 150 people showed up at a funeral home for my uncles funeral.
Only thing was, my uncle was very much alive.
With a name like ours, you don't see too many duplicates, hi hi.....
So when the Obit appeared in the paper, folks just assumed it was my
uncle and donned their Sunday best and headed off for the funeral
parlor.
He really ENJOYED all of his friends calling him up to express their
condolences and he was the one answering the phone.

TTUL
Gary