Megan Called

(This coincidence happened around three weeks ago, will put it in its correct spot in a couple of days) 

I was at the river in Warrandite with Milo and Caroline (and their dogs) swimming and jumping off the rocks. I remember thinking that ‘Megan would be really happy if she was here’ and about her dog and hanging out with her. I began missing her for a minute. As we were leaving my phone rang. It was Megan calling to say she’d been thinking about me. Megan doesn’t call me very often at all. Around once every two months.

Coincidence Factor: 2/5 Stars

Two names, One Workplace

I started a new job at an import agency doing something I’ve always wanted to do (Admin, Import). . It’s my first job in half a year and it came up by chance. The office is small and there’s only four employees including me.

There’s The Boss (Dean), Me (Pablo), The Warehouse Manager for Melbourne (Dean) and The Warehouse Manager for Sydney (Pablo).

I’ve never met a Dean before, in 12 years of living in Australia I’ve only ever met one other Pablo.

 Coincidence Factor: 2.5/5 Stars

Efficient!

(Note: This is a coincidence that happenned previous to me beginning this blog, I will be uploading coincidences previous to the blogs beginning in order to build a previous coincidence database. I will post one up for every second day without a coincidence to report, with the date included, after 1 week I will archive these in their correct hierarchy and position)

November 6, 2007:

I started a new job doing administration for an import business. In my role I have to type and retype many templates. ‘Surely there’s a better way..’ I thought, so I introduced macros and hotstrings to my work, cutting down the amount of work and typing I have to do by half. I called my best friend Austin and told him about how ‘Efficient’ I’d made my job. ‘It’s my word of the week!’.

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Walking home from Zoe’s five days later I got a call from Austin, “Pablo! I have the horse for you!”. “What?”, “The Melbourne cup! It’s today! I have the horse for you to bet on, It’s Efficient!” “Huh” “Efficient! It’s your word of the week, there’s a horse named Efficient you have to bet on it! trust me.” “Ok man, I will!..” but I didn’t.

The next morning I woke up to find, “IT’S EFFICIENT!”, on the front page of every newspaper.

Efficient had won the Melborne Cup.

At 28:1 Odds. Surprising even its owner and coach.

On a $20 bet I would have won close to $600. Damn.

Coincidence Rating: 2.5/5 Stars

A man from Argentina

I was randomly looking for free music to download while at work. I followed the first link that came up from searching ‘full albums blog’ into Google, which was ‘Free Albums Galore’. After reading through some of the posts the author recommended downloading music by a band called Billie The Vision & The Dancers. I did and followed this link which took me to a list of their albums.

Their second album was called “The World According to Pablo”! (Pablo is my name by the way!). The first track was called “I’m Pablo”. The third track was called “A man from Argentina”.

A running joke in my house for the last few months has been that I’m from Argentina (I’m actually Mexican).

Coincidence factor: 2.5/5 Stars.