That night, my mom notices the return address on the box and freezes. “Isn’t this where we used to live?” Sure enough, same building, same unit. The next day, I casually mention it to my teacher, and she pauses for a second before saying, “Oh—wow.
Sorry you guys had to move out. That must’ve been because of us.” I had no idea I’d randomly ended up in my old home’s new tenant’s classroom. Small world…
kind of awkward, too.
- First day at uni in a new city, I met a great guy. We shared the same dark sense of humor and became pretty instant friends. Months later, my father died suddenly.I went home to my family and missed a lot of uni. After the funeral, I was sitting with my whole extended family when I got a call from my mate. I told him I’d been away because of a death in the family.
He suddenly started asking loads of questions—who had died, if it was my father, what his name was. I was confused and asked him what was going on. It turned out his parents had been at my dad’s funeral.
He was a cousin I didn’t know I had. It was a wonderful moment of connection in a dark time. It felt like something out of a storybook.
- A friend of mine started dating this guy we met during a night out. They hit it off right away—total chemistry. Things were going great for a couple of months, super into each other, practically inseparable.Then one afternoon, she’s walking down the street and spots him talking to someone. As she gets closer, her stomach drops—it’s her ex. Not just any ex, but the ex.
The one who completely broke her heart years ago. She runs up to them, totally confused, and asks, “Wait… how do you two know each other?” They look at her, then at each other, and go, “Uh…
we’re brothers.” She was not ready for that plot twist.
- When I was 3 or 4 years old, my dad and I were in a barber shop. An elderly man, a friend of the family, was waiting for a haircut, and he and I were talking. I think I was sitting in his lap.
He had a big nose with a wart on it. I suddenly said, “You got a nose like a witch!” My dad says he could have crawled under a chair, but the old man just laughed and said, “I guess I do, don’t I?”
