People Are Sharing Their “One In A Million” Stories, And I'm Equally Delighted And Terrified By The Randomness Of The Universe

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I deliberation we each person a communicative that is astir excessively chaotic to believe. Like the clip erstwhile I was moving astatine a artifact store successful college, and these men wearing suits, sunglasses, and earpieces entered the store and started scoping retired the joint. Very Men successful Black energy, TBH. They approached, and erstwhile I thought they mightiness usage 1 of those weird representation pens connected maine to hitch my encephalon clean, they alternatively said, "A high-profile personage is astir to participate your store, and we request you to get them immoderate they need." HUH???? Well, successful walks Jennifer Lopez, LOL, and I was her idiosyncratic shopper for astir 15 minutes. Honestly, she couldn't person been nicer, she smelled amazing, and champion of all, I've dined retired connected this communicative for the past [redacted] years.

1. "I erstwhile crashed a stranger's wedding due to the fact that I truly liked the Irish set they hired for the reception. It was a beauteous Irish wedding, and we had a blast. Fast guardant precisely 10 years, my member is simply a musician, and I hitched a thrust with him to an Irish euphony festival. And who should beryllium determination but the mates whose wedding I crashed! We talked agelong into the night, and I confessed to the bride that I had ever wanted an Irish husband. She joked that she had an disposable Irish brother-in-law, but helium was passed retired astatine the edifice and astir to determination to Australia. I ne'er met him astatine the wedding."

2. "I caught a foul shot astatine a nonrecreational shot crippled with my armpit portion I was highly drunk. My friends and I were sitting adjacent archetypal basal connected $1 brew night, and I was a fewer deep. A foul shot came flying straight astatine us, lone giving maine capable clip to propulsion my limb retired successful beforehand of maine arsenic a last-ditch effort. The shot deed maine straight successful the wrist, ricocheted off, and past wedged itself successful my armpit. The assemblage astir maine legit applauded erstwhile I stood up holding the ball. My wrist wounded similar a bitch for the remainder of the day, though, and I had shot stitches embedded into my tegument for a mates of days."

—u/Yo_CSPANraps

3. "When I was 10 years old, I was truly into astronomy. I lived successful the mediate of obscurity successful bluish Idaho. There was a large tract by my house, and during meteor showers, I would instrumentality a folding seat retired determination and ticker each night. I'd been retired determination a mates of hours and saw a ton of meteors (it was summer, truthful astir apt the Perseids)."

4. "When I was a teenager, we traveled from Pennsylvania to Tampa to sojourn Busch Gardens. While we were there, we ran into my long-time orthodontist successful the park. He was with a gorgeous pistillate whom helium did not present to me. My braces came disconnected a small early, close aft I got backmost from the trip. In fact, it's astir arsenic if helium didn't privation maine successful the bureau anymore."

—u/BigGrayBeast

5. "I dialed a incorrect fig connected my enactment telephone (right 7 digits, incorrect country code). The fig turned retired to beryllium the location telephone of a manager successful different department. That 1 inactive gives maine chills astatine however improbable it was."

—u/goat_penis_souffle

6. "My ma was deed successful the caput by a falling model AC portion successful our tiny hometown. I unrecorded successful NYC, truthful it's ever chaotic to maine that this happened successful small-town America. (She is OK! The spot absorption institution had to wage for her carnal therapy due to the fact that it was improperly installed. Wild!)"

7. "Someone replied to my Reddit remark 1 day. We started talking. I moved halfway astir the satellite to unrecorded with her."

—u/TheRunnyDentist

8. "I erstwhile thought to myself, 'I haven’t seen the International Space Station successful a while.' I looked up, and determination it was — precisely wherever I gazed."

—u/ZeBurtReynold

9. "I collected Hot Wheels with my dada passim the '90s. When helium told maine helium wanted his store back, I started looking for a spot to merchantability them. I noticed Killer Mike from Run the Jewels posting random photos of '80s Hot Wheels, truthful I sent him a DM connected Instagram. It turned into america talking for a fewer weeks. When Run the Jewels came to my town, we ne'er linked up astir the cars, but helium gave my woman and maine VIP passes, and we kicked it connected his circuit autobus with his woman aft their set. He mightiness beryllium the humblest and kindest idiosyncratic I’ve ever met."

10. "Decades ago, successful the Pacific Northwest, I lived with a friend. We were close, but often did our ain thing. If you cognize PNW, you cognize it has endless amounts of hiking, and I thought it’d beryllium amusive to adjacent my eyes and hike the closest way that I pointed to connected a map. I traveled an hr distant from location by myself, and I ran into my roommate astatine the narrowest portion of the hike! We laughed astir it and asked wherefore we didn’t archer each different wherever we were going erstwhile we near the house. The adjacent month, I did the hike again, aaaand ran into my roommate again. This was earlier iPhones, and you had to people retired a MapQuest route."

—u/UniversOfWashington

11. "I erstwhile watched idiosyncratic rotation a 100 3 times successful a enactment connected a 100-sided die. A literal 1 successful a cardinal chance."

12. "I dated a pistillate I met successful grad schoolhouse successful Northern Virginia for astir a year. It kinda fizzled out, but determination were nary atrocious vibes. About a twelvemonth aft we broke up, I was chaperoning a pupil travel to Costa Rica. We stopped astatine a small cafe adjacent a authorities parkland for lunch, and I heard a acquainted dependable speaking Spanish a fewer tables away. It was the pistillate I dated! It was a chaotic coincidence."

—u/sdega315

13. "I curse to fuck I erstwhile threw a token into an arcade coin slot from similar 10 steps away."

—u/ZenkaiZ

14. "My begetter and I were backpacking successful Belize. We were walking on the formation adjacent immoderate touristy bars and restaurants erstwhile 2 dachshunds scooted implicit to greet us. Their owners were a fewer twelve feet away, calling for them to travel backmost portion laughing. My dada has 2 dachshunds of his own, truthful we followed the dogs backmost to their array and struck up a conversation."

15. "In the aboriginal 2000s, I was reminiscing with my woman astir fashionable songs that radical had seemingly forgotten about. I asked my wife, 'Whatever happened to that song, 'I Can Dream About You' by Dan Hartman? You couldn't spell anyplace without proceeding that opus for a while. I stake you I haven't heard that opus since the precocious '80s.' We got successful our car, and erstwhile the vigor came on, conjecture what opus started playing? My woman and I started laughing incredulously."

—u/TheUnblinkingEye1001

16. "When I donated humor for the archetypal clip successful my beingness a mates of years ago, I was seemingly automatically entered into a drafting to triumph an Xbox Series X and a large surface TV. I didn't cognize I had been entered until I won. I had besides won an Xbox One a fewer years earlier that successful a raffle astatine work."

—u/LogicBalm

17. "When I was 16, I started talking to a miss online successful a chat room. I was successful New Jersey, and she was successful South Carolina. It was during a clip erstwhile it was really easier to message each different pictures than nonstop them online (pre-digital camera), and we did aft immoderate HEAVY flirting. We flirted HARD for a mates of years, but thing ever came up each clip we planned to conscionable up, truthful eventually, we mislaid touch."

18. And finally, "My member got huffy portion playing mini golf, and successful his anger, helium deed the shot arsenic hard arsenic helium could. It rolled, deed the extremity of the course, bounced up, deed a sign, flew backmost towards us, deed a light, bounced disconnected the curve of the light, and bounced up implicit the obstruction for a spread successful one."

—u/dimriver

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