Has any one else had a coincidence like this ?

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Originally Posted by Slipdigit

Top notch, Ron. I have another Qs or two for y'all related to this magazine, but I've drug this excellent thread off topic enough as it is, so I'll hush.

What, me worry!

I used to read MAD.

[Ron Goldstein]

At the risk of going off thread (but then again, I'm ALWAYS going off thread !) I'd like to pass on another strange "coincidence" that has happened to me.

Many years ago my wife and I had a lovely week in Stockholm and, in keeping with a tradition we had established over the years, I bought her a gold charm to hang on her bracelet.

The charm, in the shape of the Swedish royal crown, was a particular favourite of my wife and so she chose to hang it on a separate small chain on her wrist.

The short story is that she lost it and was desolate so I wrote to the original jeweller's shop in Stockholm to ask if I could replace it. My letter was returned "address unknown" and so we resigned ourselves to its loss.

Many weeks later, when returning home from a shopping expedition, I had just got out of my car when something caught my eye. It was the charm, still laying on the driveway exactly where it must have fallen off the bracelet and, even more amazingly for a piece of soft gold, was completely unmarked !.

Ah me.... yet another one of life's unsolved mysteries