I often experience strange coincidences, but if I don’t document them right away, I forget. Well, today I had an incident happen that was really weird, and I wrote it down right away, so I would remember it, and now I’m sharing it. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent, but it goes something like this:
Today at work I was cleaning up a list of almost 400 new names that we are adding to our database. It’s a big job, and I’m almost done, but I’m getting tired, so I think, well, I’ll stop for a moment, take a break. But before I take a break, I’ll take a quick look at the list of who’s just signed up for a seminar. Wait! First, let me mark my place on my list of 400 names. Where am I? Frederick Waddelsworth? Okay.
Now I go to the list of who’s signing up for seminars, and yes, there is a name there. But only one name. One person has chosen this moment to sign up for a seminar. Who is it? You guessed it: Frederick Waddlesworth.
I kid you not. The VERY SAME person whose name I had just stopped at has chosen THIS moment to register for one of our seminars. Thousands of names in our database, thousands of potential customers, and this ONE person is on both lists at the exact same moment.
It wasn’t even like: Oh, Waddlesworth! I remember putting his name in ten minutes ago. No. It was: this is the VERY NEXT name I’m going to work on.
I don’t know about you, but that strikes me as strange. Strange but true….because I’m not making this stuff up. There would be nothing remarkable in making up stuff like this. If I was making this up, it would be like looking at a crazy photo that was clearly photoshopped. No fun in that. But this moment was NOT photoshopped.
As I said, these sorts of things happen to me all the time. When it happens again, I’ll try to make a point to record the incident. If they happen enough, I’ll really have to start to wonder what’s going on.
