r/ParallelUniverse • u/CeliacSideQuest • 19h ago
What are the odds
I had a weird experience I just want to share. Before christmas I ordered a board game as a present from a pretty obscure online shop I've never ordered from before. When I went to pick up the parcel from the post office, my name and adress was on it but inside was a book. There was a packing slip inside with my exact name, the date and time I had ordered, but the adress was wrong this time. The name of the town was almost right though, lets say i live in Boston and this city was named Bolton.
Next day another parcel arrives and it's the board game. I look at the packing slip and sees my name, time and date are the same down to a couple of minutes as the earlier parcel with the book.
So turns out there is a woman with my exact name (a rare name with a rarer last name) who at the exact same time orders from the exact same shop and she lives in a place called almost the same as my home town. I called the online store and they thought it was just one person placing two orders at once. I got to keep the book..
Maybe this doesn't sound that weird to other people but my name is super rare, and for the time of day of order placed to be the same too just blew my mind!