1. This one's a bit self-referential (is that the right word?). I was telling Simon, my new work buddy, about a co-incidence I had last week. I had seen that someone had posted some free tickets to a gig at the Roundhouse in London for a guy named Holger Czukay. I'm always up for a freebie, particularly if it's at the Roundhouse, which is a great venue. Unfortunately I couldn't go and also I had no idea who Keyser Soze, or whoever, was. Later that evening I discovered that he was a co-founder of krautrock band Can when I read his name in a review of an unrelated CD in The Wire - it was literally the first paragraph I read. Simon wasn't that impressed with the co-incidence, and come to think of it, I'm not now either. They always seem weirder when they happen personally and out of the blue. Anyways...
2. I was telling Simon this (in hindsight, un-) interesting story, when I had a heart palpitation. I exclaimed a faint, "Oh" and checked my pulse. He enquired, in his sardonic Brummie brogue, "What's wrong, have you trodden on a frog". I was pretty shocked by his throwaway jocular query. And why? Last night at about 8.30pm whilst walking up the path to water our fledgling vegetable patch I trod on what I thought was, and felt like, a slippery cat poop. Of course it wasn't a poop, it was a frog which, bizarrely and thankfully, hopped off unharmed.
Now, this is the sort of thing that the Lost script writers wove into a 6 season TV series, so whether you find it interesting or not is irrelevant - I've got some killer material here. Now if only I can rope in some "hot" actors and a tropical paradise setting...
2 comments:
Do coincidences cease to be coincidences when you are actively on the look out for them and hence likely to cause events to unfold such that they actually occur?
I know what you mean. Subconsciously I couldn't say that I'm not primed to look for them, but they are never forced. Really, what I don't have is any comparison; any control group or individual to judge against. I don't feel that I instigate the co-incidences and in some cases how could I? How could I have somehow steered a conversation to make someone aske me, "Have you trodden on a frog?" for example? But there's no easy way of knowing if I have an unusual amount of co-incidences or if I just notice them more than normal people ;0)
One thing I have noted over the years is that the time 12:34 crops up on a fairly regular basis for me (but realistically, how many times do I look at digital clocks? 50 times a day maybe? Not that uncommon a time then). So it made me smile to note that your latest blog post, which ends, "I still consider myself pretty significant to all of you" was posted at 12:34pm. Yes, significant, I agree.
Post a Comment