{"id":322,"date":"2011-10-26T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T16:00:12","slug":"addressing-a-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/10\/26\/addressing-a-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing a Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Submitted<\/strong> by reader\u00a0Jeffrey Nuttall<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

In<\/strong> April 2009, a friend was looking for a roommate, and, since I was\u00a0planning to move anyway, I ended up moving in with him. \u00a0As it turned\u00a0out, though, there were some odd coincidences involved with my new\u00a0address.<\/p>\n

First<\/strong> of all, I later found out that my parents had both lived only a\u00a0couple of blocks away from that address before they were married — my\u00a0mother to the northwest, and my father to the southwest. \u00a0I had had no\u00a0idea that my parents had ever lived anywhere near there until after I\u00a0moved there.<\/p>\n

But<\/strong> the coincidence gets better: the street the address is on is\u00a0called Willis, and the nearest cross street to the south is Rayen. \u00a0My\u00a0father’s name is Ray, and his last initial N. — Ray N. \u00a0And my\u00a0father’s middle name? \u00a0Willis.<\/p>\n

[EDITOR: <\/em><\/strong>This one’s both one of the craziest stories I’ve heard, and requires the most effort to find. You have to jumble together and separate out some names, and the rules are a little loose and require some searching. And yet, when you put it all together and see it as a whole the end result is wicked cool. Which is one notch above “crazy cool,” and a couple below “slap-my-ass-and-call-me-mathilda” cool. There’s a whole scale. Trust me.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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