weird mystical coincidence? Or am I mad?

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dholliday said:
Warning: this might read like a cool story, bro kind-of-thing.

Just experienced a very weird wtf, and thought I'd share it with yous, as fellow blues I've never met on a subforum called The Ale House may well be the sanest judge of this strange Twilight Zone episode.


So, backstory:

- 2 weeks ago I sent a synthesizer to someone per registered post, and saved the tracking number in my internet history (DHL). This DHL page is the only page I've got with DHL in it. So when I wanna see what's up with the delivery, I just hit "dhl" in my browser and it comes up with that page. Nice n easy. I don't have an account with DHL, you don't need one to track stuff.

- The guy decided he doesn't want the synth and plans to send it back. No problem.

- A few days ago, completely unrelated, I'm on a camera forum talking about gear, and I notice someone posting in the same thread as me shares a user name I've used for...shall we say...more exotic types of forums. It's not an unusual choice for a profile name, so the coincidence is very minor. An equivalent name would be something like "imager". so i'll refer to "imager" for the purpose of this thread.

- yesterday (or day before rather) about 12:45pm i get a call on my doorbell. The postman is delivering stuff for me, and asks me to also take a neighbour's parcels. I happily oblige as this is quite a common thing to do. I don't bother looking at the name or address of the parcel I'm looking after (I just assume it's someone in my block of flats).

- a few hours later I wonder where da fook is my synth and hit "dhl" in my browser. The result says "delivered at 12:45pm". I didn't notice the time (at the time), but I know I didn't get my synth back, so I hit "name" and the website said some bloke called Alex Coolman (name slightly changed for privacy's sake). I assumed this name meant the guy who took the parcel for me (similar to how I took the parcels for the neighbour).

- I pop out to go to the office, and have a quick gander at the names that live in my block of flats...I find no Coolman. I decide to phone DHL later on to find out what-the-indeed-fook.

- at the office during a quiet moment, I manually call up the DHL number of my returning synth (obviously no web history at work, but the DHL number is the same anyway as when I sent it) and it weirdly says the synth is still at the packing station of the recipient city, whereas I distinctly remember on my home computer browser seeing it as being delivered to my address, only signed by this Alex Coolman.

- I decide I'm just being dozy and wait until I get home later.

- so i get home, and again type "dhl" in my browser...yep. It says delivered yesterday at 12:45pm. But now I realise when I click on "name", it doesn't mean the name of who signed to receive it, it means the name of the recipient. A cold chill goes down my back as I see the option to check to see who actually signed for it...it was me.

- what?

- I go to my hallway, and check the parcels I'm keeping for my neighbour (far too small to hold my monster synth, they look like books from Amazon). Yep, the name is Alex Coolman, and he doesn't live in my block of flats, he lives on the same street but about half a mile further down.

- thafook? Obviously a mistake from the postman, such neighbourly keeps should be kept within the same block of flats, or at best the next building...but half a mile down?

- so first, I'm thinking how thafook did that DHL number get into my browser history? there's no way i would have manually typed that in...the parcel's got naff-all to do with me, and it doesn't even say that number on the Amazon box!

- I then google the guy's name to find out his contact details, maybe email him to tell him I have his parcels. the first few results all reveal he lives in the same district as i do, and reveal his web moniker, which he uses for his professional photography. his moniker is..."imager".

- what-da-hangonafrakkin-minute-fook???



so at a loss, i decide to call upon The Ale House to guide me through this foggy storm with your philosophical wisdom. am i being monumentally dozy and have overseen something obvious? or is this really not just a frakked-up coincidence, but also a slightly disturbing how-did-that-dhl-tracking-number-get-in-my-browser? horror tale?


help me obi-alehouse, you're my only hope.
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Freaky dude. Tell me, have you visited this thread? http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/19374-Mysteries?highlight=Mysteries

:lol:
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
Books, Pffft.

Your holding 2 blocks of smack for him, he'll be waiting to see if you get lifted.
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So he came round to pick them up (probably not smack, he seems quite square). He confirmed he was "imager" and was as amazed at the coincidence as I was, and remembered the thread we both partook in (camerageekfans: it was about how entry-level Nikons require you to set older lens's aperture value to their smallest value in order to change it electronically).

This, in a city of over 3 million people, is quite a funny ting.

And my synth? Finally the owner of the little shop is back and has initiated a return...I expect it back later this week!


No more weird pointless stories to tell now...but summing's bound to come up at some point, so will keep you all informed.
 

When you wake up and realise you ARE Alex Coolman can you send that other bloke a message and sort out his problems. Alex is a bit concerned that some other bloke thinks he should be getting his mail, his naughty pics, his pay check, his synthesiser and his Everton stuff..

Glad to help solve your probs, Alex, DH or whoever you are, today :)

(tongue in cheek btw)
 

dholliday said:
So he came round to pick them up (probably not smack, he seems quite square). He confirmed he was "imager" and was as amazed at the coincidence as I was, and remembered the thread we both partook in
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Are you guys going to be friends now? The universe went to great lengths to set you two up.
 
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