Here are my three weirdest coincidences:

3. I was reading Donald Westlake's "Trust Me on This", which contains this passage: "She looked to her right, to the dim red glow of numbers from the clock-radio provided by the inn and bolted to the bedside table: 3:07 A.M." I immediately looked at the red glowing numbers on the clock-radio next to my bed -- it was 3:07 A.M.

2. I was with a friend in line at a Wendy's in Berkeley, California in 1988. Suddenly the guy ahead of us in line turned around and asked me if I was from South Carolina. I said yes. He gave me his name and said "I was your sixth grade teacher!" This despite the fact that he hadn't seen me in ten years, it was the other side of the continent, and I looked pretty different (e.g. had a mustache). And the weirdest part: what had my friend and I been discussing while we were standing in line and the guy interrupted? Coincidences.

1. This one takes the cake. Back in sixth grade, there was a girl I considered my "archenemy". For some reason, she wanted my phone number for a list she was making, and I didn't want to give it to her. She wouldn't leave me alone, so finally I decided to just make up a number. I changed the first three digits to another extension used in our town, and swapped the order of two of the last four numbers. "That's not your phone number", she said. I asked her what she meant. "That's MY phone number!" I looked it up later -- it was.

-- Trip