Improbable Doesn’t Mean Impossible: 35 Unlikely Events People Experienced

OP was extremely lucky. Most cats won't rehire a failed soft can-opener. The cat must have decided that it was too much trouble to start training a new one from scratch. Our soft can-opener is only just barely adequate, but it's so difficult training a new one!

Damn ninjas and their onions!

My sister's first cat was from a litter a stray who hung around my best friend's house had. She was tossing up between two, an all black one and a black and a tortoiseshell. She went for the all black one, which of course she called Salem. My stepdad got a tortoiseshell cat a few months later from the RSPCA. Turns out it was found in the same area as my best friend's house a few months before. We couldn't know 100% if it was the same cat, but were pretty sure as the/y looked so alike and seemed to recognise each other.

That's amazing!

The cat distribution system deemed you worthy again

Just makes you wonder how often you run into the same people without even realizing it, because they're not very distinctive.

It's a sign that you guys must become friends. lol

After high school, I ended up living on the opposite coast. 20 years later, I'm introduced to the new guy at work, who is my age. From the same state, "oh, do you know this town? My high school was there". And he said, "No way! That was my high school!" Turns out we knew a lot of the same people, even went to some of the same parties, but never hung out. The other coworkers were confused lol. "Wait, you just met....do you know each other?" Tldr: met a classmate 20 years later on the other side of the continent when he was the new hire at my workplace.

Reminds me of a visit to Cyprus some years ago with my parents. We had a hire car and went to Nicosia for the day, but my dad didn't fancy trying to find somewhere to park in the city centre, so we pulled off onto a side road, parked up and walked in. I duly noted the road name in both Greek and English. When we were done, we found a taxi rank and asked one of them to take us to the address I had written down. One driver shows my paper to another and he says "you park under my tree?" and we just shrugged, and said yes, "we parked under a tree". Another driver takes us to the address and when we get out, he tells us that we parked outside the other driver's house, and that was indeed his tree!

I went to Disney World with a friend to escape a stalker in my town. Bumped into him right the f**k at the entrance to Disney. We left and went to Sea World!

Yup... visiting a friend a 5 hour drive away, strange town. I stopped in front of a realty office to call and find out where they lived. The guy said look up.. he was standing in the road in front of me, right at the house. I was already there. It was great.

Feels like that one running gag from Phineas and Ferb with the farmer and his wife where his wife would scold him for starting something but not having the items he needed for it. For example: spending their entire life savings on a bunny farm but forgot to buy any bunnies. Then some bunnies come down from the sky due to one of the plot points involving Agent P and Doofenshmirtz.

They are called bales not bricks.

Wheatabix!

"AND I JUST WANT A BILLION DOLLARS!"-Chandler Bing

You want straw, not hay. Hay bales are by far filled with more hay and weed seeds than straw bales. Take it from a farm wife.

Wonderful. You are so valued in that work.

My son was born at 24 weeks and we were in the NICU for 4 months. Our favorite nurse was also a 27 week preemie who had been born at that hospital 30 years prior. Her family experienced the exact same thing as OP"s with the doctors telling her parents she wouldn't live or wouldn't be a productive, healthy member of society, etc. She was the most encouraging wonderful nurse we could have possibly had. She'd always let me know to never give up. My son is 7 and perfectly healthy..

My "cousin" (might as well be, our two families - of 27 children! - were raised together) should be dead. No exaggeration here; should have been stillborn, then dead within hours, then days, then a week, 3 mths, 6 mths, 12, 36, then 5 yrs, 10, 20. Multiple medical articles and studies about her. She now would be in her early 60s and, as far as I know, still going and still happy-go-lucky.

real, was almost the poster child for the hospital before my sister died because of how low the chances i was okay were

Your middle name is "Miracle"? :)

BP made a mix-up AGAIN. That's a fighter jet you Muppets, not a private jet.

Wow can you imagine if they had been able to know as an 8 year old that someday they would be flying that exact jet :)

Fascinating

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Sometimes angels act in mysterious ways, doubt the virus caused the sepsis too but it got you where you needed to be in the nick of time.

I was never a massive eater, but moving to France (pour amour of course!), I luckily didn't take much weight, but became like a pig at a trough, wanting to try everything. Naturally not great for cholesterol. The Doc (Generalist in French, MD or GP in America and UK), because of confusing blood samples tried me on a new med. Caused a hepatic reaction with my liver. Off to Urgences. They quickly found a swollen cancerous liver, and a 2 CM shallow hole in my throat. Thank you the first allergic reaction ever for me, for saving my life. So far a quick and positive reaction to chemo. Not curable or operable, but can be kept at bay. Fight with all your strength, and never surrender!

I’m glad OP came into the hospital when he or she did!

Serendipity

Is a gamma ray detector a Geiger counter?

Statistics is not the same as probability. And the probability of the described event is never zero. In any case it would be of very low probability Not improbable

We were visiting my mom, a 5 hour ride away, and my son was out removing snow from the car when a guy stopped and asked for the closest car mechanic. There was none and we ended up helping him with his problem then and there. Turns out we're from the same city and he was on his way to visit his mother in a neighboring village. Mom did of course know her, because they're third cousins.

small world dude

GEEZ

Year after graduating highschool, my highschool best friend found out her mother was adopted. When they met her birth family, my friend discovered she was first cousins with my sister's highschool boyfriend. They were both often interacting at our house not knowing of their relationship the whole time.