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steva11
Posts: 1687
Phone Model:
w810i/pearl
Service Provider:
Rogers |
 
Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:22 pm |
it's wierd the way things work out sometimes...like this story, just thought i'd share...
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SYRINGA, Idaho (AP) - It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations.
"I didn't even have much reaction," said Jackson. "I was so dumbfounded."
As a boy, Jackson felt bad that his grandmother was too poor to have a washer. So he took the rifle he had earned money for by mowing lawns and doing other chores to a pawn shop.
"That was the only thing I had that was worth anything," Jackson told The Lewiston Tribune.
The pawn shop owner agreed to trade a wringer washer for the rifle. When the washer was delivered to his grandmother, Edna Jackson, she refused it until realizing the sacrifice her grandson had made.
"She just couldn't believe it," Jackson said.
The rifle, meanwhile, remained with the pawn shop owner, Bill Jackson. He never sold the rifle, instead giving it to family friend James Grow in the 1980s, recounting the story that accompanied the rifle.
"He told me the story but I never thought anything about it," Grow said. "I didn't even know who Terry Jackson was at the time, although Bill did tell me his name."
Grow said Bill Jackson told him the gun might be worth something someday. He never shot the rifle and kept it in his closet.
Grow become an attorney in Lewiston, and Terry Jackson recently hired Grow to do some legal work. The connection might not have been made about the rifle except for a conversation Becky Brotnov, Terry Jackson's companion, had with Grow during a business lunch.
She told the story of Terry Jackson giving up the rifle to get the washer.
"All of a sudden it dawned on me, I own the gun," Grow said.
After hearing the story, Grow said he knew he wouldn't keep the gun. So he recently drove to Terry Jackson's home to return the rifle.
"That was a really nice thing he did for his grandma," Grow said.
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i had a woman the other day who wanted to migrate but needed to get some stuff done on orange first, so i transferred her, and she kept getting transferred around to about 5 reps, then a rep transferred her back to me! what are the odds.
another time i called orange care on a customer's behalf to get some info as she had accounts on orange and blue. i started telling the rep the info and he's like "yeah, i was talking to her earlier!" I guess she had called and spoke to a rep earlier in the day, ung up, called back later and spoke to me, i called orange care and spoke to the rep she had spoken with earlier!
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:12 pm |
When I was a little kid (I think about 2-3 years) my mother gave me to some sort of daycare where another mother took care of me and got paid for it.
Years later, at age 17 I started the last three years of my school carrer (no idea with what I can compare it, according to the dictonary the german word is described as "diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation" - it is voluntarily and needs 3 extra years of school)..
In this last 3 years all attendeds are in one big class.
And there was a girl... she went to a parallel class the 6 prior years... never had something to do with her that time... but now in the big class you gotta talk to each other  especially since she was cute 
We found out: she was the daughter of that woman, the girl was a playmate from my early childhood years!
Even memories came back, I remembered I had a book with a dedication written by her mother and with her name in it. Somehow I even got sort of memories of their old appartment.
That was pretty weird!
It was even weirder when I met her mother and she kept telling (awkward) stories...
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steva11
Posts: 1687
Phone Model:
w810i/pearl
Service Provider:
Rogers |
Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:00 pm |
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crzy...i can't really recall something like that happening in my personal life, just through work. that would be kinda neat to see how they had changed after all those years.
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H82typ
Posts: 95
Phone Model:
Moto V180/(RIP) LG CU 400
Service Provider:
The New AT&T |
Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:53 pm |
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Aren't those examples of syncronicity? lol
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TipiCrawler
Posts: 617
Phone Model:
Nokia
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:21 pm |
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serendipity?
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peryus88
Posts: 459
Service Provider:
at&t |
Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:29 pm |
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I'm not too sure it's serendipity, because doesn't it apply that you get good fortune constantly? And this was just a one-time event? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Jadall
Posts: 389
Phone Model:
Nokia 3300,Nokia n-gage, SEt290a
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:40 am |
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there is a tv show 6 degrees and it's about how everyone in the world is connected to everyone else thru 6 people is the thesis for the tv show.. I've been totally blown away many times about meeting someone and finding out they know my people
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IglooFarmer
Posts: 523 |
Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:39 pm |
When i was about 16 i went on this cruis to mexico (it was like 7 days) and met this girl. We hung out the whole time. Well half way through the cruis we got more intiment (just kissing and hugging). Close to end of our cruis we said our goodbyes and i saw a tear run down her eye. We exchanged phone numbers of course but we lived about 300 miles away. We would call each other everyday for the past half a year then the calles grew less and less untill we stoped talking, about 2 and some years later. About 3 years after that i went to the beach with my brother to score some chicks and while i was there i saw someone, (about 1/4 of a mile down the beach) a girl who looked familiar. I asked my brother if he thought it was the girl (sarah was her name) and he said it looked like her. So i started walking down there and about 1/4 of the way there she looked at me for a quick second before these 2 girls jumped right in front of me and started talking to me and my brother. They were pretty hot and distracted me. By the time i remembered about what i was doing it had been 20min and when i looked she was gone. . .
After talking to the girls my brother got both there phone numbers and they walked off. We were about to head home when my brother said he wanted to get something from wallmart. So i headed there and got some stuff for my self so i didnt have to go back later that week for groceries. Just when we got in line Sarah got in line behind us, i turned around and she looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Robert?". I replied "Sarah, wow long time no see." after that we chatted for a bit and i found out she moved out here and got her adress and phone number. I found out she was single so we started going out. we have been dating for 2 years and recently i asked her to marry me. we are now engaged and getting married soon. Its crazy how life works.
True Story.
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McGirk
Posts: 2394
Phone Model:
AX380 Wave
Service Provider:
Alltel |
Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:11 am |
My turn Igloo
This one time at band camp . . .
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boonsgirl
Posts: 422
Phone Model:
LG
Service Provider:
Telus |
Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:29 am |
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i actually went to band camp. lol! and I play the flute!
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