Okay, this one is odd.
To give you some background: at the moment I work part time as a postman and my daily duty is the same 5 days a week. Every morning I start the duty off doing half of Aberdour Road before progressing into Pitbauchlie Bank and then walking down Queenferry Road to await on my work colleague dropping off my next bag in the van (we work in pairs). This loop usually takes approximately half an hour, however, start times can vary depending on how busy or quiet the day is. So sometimes we might start as early as 8:30 am and other times we might get out the office as late as 9:10 am.
I don't know when I started to notice this, at a guess I'd say about a year ago, but one day I noticed that every time I came out of Pitbauchlie Bank to proceed down Queensferry Road, an Ambulance would be driving up Queensferry Road with lights flashing and sirens wailing. As soon as I noticed that this was happening on a daily basis, I decided to start noting down the date and time of when it would arrive to see if there was some kind of pattern. As soon as I consciously decided to do this, the anomaly stopped occurring. Then, as soon as I stopped thinking about it again and attempting to take notes (putting the matter down to random chance) the Ambulance would reappear again, lights always flashing and sirens wailing. Most mornings I'm not thinking about looking for it as I'm usually listening to an audiobook or podcast and my mind is elsewhere, however, that's when the Ambulance always appears. As soon as I look for it, it's not there. As soon as I forget about it, it appears and I always laugh to myself at the synchronistic nature of this occurrence. Last week, for example, it happened 4 out of 5 days with the one occasion that it didn't happen being the day that I was actively looking for it.
On Monday morning it happened again and I mentioned this matter to a friend on Monday night (since we were talking about the concept of programmed reality) and then on Tuesday morning, having quite forgotten the previous night's discussion, the Ambulance appeared again. This morning I was looking for it, and it wasn't there.
The town I live in has a population of approximately 50,000. Not a particularly huge population, so I guess I'm wondering what the chances are of there always being a medical emergency occurring on a daily basis, that requires an Ambulance to always be driving up that road in the same direction, whenever I happen to be walking down that road - a road incidentally that only has 5 houses on it and takes me about 3 minutes max to complete (I rarely even have to spend any time waiting on the road for my colleague as he usually completes his loop quicker than me and drops off my next bag at Pitbauchlie Bank).
It's so weird that it's like a preprogrammed sequence of events happening on a daily basis so long as I'm not anticipating it.
I've also noticed waves of synchronicities occurring with people from my past. One example is from a couple of years ago when I bumped into an old friend I hadn't seen for 20 years despite him moving into the same town as me 5 or 6 years prior to this event. We exchanged phone numbers and agreed to meet up for a drink to catch up. When we did, we talked about old times and a couple of girls we used to hang out with from our teenage years, wondering what ever became of them. The next night I went out for a beer and one of the girls (whom I hadn't seen for around 30 years and lives in an entirely different town) walked into the pub with a friend. One of the first things she said is "do you still keep in touch with Iain?" To which I replied "I saw him for the first time in 20 years last night and you were one of the subjects we talked about". Anyway, I texted my friend to say "you're never going to believe who I've just bumped into".
I ended up dating this girl for a while, but within the first week of meeting her again, I walked into my local post office to send back a faulty item I had purchased online, and bumped into my friend again and we laughed about how weird it was that I should meet this girl after just talking about her the night before. That's the last I've seen of him for 2 years and he still stays in the same town as me.
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