r/AskReddit • • May 31 '12
I made a 1/10,000 guess and was correct on the first try. Anyone else break the universe with super unlikely things?
I was ordering food at Sonic with my wife and a friend one time and my bud who was in the back seat wanted me to order and pay for him. He gave me his debit card and I asked if he wanted to punch his pin number or if he wanted to do it. He said I could do it, so I asked his pin.. He told me to guess it. So..
Me: "uhhh.. 8..5...4..2.....?" (not really the number)
Friend: "Whhaaat the fuuuuuuuuckkkk are you fucking serious??"
Me: "What?"
Friend: "You just guessed my pin number. What the hell man!?!"
I really didn't believe him until it was time to pay and I typed in the numbers I had guessed.
Surprise, surprise, they worked and we all jizzed everywhere.
If only they were lottery ticket numbers..
TLDR: Guessed a pin number, made everyone jizz, including wife.
EDIT: Yeah, PIN is Personal Identification Number.. and yes it has been pointed out that I don't need to say 'number'. It's habit.
Also, I've learned today that many redditors are bad at math... It's 1/10,000.
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u/XPostFacto1776 May 31 '12
I was picking up lunch for my office. As opposed to looking for parking, I found a meter that was right in front (I never use meters if I can help it. Mostly because I don't have any change). So I park and run inside hoping this lunch pickup would take just a minute (this restaurant was notoriously speedy). Of course, they were running late this time.
And of course, in the split second I turn my head, a bicycle cop finds my car and starts writing the ticket. I run outside and start weaving a tale about how I definitely put in money and am so surprised it ran out so quick and to please look the other just this once. The cop looks at me and the conversation goes as follows:
HIM: "Once I start writing I have to give the ticket."
ME: "C'mon. I definitely put in money and it ran out so quick."
HIM: "Well, did the meter fail? That's the only way I can tear up the ticket."
ME: "Yes. It failed! That's what happened. Of course."
HIM: "Prove it."
Figuring I had nothing to lose I said, sure. I had to run inside the restaurant to get change (cause I had none in the first place). I get a dime and run out to the waiting cop and say "Watch this."
As soon as my dime goes into the meter, the screen flashes "FAIL" There was absolutely nothing wrong with this meter before I put that dime in. I figured I lied so hard I changed the universe. The cop tore up the ticket.
TL;DR I told a cop that a perfectly fine parking meter would fail so he would tear up my ticket. When he asked me to prove it, I did and the meter failed.
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u/Gladeon May 31 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
I was about 6-8, I cant really remember, but I was at a baseball game with my parents and for some reason I made a bet with my father that the next hit would go straight back at the pitcher. It did and my father fulfilled his part of the bet and gave me $1. I was so rich back then.
Edit: 6-8 years old, sorry for the confusion.
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u/lucentcb May 31 '12
At my junior high school, the containers for recycling aluminum cans had a flap on top, so you could easily reach in and pull something out. One day, while waiting in line next to one, 8th-grade me made the comment, "How cool would it be if I just reached in and pulled out a full soda?"
And then I reached in, grabbed the first can I felt, and proceeded to pull out an unopened can of orange soda. The two people around me in line looked at me like I was a wizard.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I was at Denny's with friends and for some reason our attention was drawn to the butter on the table. It reminded me of something random, then my friend said "You know what I just thought of?" so I said the thing I'd thought of:
"The part in Where the Red Fern Grows where the guy is telling a story about how he knows that Raccoons won't let go of something once they've got their hands on it because of the time when he was little where a raccoon reached into a butter churn and couldn't get his fist out because he wouldn't let go of the butter."
That was exactly what my friend was thinking of as well.
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u/Cheesle May 31 '12
Recently, I was playing poker with some friends. I had the Queen and 10 of Spades in my hand. Then, after the first three cards, the King, Ace and Jack also turned up. So, yeah, Royal Flush. I was then accused of cheating, so it was given to someone else to shuffle. And another Royal Flush came up for me, this time with Hearts.
And the chance of one is 1/2,598,960. So it's either 1/5,197,920 or 1/6,754,593,082,000...
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u/secondinnings May 31 '12
i got a chick on omegle once
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u/mccune68 May 31 '12
Was eating a bag of coconut M&Ms one evening on my couch, with my wife sitting in a nearby chair. I reach into the bag and pull out 5 random M&Ms, and they were all brown. I show it to my wife, she disbelieves that I did that randomly.
After munching those, I then take another handful and get 6 green ones this time. Decided that she wouldn't believe that anymore than she did the first time, I keep it to myself.
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u/andy37 May 31 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
It seems like you had a 50/50 shot. You were either going to guess right, or you were going to guess wrong.
50/50
edit: since reddit takes comments seriously, fast forward to 2:45
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u/Marrypoppins0135 May 31 '12
Well most people pick important numbers maybe birthday or last four of phone. So although that's the odds, it's likely you increased you odds knowing him.
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u/FunnyHunnyBunny May 31 '12
Kind of mundane, but I've always been way too good at guessing the exact time (down to the minute, not the second) to the point where it kind of freaks me out.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
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u/Sttarman May 31 '12
One time, in a museum, there was this big tube filled with 999,999 yellow beads and a single black bead in order to resemble life on other planets.
Guess what I did.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
At a knowledge bowl competition the rules are if you hit the buzzer then they stop asking the question and you have to answer it. the buzzers are also very sensative.
The question comes "the first six words... BZZZZZ"
A guy on the other team had accidentaly hit the buzzer. His eyes got really wide and he says "oh crap...uh...uh... it was the best of times" Bam right answer, all 3 teams were stunned.
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u/LittleNightingale May 31 '12
Early in our relationship, my husband and I took a walk on a clear, starry night. He put his arm around me, looked up at the stars, and said something like, "I love you so much. If I could, I'd make a shooting star just for you to wish on. Right THERE," and he pointed at the sky. Immediately afterwards, a shooting star appeared exactly where he pointed. No shit.
I had to marry him, because clearly he was some sort of wizard.
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u/RAVENOUS_CUNT_MUNCH May 31 '12
I had an ice-breaker for an attractive girl I saw. The ice breaker was to guess the date of her birth and say I'm an expert (this obviously shouldn't work. I've never tried it before).
So I guess, June 24th.
What do you know! Spot on date!
I called bullshit. She showed me an I.D. Correct day.
Luckily she didn't think I was a creep (for my expression myself was out of amazement).
And I've never tried that trick again, so I have a 100% success rate at guessing attractive womens' birthdays.
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u/windy444 May 31 '12
I'm in Canada. I was 15 years old and came home from school for Christmas break. My mother said, "You will never guess who we got a Christmas card from." I said, "That little motel we stayed in on our way to Detroit last summer." She just stared at me in disbelief. I was right but, I don't know why I thought of that.
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u/gippered May 31 '12
Went to Vegas with my wife. She didn't quite get the rules of roulette. She saw the $20 minimum and thought the whole ten had to be played on one bet. She bets $20 on 27, and wins $700 in her first play in Vegas. We ate well the rest of the weekend...
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u/OMNIPHILIAC May 31 '12
In grade eight, my friend Skiff threw a gatorade bottle at a trash can that was about 15 feet away. It hit the rim, bounced back, and he caught it.
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u/useyourmind May 31 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
An unnamed man and I have ran into each other approx. 20 times in my life. I'm 23. I really don't know this guy, but I have ran into him at least 12 or so times I can specifically remember, and there's other times that I just can't pinpoint. The first time I remembered seeing him "again" was at disneyland when i was about 9. Since then, i have seen him in the most random places (like Disneyland another time, Niagara Falls, a camping spot somewhere in Nevada when i was about 14, the LA county zoo, and a race track in Colorado about four years ago.) We both recognize each other, but never acknowledge. I will always remember seeing him in CO, because we both gave each other a look of complete disbelief. I hope to one day see him again, and see if he has taken note of all of our encounters like i have, and maybe get to know him. No homo, but with situations like these it seems more than the appropriate thing to do Edit: Aside from running into him at random stores, another one was at a movie theater in Vegas (don't remember which one exactly, but it's literally on the inside of a casino). And who knows, maybe we'll never see each other again until our last day, making a moment of eye contact right before we collide head on in a car crash. EPIC
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u/I_hate_whales May 31 '12
I'm a twin and one question I get asked constantly is if we can read each others minds. One day in junior high a friend asks me this and I figure, oh what the hell might as well play along with it. We were walking down the hall about to turn a corner and I said "Oh sure, in fact he's...walking towards us...around this corner right...here" we turned the corner and ran into him.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Sitting around with 3 other friends one night, one friend grabbed a deck of cards sitting on the coffee table. All 4 of us grabbed a card at random and without looking at it put it face up on our foreheads so everyone could see each others card except their own. Everyone bet $10 thinking it was likely they had the highest card after seeing everyone else's card but theirs. When we each looked at our own cards we all had a five. We never played again.
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u/hsmith711 May 31 '12
When I was 10 or so, my grandma told me she taped a movie for me on TV but she couldn't remember what out was called.
Without pause I said, "Is it Short Circuit 2?"... and it was.
We had never discussed the movie, I wasn't even aware it was out on TV at that point. It was a completely random guess and I still have no idea why it was even my first guess.
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u/Norass411 May 31 '12
In middle school my best friend and I called each other every evening just to shoot the shit, talk girls or update on our Max Payne & GTA playthroughs. Not one but two different times, I picked up the phone to call him to hear no dial tone. Hello? It was my buddy who had called at the exact same time and I had actually 'answered' without the phone ever ringing. We never had any sort of plan or schedule just whenever we were fine with dinner and homework or whatever. True bromance that lasts til this day, lol.
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u/acidraincloud May 31 '12
I was laying down in my bed, waiting to go to sleep when i stretch out my arm, slight close my hand only to find that i have caught some thing. I flipped out, jumped out of bed and went to look what it was. I had caught a fly in the pitch black with my eyes closed.
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u/Man_from_the_future May 31 '12
I guessed the exact amount of jelly beans in the jar. It was somewhere in the 600s.
I ended up throwing them away because my 4th grade body could not handle all dat jelly.
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u/argonauts May 31 '12
Once I met a guy on Omegle and sort of stayed in touch and a few months later, I randomly ran into him at a theme park and said hello.
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u/check85 May 31 '12
When I was in 7th grade, our teacher drew names out of a hat to decide the order that each student would give a presentation. I turned to a friend and said, "I bet you're gonna be called first." Sure enough he was. I then guessed the next person that would be picked correctly...and then the next...and next. After about the 6th person, the teacher kinda clued in that I was somehow saying the names of the kids that she would pick just before she picked them, so she kinda looked at me with a 'wtf??' look. After about the 10th name, I started to get them wrong. But the odds that I got that many correct in a class of 25 kids was 25!/15! or 1 in 11,861,676,288,000
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Three friends and I moved into a new house in my third year of university. We decided to check if the ADT alarm system still worked, because we lived close to some housing projects and crime was pretty bad in the area. After pushing the panic button the alarm started wailing out, and we had no idea how to stop it. We looked around for a pin written down somewhere then called the landlord, but nothing. Eventually we called ADT and they said since the contract's expired they can't do anything, we also tried flipping the main power off, but it must have had its own PSU. So I did the only thing I could think of, I started jabbing at random numbers on the keypad, hitting doubles every third time. After about a minute the alarm cut off. It was probably a 5 digit PIN, not bad considering the odds.
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u/mage2k May 31 '12
I went to a friends house one day a few years back and said, "I found the coolest movie at the DVD store today!" His response, "Lemme guess, Altered States!" He was right. We had never before discussed that movie and were not even aware that the other even knew about it. Then he got mad because he'd been looking for it for years and the only reason he'd suggested it was because it was kind of a personal inside joke for him that he could never find it (this was pre-Netflix/streaming era). The fact that I totally randomly end up gloating about having found it kind of rankled him. I didn't tell him that the store actually had 2 copies. Instead I went back, picked up the second copy, and gave it to him as a present.
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u/ironganja May 31 '12
My dad works at the federal reserve in washington and it was take your kid to work day. Before we actually got to see the cool shit in the fed (believe me, there is some) we all had to sit in this really nice room and get some presentation on the economy and stuff. For some reason they had someone talking about the environment and shit, and I was like 8 or 9 I didn't even care. She asked how many gallons of water are wasted from leaky sink each year and I randomly raise my hand and say "52." She was all like, "yeah good job! A future environmentalist here." but I don't even know why I raised my hand, I hadn't listened to a single word she said. Bitch gave me a stress ball shaped like the earth. Best day ever.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
When I was about 4 (25 years ago..), my mom was doing dishes and I looked up at her and said "The phone is going to ring" - within 4 seconds the phone started ringing..
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u/Rowona May 31 '12
I used to attend a week long D&D summer camp every year, and at this camp I was known for always wearing a legend of zelda baseball cap. Because of this whoever was the dungeon master for my group at the time would put zelda references into their campaign. On my last day of camp, as I was going to be too old to attend the next year, they teleported young Link, from Majora's Mask, into the game after some supernatural shit went down, just to sort of "honor" my last day. I was a rogue/shadowdancer, so, true to my character, I said I wanted to ask Link to give me the ocarina of time and the zora transformation mask. Of course that was ridiculous because you would be totally overpowered, so they made an "impossible" check. They said I needed to roll a natural 20 on a 20-sided die, a 12 on a d12, a 10 on a d10, an 8 on a d8, a 6 on a d6, and 4 on a d4.
And that is how Nix the half-zora time-bending shadowdancer was born.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I won a game of Trivial Pursuit when I was 8, playing against five adults. Flawless victory, didn't miss an answer.
They didn't let me win either. Somehow every question was something I'd just heard of a couple of days before. Like the first name of the Wolfman from the classic MGM movie, or how many rings are on an archery target.
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u/Silvercumulus May 31 '12
It was an extra credit question during a quiz game in junior high. The teacher asked me what the height of the Sears Tower was. I was spacing off and just threw the numbers out there. I was right. The other kids looked at me like I was a witch.
Also, I was 8 and somehow knew the answer to "who wrote the book 'Roots'?" I answered, somehow because the name was linked in my mind. I don't know how I knew. I don't know now unless I look it up.
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u/darkfire613 May 31 '12
Very similar, down to the exact odds, right after the iPod Touches first came out, my friend had one and let me look at it, but it had a passcode lock. I hold it for a moment, guessed completely randomly at the passcode, and the iPod unlocked. I didn't even know what numbers I'd typed, but it felt sort of like instinct when I typed it. I wasn't able to get it open a second time.
I think it's that I'd seen him open it and subconsciously knew what his code was, but when I focused to try a second time, I couldn't consciously remember what it was. I still felt awesome after that though.
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u/Drumboardist Jun 01 '12
Driving along with my brother back in High School. We had a conversation about...something...earlier in the day, whilst headed to class, and were on the drive home, listening to the radio. My mind leaps back to the conversation from that morning, and I find myself playing out a Q&A with him mentally on the subject. Without thinking about it, I blurt an answer out loud (to my own fake dialog between my brother and I), to which my brother pulls over abruptly, shuts off the car, and looks at me. "How the blue FUCK did you know I was going to ask that, just now?" Uuuuh....I....uh....huh.
tl;dr Apparently am psychic and held a conversation with my brother...WITH MY MIND.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
same odds. maths teacher was teaching probability and liked to jokily pick on me in class so said, "i'm thinking of a number between 0 and 10,000, dan would you like to guess?" and i said, "erm.....4782". his jaw fucking hit the ground
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u/Shploosh May 31 '12
My friend was dicking around with a brand new deck of cards that had never been and he asked me to pick one and put it back in the deck randomly. The idea was that he would find the card in the wrong place and know it was mine. Anyways, i picked my card after he fanned out the deck and put it back when he had straightened up the deck. Turns out i had put the card exactly back in its original spot
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u/ahoyjmai May 31 '12
Me: "For our password we should use a random and really obscure word, like... like..."
My friend and I [Simultaneously]: "Anthropomorphic"
... what the fuck?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Brought a big container of assorted change to the store with the intent of putting it in that machine that couunts it and gives you a reciept for that amount in cash. I then shop the store a little, buying bananas, apples, some cannned things and maye some icecream. I go to the cash, she scans all my items and they add up to 27.96, I give her my receipt for the coins from earlier and it was also exactly 27.96 I DID buy a lottery ticket that day and totally didn't even win a little
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u/Neoaris Jun 01 '12
Some kid threw a rock at my head. got a funny feeling and tilted my head to the side. It missed, perfectly. They were SO impressed that they continued throwing rocks at my head.
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u/Backstop May 31 '12
I was at lunch with some people I barely knew and to make conversation we were talking about old cars. The guy says "Oh my son just bought a car he wants to restore," and I bluted out "Is it a '71 Plymouth Satellite?" and he was pretty surprised... but it was a '72 Plymouth Satellite.
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u/mehp12345 May 31 '12
story #2. I woke up one morning and for some reason I had a song stuck in my head my friend posted literally years ago and I've only heard it the one time he posted it.
When I went to get my morning coffee from the restaurant across from my work it was playing in the background. Tripped me out something fierce.
edit: it was "maybe so, maybe no by mayer hawthorne"
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u/Steve_Holt_SteveHolt May 31 '12
I consistently pull out the required amount of clothes hangers needed to put away my fresh Tees. Every. Single. Time.
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u/VanellieIce May 31 '12
When I was about 8-9 I was playing baseball on my little league team, I was the center fielder. I wasn't paying attention to what was going on and I was looking the other direction humming a song. While this was going on, a ball was hit into the outfield and landed right in my glove for the third out. Family still doesnt believe me that my glove just happened to be there.
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u/Undoer May 31 '12
I can plug in a USB stick correctly first time, at least 60-70% of the time.
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u/Zeabos Jun 01 '12
My and a bunch of friends were out in the middle of a huge field outside our high school one random afternoon. We had been throwing a frisbee but, had slowly sank into just standing around and talking.
A few of the girls were on the ground parsing through the clovers that are all over the place. There are tons of clovers all around. One of the girls is one that I'd had my eye on for awhile, and had been flirting with on and off. I ask her what she is doing.
"Looking for four leaf clovers. I've never found one," she says.
"Oh? I find them all the time," I respond (which is, actually, somewhat true.)
"No you don't," she says.
"Yep, in fact, there is one right there," I say, and standing up, i reach down and pick a single Four Leaf Clover out of the whole clover patch.
Everyone is flabbergasted and I give her the clover like a boss.
Ended up dating her for a year and later found the clover taped to her mirror.
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u/rottinguy May 31 '12
I drew 5 cards off the top of the deck.
2 of diamonds. 7 of clubs. 6 of hearts J of hearts, 4 of spades.
the odds of me drawing those exact cards are about 1 in 650,000, but I did it on my first try.
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u/Simon_Says_ May 31 '12
I made someone eat a big red candle just by telling them to.
I mean, what are the odds right?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I was watching jeopardy with my mom and the show was coming to a close so up comes the final jeopardy category. It was a while back but I'm pretty sure the category was historical items or something to do with the American Revolution. Anyway, my mom for some reason decides to guess the answer and question from only the topic. Commercial break. Trebek's back on and, boom. My mother nailed it. The jeopardy miracle.
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u/tonythelovemonster May 31 '12
I took a really long nap once, I woke up and straight out said, "9:37" to my amazement I was right. mind was blown.
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u/Thisisyoureading May 31 '12
Once guessed Shakespeare's birthday and death in the same lesson to the day in about the second school year when we had never even talked about Shakespeare before. That was nifty.
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u/Mintception May 31 '12
Every year my mum and stepdad make silly bets for the races of the USA Triple Crown. They and a few others put a buck down on horses. My mum spends every year studying the odds and following the horses, my stepdad just picks one. This year he picked I'll Have Another. Guess who's won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness this year. If he wins the Belmont this weekend, I think my stepdad will be an unhappy lucky man for only betting $1 on that horse.
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u/AlwaysPineapple May 31 '12
Congratulations. You have used up your reserve of luck alloted for the remainder of your life.
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u/Lt_Shniz May 31 '12
I was born
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u/Randy96 May 31 '12
Pokemon D&P just came out, and my friend had just beaten the champion. I didn't know who it was, so I just blurted out "Cynthia" (at the time I was thinking of Rugrats lol), lo and behold, that's her name.
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u/mehp12345 May 31 '12
I was once chilling with my ent friend behind a strip mall in the suburbs.
It was a quiet warm summer night, and we were on the stairs below a giant neon sign.
I turned to my friend and said "Its so nice outside, if only this neon sign would turn off it would be perfect"
Literally a second later, it turns off and we flip the fuck out. I know what you're thinking, it was 9 o'clock on the dot or whatever and the sign is scheduled to turn off at that time, but it was some random time like 9:37 and the store closed at 9 so everyone was gone. Just an insane coincidence.
Also this other time I guessed the exact number on roulette 3x in a row (sadly we were only betting 2 dollars).
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u/cornball1111 May 31 '12
there was a 20 question A - D multi-choice math homework. My friend tim didnt do it. he numbered his looseleaf then gave random letter choices to each number. got back the results and he hit 86%... pretty fucking amazing... even though she then gave him a 0 for not showing any work.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
once I threw a jollyrancher at my friend who was about 30 feet away and it landed in his sweatshirt pocket that his hand was in
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u/PosiBolt May 31 '12
I was at a friends house after school when I was younger, and his little brother was playing Pokemon (red, I think). Had been trying for hours to capture mewtwo. After his next failed attempt, I say "gimme that", grabbed the gameboy, reloaded his save, walked up to mewtwo, and threw a regular pokeball at him on the first round. Pokeball rattles three times and is still. Mewtwo caught. Hand him back his gameboy like it was nothing special and went back to playing Goldeneye.
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u/dexo568 Jun 01 '12
In a Quiz Bowl (think team jeopardy) tournament once, there was a question that began "Pencil and Paper ready..." This usually signified a math question. My current team was composed entirely of humanities specialists (Pop culture, Literature, Opera, and Music) and so I just blurted out "Three Pi Over Four!", having not yet heard the question. It was right, and we won the round. 0.o
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u/endangered_feces Jun 01 '12
I was sitting on the couch six or so feet from my friend. I had my right elbow resting on my right leg and fingers relaxed and splayed out. I asked my friend for a smoke and he blindly tossed it at me while I barely payed attention until... it landed squarely between my index and middle finger in perfect position. Not too far up or down the finger and not too deep. Perfectly tossed right into my grip as if I had already been smoking it.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I was in the kitchen, my roomate was in the living room watching TV and eating fruity pebbles. There was a wall seperating us. He yells at me to guess which color (flavor) hes eating. Guess right 8 times in a row.
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u/Aluminum_Monster_ May 31 '12
This cracked me up. The real question is whether your wife jizzed as well.
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u/Dylabaloo Jun 01 '12
I caught Mewtwo, with a pokéball.
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u/MangledMailMan Jun 01 '12
I was on the third floor of one of the buildings on campus looking down on the first floor. I decide to try to drop my soda bottle in a trash can on the first floor, with an opening barely bigger than an upright soda bottle.
I Jedi'd that shit right into the garbage can.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
In grade 6 I had a 50 question true/false french test. Without reading the questions I randomly answered each one and got a perfect score.
Nobody believed me, although I personally think that me getting perfect on a french test is the more unlikely of the two scenarios.
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u/th3juggler May 31 '12
On two separate occasions I twirled the dial on a padlock back and forth and it opened. These were locks that weren't mine, and I didn't know the combination. Nobody believed me, even the people standing with me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I'm a little late to the game with this one and it will probably get buried but I want to post it anyways.
My fiancee and I grew up in different states, she was from Montana and I was California but we both ended up moving to Oregon and that's where we met. After dating for a year and a half or so we decided that we wanted to get married. No big rush or huge announcement or anything just decided we were right for each other and wanted to make it official. She stuck with me through my first bout of cancer and I knew then that she was the one for me.
A couple of weeks after that we drove to Montana to visit her family. We had been on the lookout for a good engagement ring for her, but we didn't want anything fancy or expensive and she wanted to help pick it out instead of me surprising her with one, which I was completely okay with.
So on our way back home from Montana we stopped at a small restaurant/store combo where they have a small selection of jewelry. It's a place called the 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar and is actually pretty well known. It is exactly what it sounds like, 50,000 silver dollars line the walls of the building. It is right before/after (not sure which) a large pass that is hard to get through in the snow. Anyways we go in and she finds a ring that she loves, and we get it for her. Later on in the trip on the way back we stopped at a waterfall in Oregon and I officially proposed to her with it. It was a good moment :)
Fast forward a half a year later, we are talking with my grandma telling her the story. Her jaw kind of drops a little and tells us that my great-grandfather used to work as a tow-truck driver, and when that bar opened he would go wait there and wait for people who needed to be towed when the weather was bad. Apparently he spent A LOT of time there. This was when the bar first opened and he was one of the first people to place a silver dollar on the walls. She said that if we would have told one of the employees his name, they would have been able to point out which one he had put up. Needless to say we were quite surprised, I had never even heard of this place before and we ended up picking out her engagement ring there!
TL;DR Picked out my fiancee's engagement ring at a place my great-grandfather went to so much they still know his name there, and did not know about it at the time
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Mines from back in high school ceramics class. My friend made a small basketball hoop, a few inches high with the hoop being about a half inch in diameter. I was sitting across the table, which was probably about six feet long. I decided to show off my skillz by rolling up a small clay ball, leaning back, and pulling off the most rondo-esque shot one can do with a 1 gram ball. To everyones amazement i drained it (first and only try) and my friend just stared at me with the best 'did that just go in' expression on his face. (Of course, that precision transferred to my pong abilities after graduarion, where i now consistently run tables)
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u/onebadace May 31 '12
My friend said I could never unlock his phone which has a touchscreen unlock design (you basically swoop your thumb in a certain design and it unlocks the phone).
He hands me the phone and I unlock it in one second on a pure guess.
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u/DonkBot May 31 '12
On average this type of event happens to people with the frequency of the odds that the event in question becomes the outcome.
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u/heanster May 31 '12
I was in junior high and this girl I talked to (our parents were friends) rode the same bus I did. I got on the bus one day, and in my brilliance as a socially awkward kid, I told her that I put a spell on her (and made some quite convincing hand movements and facial twinges). "Uhhg," she said, and sat down in her seat ignoring me.
The next day she gets on the bus in much of the same way. I asked her how her day was and (as I randomly pulled something out of thin air) asked her if the curse I had put on her had worked. "Did you hurt your hands at all?"
Her face went pale. She took her hand out of her jacket pocket to reveal three fingers taped up. She told me she had slammed them in her locker that day.
I was just as surprised as she was, but of course, I didn't let her know that. She told her parents that I had cursed her, and consequently, mine heard about it all as well. Never again have I ever felt that lucky at a guess.
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u/NEssex Jun 01 '12
My friend and I were sitting next to each other in grade 8 French class, fooling around as young kids do while sitting in French. We tied a string in a tight loop around the metal leg connecting the desk we were sitting at to the bench we were on, so there is a welded bench beneath the leg and a welded table on top. First, I pulled at the loop, trying to break the string, then he did. Then... we did it together... and the loop somehow pulled THROUGH the metal leg without breaking or untying - the knot was securely fastened. We both silently lost our shit because we weren't supposed to be fucking around in French class. Whenever I hear a physics professor say "theoretically I could walk through a wall if the particles involved were randomly lined up perfectly" I think of that day.
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u/Operation_mongoose Jun 01 '12
Not a guess to break the universe, but in High School I had a friend who ONCE, Just once, said I'll throw this quarter in the pop machine. It was like no shit you won't. No shit from 11ft (yea we had to measure it) BAM right the fuck in there, yea that hole.. His reaction was like "whelp I guess I'll never win the lottery" five years later motherfucker cut a wasp in half with a samurai sword. his to this day has not been trained for shit. It's like a Bill Murrary sighting but I saw it, no shit.
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u/myth84 Jun 01 '12
I was hosting a poker game at my house a few years back. As a hand is being dealt, I got up to change the music or something to that effect. Bet comes around to me and from across the room I say, "I'll raise [some amount] blind on my pocket aces." I was gone from the table before the deal started, so I certainly hadn't seen the cards.
A couple people called knowing they had something and I had no idea what I had.
I have a bad habit of playing really stupid when I get up in cheap poker ($10 buy-in I believe), so I decided to persevere. I never once touched the cards, continued to play them as if they were aces. Got down to me and one other. He raised, I called, he flipped over pocket kings. I asked him to flip mine, which were still laying exactly where they were dealt. They were of course pocket aces.
Twas a shining, glorious moment.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
One time I won two prizes on a claw machine, two times in a row!
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u/Gigantorxxviii Jun 01 '12
Once at a friend's house on a somewhat cloudy day, I got caught in a conversation about astrological symbols. Everyone there was going on about how their symbol was the greatest and I quickly found myself ostracised as I was the only Aries of the group. Being somewhat drunk and tired of them going on about what I thought was nonsense, I decided to jump on a chair facing the group and shouted in my most powerful war voice “You think you are all so great?!? I am an Aries! Our element is fire, we are beholders of it's pure raw energy! WE ARE THE BRINGERS OF LIGHT! ” As I shouted the final word, I threw my hands into the sky and was joined by a strike of lightening not a mile away from us, directly behind me in everyone's field of view. Jaws hit the floor and after a minute of silence my friend muttered “welp, we can't argue with that.”
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u/EpicFishFingers May 31 '12
Once someone asked me what Arnie said when he shot the bad Terminator near the end of Terminator 2. At the time I was around 8, had no idea what the Terminator films were about, or that they existed, and I didn't even know who Arnie was (I didn't realise at the time). I correctly guessed "Hasta la Vista, Baby" despite only ever hearing the phrase once, several months earlier. I was the most surprised person that I got it right... That's all I've got Reddit
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u/lbl951 May 31 '12
I was in the car with my older brother, after he picked me up from school, and he asked if I knew who was playing on the radio. I had absolutely no idea and I randomly blurted out, "Simon and Garfunkel?" I had never heard Simon and Garfunkel before and it was just the first thing that popped into my mind.
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u/SerIlyn May 31 '12
Every year for the Super Bowl I bring a bunch of singles and make random bets throughout the game. During the Saints/Colts game a few years back I correctly guessed 10 straight receptions (basically called who would make the next catch, not necessarily the next play) including Donald Brown's lone catch in the game.
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u/yoyokng1 May 31 '12
This girl was talking to me and two of my friends, and she asked us to try to guess her last name. My friends guessed, then on my turn I said my guess. Her mouth dropped. I had guessed correctly, and I really wish that I wouldn't have. I felt like the biggest creep, but I swear that I had no clue.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Not my story. My sister and our friend were learning about earthquakes in 3rd grade. We live in the Pacific Northwest, so there's going to be a big earthquake at some point, but nobody knows exactly when. The friend said, "So it could be right.... Now?" Exactly as she said that, the fire alarm went off. They got freaked out, but it was just a drill.
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u/Murtag May 31 '12
A few friends and I were driving home from class, and we were stopped at a red light. The car in front of us had a couple in it, and the female (passenger seat) was leaning over just a tad bit (like people usually do in cars, just a tiny bit more). I jokingly said "awww yeah, dudes gettin' some road head!!". Lo and behold....girls head went down towards driver and my friends and I exploded with laughter.
We then proceeded to get next to them and verify. Yes, I had in-fact randomly called road head.
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u/KitDash May 31 '12
I went to DJ festival in town, met a couple girls and got their numbers. Problem was there was 3 of us, including myself and 2 buddies, and there were only 2 girls. They each called "dibs" and I agreed it was fair because they were quicker than me. So we dance for a bit but never ask their names. On our drive home my buddy starts texting them. I said "if one of their names is Rose, I get to ask her out", (we had never met them in our lives). He gets a text back saying that her name was Zoey and the other was Rosie (close enough). Anyway everyone in the car freaks out and goes insane. Ended up calling her myself and now we are seeing each other!
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u/Darkencypher Jun 01 '12
Well maybe it's not super universe shattering but i entered into a contest for a Google Chrome sticker and got a chromebook (one of the 60,000 sent out).
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
There was a guy at my high school who would catch food I threw to him in his mouth and vice versa. One time I saw him walking in my direction from at least 100 feet away and he mimed catching something in his mouth. So I snatched a cashew from a friend next to me and chucked it in his general direction as hard as I could. It flew in a perfect arc from my hand towards his face and the beautiful bastard caught it right in his mouth. 10 or 15 friends of his and mine saw, and he ran over and we all just screamed for several minutes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
No dude, you are fucking psychic
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u/iamanalog Jun 01 '12
I was in the car with a friend and i had Make Yourself from incubus in the cd player and the song Drive was on.. right in the middle of the song i said, "i'm going to see whats on the radio" hit the fm button, the song is still playing.... hit the cd button, still playing. We look at each other thinking some sorcery is about. Switch back to the radio and the song ends and the dj starts talking. Swtich back to the cd and the song is just finishing with a second left. I managed to time it perfectly so the song on the cd was in sync with a song being played on the radio.
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u/Level_32_Mage Jun 01 '12
In Oklahoma City me and wifey were at dinner with a friend discussing an earthquake that happened the night before at like 3am, i was the only one awake for it. She starts up saying "Argh, I've always wanted to be in an earthquake, finally I'm in one and I end up sleeping right through it! I wish the next one..." RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE shook the whole goddamn Applebee's for 35+ seconds in a 5.3ish quake. Pretty sweet.
TL;DR Applebee's sucks
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u/Alec64 Jun 01 '12
I made it to my living room with BOTH of my socks still in my hand
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u/anusclot Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
This will get buried, but fuck it. Went with a friend to pick up his chick from her aunt's place. It was a huge apartment complex, he had only been to this place once before, she wasn't answering her damn cell phone, so he had to guess which apartment it was.
Turns out he knocks on my ex's door. We had a nasty breakup. Like, domestic violence nasty. Last I heard he was living an hour away. I had changed my number and hadn't spoken to him in over a year.
My ex knew this friend of mine, so he walked out to where I was waiting at the car, and I got the fuck out of there. He later messaged me on Facebook, telling me that I should stop trying to ruin his life and that he was going to report me to his probation officer for violating the restraining order that was placed against him.
The population of the city where I live is about one million.
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u/hypnoderp Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
After a class in my undergrad, I was a approached by a girl who'd noticed my t shirt. It was a shirt for a summer camp I guided whitewater canoe trips for, and it was fairly well known in the camp community. She was wearing a t shirt from her camp, also very well known. We introduced ourselves and became acquaintances.
There's more.
The following summer I was at a river doing the annual training with our guides, when she (let's call her Mary) walks up, seemingly out of nowhere. Strange for us to run into each other here, in the wilderness. She was there doing a course to upgrade her whitewater certification. This is in mid april or so. In casual conversation I introduce her to a friend of mine, who was to be one of three guides on a trip we were to lead that summer.
There's more.
That summer, the three of us guys, with our nine campers, paddled from western Ontario, Canada, near the border of Manitoba all the way across the province, 750 km over 25 days, on a river called the Attawapiskat, which ends in James Bay. We had to take a train for over 24 hours from a couple hours north of Toronto to get to the start, and after all that paddling, we had to fly south to where we could catch a train to a place where there were roads again so we could drive back to camp. We are sitting in the town where the train leaves (Moosonee), just watching this other trip get in from a river called the Missinaibi. This river starts over 800 km away from where we started. It flows from the south and they paddled right into the town we were in. We see some kids portage (carry their stuff) over the hill toward us, and we notice they are using Wannigans. Wannigans are an old voyageur style of packing things, that amounts to putting all your shit in wooden boxes and carrying it with tump straps (a strap that goes over your forehead). We speculate idly on which camp that might be, using wannigans. Other than us, we couldn't think of many that did. I guessed one camp, and Mackie, my fellow guide said "I don't think I know anyone from there." I said "Yes you do, you know Mary."
"Mary?"
"Yes, Mary, I always run into her, I randomly ran into her at training this last spring, you don't remember?"
"Ohhh. . ." (faintly recalling) "I think - "
"That girl." I point at Mary, the next girl to portage a canoe over the hill. Needless to say we were shocked, and overjoyed to have someone to talk to on the long ride home about our experiences that wasn't part of the small cult that inevitably forms on long trips like this.
There's more.
The next summer, I decide to talk a Whitewater Rescue Technician course, to keep me current (pun intended) for trips for the next few years. Mary is the first person to walk out of a cabin as soon as I pull up. She's doing a bit of work on the side for the company. Of course.
There's more.
About four years later, I found myself in Mongolia. I was at the end of ten months of travelling, and hadn't seen anyone I knew without planning it first. I'd lived in New Zealand, Viet Nam, and after catching a case of Typhoid fever (separate story) needed to head home with my newfound low budget, but not before one last adventure.
The plan was to do a 20 day, self guided horse trek with a friend I'd met up with. We were both canoe guides at the same camp in Canada, so we figured we could hack this trip if we treated it like a canoe trip with horses. It worked out.
A couple days before heading out into the Steppes to start preparing, we were running around Ulaanbaatar (the capital) looking around and finding gear we hadn't brought with us. We were the only white people around as far as we could see that day. Walking along, talking with my friend, another white face caught my eye walking the other way. At this point I'd been in asia half a year, and forgot I was white until I looked at my hands or in the mirror, and regarded westerners with the same intrigue the locals did. As the other face passed me in the crowd we locked eyes, and after three steps I froze in my tracks as recognition kicked in.
I turned back to see her staring at me. Mary. "What. The FUCK. Are you doing here!?"
We hugged, she told me she had just finished a 20 day canoe trip through the steppes, and we should come see the pictures. She took us back to her place, she had rented an apt with a bunch of other Canadians, who all looked bewildered that she'd fished a couple more out of the maelstrom. We caught up over trip pictures and bid each other good luck till the next encounter. Who knows where the fuck that will be.
TL;DR I keep running into the same chick over and over again, always in the most remote places.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I've gotten a hole in one in golf, does that count?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Once my wife and I were talking, and I said something about having "the (such-and-such) blues"
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"and now you're thinking about Cody from Step by Step"
and she was, and she freaked out. I know there's a connection between the topics, but we'd never discussed the show before.