What are the odds of this?

[Rain Man]

My wife and I were wandering around in an antique store today, and we meandered by two women who were chatting.

One of the women asked if the other had moved yet, and she said that she had just bought a condo at the corner of 6th and Ivanhoe.

That caught the attention of my wife and me, because we lived in that condo, which is a very unusual property. It was ten apartments that were built to look like a mansion, and we bought two apartments and turned them into one of seven condos on the property. We were the first buyers, and I was the first president of the homeowner's association. It was also our first home and our first remodeling project, since we completely created the unit.

I couldn't resist, so I broke into the conversation and asked the woman which unit she bought. It turned out that she bought our unit. We had a great chat about what the place looked like when my wife and I bought it compared to what it looks like now, and she said that she'll invite us over once she gets moved in.

The funny thing is that this condo is nowhere near the antique shop. What are the odds that we would be in the shop at the same time as this woman, and would then walk by her right as she described the property? Pretty amazing.

[ShortRoundChief]

you should make a poll

[greg63]

100000000000000000000000000000000 to 1

I don't know. If I were you I would hire somebody to do a study.

[Rain Man]

Maybe I'll apply for a federal grant. This would beat out all of those soybean research applications, I bet.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

My wife and I were wandering around in an antique store today, and we meandered by two women who were chatting.

One of the women asked if the other had moved yet, and she said that she had just bought a condo at the corner of 6th and Ivanhoe.

That caught the attention of my wife and me, because we lived in that condo, which is a very unusual property. It was ten apartments that were built to look like a mansion, and we bought two apartments and turned them into one of seven condos on the property. We were the first buyers, and I was the first president of the homeowner's association. It was also our first home and our first remodeling project, since we completely created the unit.

I couldn't resist, so I broke into the conversation and asked the woman which unit she bought. It turned out that she bought our unit. We had a great chat about what the place looked like when my wife and I bought it compared to what it looks like now, and she said that she'll invite us over once she gets moved in.
The funny thing is that this condo is nowhere near the antique shop. What are the odds that we would be in the shop at the same time as this woman, and would then walk by her right as she described the property? Pretty amazing.

Go buy five picks in tonights powerball drawing.

[headsnap]

stalker

[alnorth]

Probability and math geek checking in.

What are the odds that we would be in the shop at the same time as this woman, and would then walk by her right as she described the property?

If you "called the shot" before stepping up to the plate, and then had it happen? Idiotically remote.

What are the odds that some amazingly unlikely thing will happen to you sometime in the next year that you have not yet thought of, while millions of other equally unlikely events fail to happen? Probably pretty good.

I joined the USMC on the buddy system with my best friend from high school. We were in the same platoon in bootcamp. He was actually a reservist while I was active duty.

During my 5 years in the Corps, I never ran into anybody who was in my platoon in boot camp - except for him. He had gotten called up for Desert Storm and I bumped into him in chow line in the middle of the desert in Kuwait.

For the math geeks, there were roughly 200k active duty Marines at the time with another 200k reservists and roughly 70 in my bootcamp platoon.

[crazycoffey]

I was stationed with a guy in Ft lost in the woods he left for germany about a year before I did, I saw him twice around Germany in three years over there and once in Bosnia (though we weren't in the same unit)
Then I go to take a police test in the Dallas area who is taking the test at the same time? Yup, I got hired a few months before him, but we both end up at the same department six years after we first met. Then I activated my reserve status to go active reserves for a few years and it's with his unit.

Pretty cool guy too, but damn I think I finally shook him by moving to MO. I got my eye open for him though, you just never know.

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I joined the USMC on the buddy system with my best friend from high school. We were in the same platoon in bootcamp. He was actually a reservist while I was active duty.

During my 5 years in the Corps, I never ran into anybody who was in my platoon in boot camp - except for him. He had gotten called up for Desert Storm and I bumped into him in chow line in the middle of the desert in Kuwait.

For the math geeks, there were roughly 200k active duty Marines at the time with another 200k reservists and roughly 70 in my bootcamp platoon.

This just proves you spent a lot of time in the chow line. I already suspected that.

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

This just proves you spent a lot of time in the chow line. I already suspected that.

Marine Corps chow in the middle of the desert leaves something to be desired to be honest. I'd rather eat MRE's.

I seriously had to give a guy the heimlich because he tried to swallow a chunk of camel "steak" prior to chewing it for 10 minutes.

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Marine Corps chow in the middle of the desert leaves something to be desired to be honest. I'd rather eat MRE's.

I seriously had to give a guy the heimlich because he tried to swallow a chunk of camel "steak" prior to chewing it for 10 minutes.

That happened to me in Sarajevo (Bosnia) only I was the one choking. The buddy that helped me has the same name as my youngest......

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Marine Corps chow in the middle of the desert leaves something to be desired to be honest. I'd rather eat MRE's.

I seriously had to give a guy the heimlich because he tried to swallow a chunk of camel "steak" prior to chewing it for 10 minutes.

Really? We ate like Kings in South Korea in 1968. Midnight chow was particularly good. No lines and the cook would cook our eggs to order. So I lifted weights from 5-7 PM then to the NCO club to get drunk, then to midnight chow. I've never eaten better than that, ever.

It was horrible. There was nothing good about any of it. Powdered eggs, all that garbage.