Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction, and this story is the perfect example of this.
You might find this story hard to believe, but the author swears by it’s validity.
Regardless, the sheer coincidence and the dramatic turn of events left an unforgettable mark on everyone involved.
Read on to find out what happens!
Insane coincidence ruins a friendship
It happened around 1989 in Alabama.
I was about 19 and I had two good friends named Brian.
I will call them Good Brian and Bad Brian (BB).
The author sets the scene for us.
I was young and stupid and trusting…
So when Bad Brian was getting married he asked me to use my credit card to secure the hotel room.
He promised me they would never charge it.
I said ok, but was still suspicious, so I transposed some numbers and the expiration date, close enough where I could say it was an accident.
He gets married, and no issue.
The author goes on with their life.
Two years later, I bought a BBGun off of a mail order catalog something like GGG Sales.
They are not in business anymore, but they used to sell Freon powered BBGuns.
What arrives is the wrong item, and I call them and they don’t have them in stock, but I can exchange it for anything else in their catalog.
It turns out they were like 45 miles away which was a neighboring state (FL).
But then the strangeness starts.
I drive over there and am talking to them, looking at the other things they have and while I am standing there, a guy answers the phone and starts taking an order, and is saying the name while he is writing it down on the form.
It is my name. But with an address much closer to Florida then I live.
The author decides to intervene, catching the employee off guard.
While he is writing down the credit card info, I walk in front of him and put my drivers license on top of the form.
The employee is irritated because he does not realize what I am trying to show him, and tries to continue with the order.
I point to the name on the license and he stops.
I know who it is trying to place an order using my card because I had only given my credit card info to one person.
The employee begins to understand. Now it’s time for the author to act.
I motion to the man to hand me the phone and after a little reluctance, he does.
I simply say “Hi Brian. What the h*** are you doing?”
I could almost hear his mind explode as he recognized my voice.
I mean, here it was two years later, he decides to use my credit card and I am in another state in that store at the same time, picking up the phone?!?
Boom!!!
The author tells their “friend” what’s going to happen next.
I tell him I am going to stop by his house (his new address was on the order form) and I want the original paper he wrote my info down on, and any copies he had.
I stopped by, he handed them to me, and it was everything I could do to keep myself from getting physical…
Their friend still can’t comprehend the sheer happenstance of it.
The whole time he had a dazed look on his face like he did not understand how this happened.
I never talked to him again, but have thought of how insane the coincidence was.
I just happened to be in the same place at the same time he was using my credit card, and was close enough to hear him say my name…
Crazy.
I know the revenge was petty, but in my mind I left him with a supernatural fear of me or at least that there is someone always watching…
Let’s hope this supernatural coincidence prevents Bad Brian from ever trying a scheme like this again.
What did Reddit think?
This user points out that there’s one thing that could have made this petty revenge even sweeter,
This redditor can relate to having a killer intuition.
Sometimes a bad deed being caught seems to be written in the stars.
This user has a feeling this experience is going to stick with Bad Brian.
It seems like the author’s guardian angel had his back that day.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time!
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