Life has a funny way of looping back on us.

This man once had a strange childhood experience where he imitated another man’s actions while using the hand dryer.

The man watched him as he used the hand dryer when it was his turn.

Years later, while attending a psychology class, he heard a familiar story from his professor.

Check out the full story below to find out more.

Something I did as a kid ended up in a psychology lecture I sat in years later

When I was 7 or 8 years old, my family went on a road trip to another city a few hours away.

On the way, we stopped at a gas station where I used the restroom.

When I went to dry my hands, there was a man in front of me using an air hand dryer.

It was something I had never seen before.

This man recounted how he imitated another man in using the hand dryer when he was a young boy.

I watched him as he used the dryer so I could see how it was done.

I noticed that he was rubbing his hands together as he dried them.

That seemed a little weird, but I figured he knew what he was doing.

When I got up to the dryer I did it the same way, including rubbing my hands together.

I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the man was hanging around the door looking back at me.

He thought it was strange that the man watched him while he was drying his hands.

I probably wouldn’t have remembered the interaction at all.

Except it was a little off-putting that the man was looking back at me.

I didn’t think he had bad intentions or anything.

I just thought it was odd, and once I climbed back into the car, I shrugged it all off.

In college, he attended a psychology class where the professor narrated a familiar story.

Fast forward 12 or 13 years, I’m sitting in a psychology course in college.

It was abnormal psychology, I think, but I took 4 or 5 of them so I’m not entirely sure.

The professor is talking about the “Monkey see, monkey do” phenomenon.

He mentions that he once performed his own experiment at a gas station restroom.

He says that he noticed a young boy watching him use a hand dryer.

He rubbed his hands together to see if the boy would do it also.

He peeked back before he left and saw that the young boy was indeed mimicking the hand rubbing.

He was stunned to hear about the experience he had when he was younger.

I was stunned.

I had completely forgotten about that time when I was a kid and noticed the man watching me dry my hands.

But here I was, many years later and hundreds of miles away from where it had happened, listening to the same story in a psychology class.

It was unbelievable.

The few people I’ve told this to in the years since haven’t seemed to react nearly as strongly as I did.

But it must be the biggest coincidence I’ve ever come across in my life.

Let’s see how others reacted to this story.

We are all curious!

Yes, indeed!

This user shares their personal thoughts.

Here’s a valid point, too.

Finally, this is really wild, says this one.

Some coincidences are so unbelievable.

If you liked that story, check out this post about an oblivious CEO who tells a web developer to “act his wage”… and it results in 30% of the workforce being laid off.