The greatest thing that ever happened just happened...

[King Kool]

I was flipping around some videos, and I put on The Deal to see who was in it. I went and loaded the podcast for The Deal, but clicked the wrong button and the tab with the video loaded another page. The podcast started playing in its popup, and I hit the back button to bring The Deal back on, and I hit it at just the right time so that the second half of the LRR theme in the podcast and the theme in the video played COMPLETELY IN SYNC.

Nothing that awesome will ever happen ever again. Pack up the Internets and lets go home.

A lesser example of something like this: once I had a toy lightsaber and flicked it out when someone across the room I couldn't see disconnected a pneumatic hose, so it made a "fsssss" when the blade came out.

Share your stories of unbelievable and unintentional luck.

[Annchan]

you call that luck?

-^_^-

[Corax]

crit rockets

[Zombaholic]

crit rockets

This

[Graham]

In high school I was involved in Stagecraft, which meant building the sets and running the shows.
We were doing West Side Story, and the set called for a great deal of chain-link fencing to be hung from a scaffold.

An older student who had been giving us all a hard time for our various failings as techs spent the better part of 45 minutes up a ladder with zip-ties, affixing this fencing to the metal bar at the top of the scaffold.

After this he got down to admire his work, and was able to utter the priceless:
"That ain't going nowh--"
Before it came rushing to the ground with a thunderous crash.

Turns out plastic zip-ties can't hold up that much weight.

[Evil Jim]

Many years ago back when I was still living with my parents I walked into the living room one evening while my parents were watching the news. They cut live to the local Pick 3 lottery drawing, complete with ping-pong balls blowing around in a glass box. Thinking myself clever I quickly blurted out, "Zero! Six! Eight!", the first three digits of my Nintendo Power membership number. (I told you this was a while ago.)

So they start drawing the numbers & the first one was none other than a zero. This caught my parents attention. A couple seconds later the next ping-pong ball was six. Now all of us were glued to the screen. They drew the third & final number & what was it but eight!

My parents were bug-eyed & I probably was too. I think my mom said something to the effect of "Why didn't you tell us this before so I could have gotten a ticket?" Now that I'm old enough to buy my own I wish I could do it again.




By the way, my full Nintendo Power membership number is: 06817807-8. It's long expired. I don't know why I still remember it.

[DmitriW]

By the way, my full Nintendo Power membership number is: 06817807-8. It's long expired. I don't know why I still remember it.

Because you entered their contests, probably. You needed to write the membership number on the form.

[Evil Jim]

Because you entered their contests, probably. You needed to write the membership number on the form.

Yeah. I entered every dang one of those things. Never won anything, tho' I'm happy you saw through my little ruse.

[Hakaryu]

Because you entered their contests, probably. You needed to write the membership number on the form.

Yeah. I entered every dang one of those things. Never won anything, tho' I'm happy you saw through my little ruse.

I don't like your ruse sir.
Your cunning attempt to trick me


( gotta love clerks)

[teh_steve]

Sadly not a personal experience... But here goes anyway.
Friend of a friend was attending her first year of medical school in order to train to become a doctor. As part of this they need to know all manner of surgical and medical things, and as we all know from scrubs, surgery is essentially just a form of sport that needs to be repeatedly practiced until you get it right. As such, ALL freshers are handed a corpse and a scaple.
Don't worry, we haven't got any neo-frankestein-gothic-emo's running around the countryside with spades, these individuals have donated their bodies to medical science.
Anyway, So this friend of a friend, hungover and blurry-eyed, set to work with a scalple on this recently deceased old woman, despite the sheer disgust with which she did so.
Beside her a girl began to cry.
My friend of a friend turned to this young woman and goes "Mate, I know, it's horrible, and I'm f*cked from the night before as well but..."
"Nono... you don't understand" the girl sobbed between floods of tears, puzzling my friend. "that's my grandmother"...


Dude...

Apparently, due to various last name changes the university had made... something of a mistake...

*reads title of this thread*
Shit, might make me seem a little sick having put that under "greatest thing to ever happen ever..."

[Tapir12]

I was volunteering one summer at the museum (I'm cool) and the director was telling me how our cannons needed maintenance. He said that there was a specialist in cannons from that period, but that he lived in Nova Scotia. He asked if I could call or email him to get some information.

Just then the phone rang and we were told there was someone downstairs who would like to talk to the museum staff. The director sent me down to greet the guy, and lo and behold it was the cannon expert from Nova Scotia, here on vacation and stopping by because he saw our cannons.

Weirdest thing I've ever experienced.

[Dominic Appleguard]

In high school I was involved in Stagecraft

Wahay so was I.
My school despised arts of any kind, however, so the tech crew for one of the shows I did basically consisted of me and a French Canadian bloke people just called "the Troll".
After that I moved on to acting; still very little support from the school, but fewer trolls.

[the amativeness]

In high school I was involved in Stagecraft

Wahay so was I.

This amuses me, as I am a theatre technician by trade (Lighting Rocks!)

[Evil Jim]

I watched "Monster House" with some friends tonite. Near the beginning one of the characters says "In one day & three hours it'll be candy time!" I look up at the clock & by golly, we were exactly one day & three hours from Hallowe'en.

[dark_realm]

i was at a party when i was around 19, my mates had winamp on random. for 5 songs id yell out at the end of the song what the next band was going to be and it would be right. i was god for one night!

[Emperor Gum]

I used to play the radio when I walked home from school, and they always seemed to play Knights of Cydonia at about that time. One time I was playing the song in my head, turned the radio on and it was completely in sinc. The best thing was it was the exact start of the guitar riff at the 'chorus'. Yeah!

[Fuzzyfreaker]

I frequently use my iPod when walking to class (good music and keeps my ears warm). Well, this one day I met up with a friend who was on her way to the same building, and we got to talking. Well, somehow through all this the topic of bands came up, and she mentioned she liked The Fratellis. We had some time before class started (we were there at that point), so I handed her an earphone, and the moment before I pulled my iPod out to switch out of shuffle, Baby Fratelli came on, the ONLY song I had by The Fratellis. (It's on the Layer Cake soundtrack). Keep in mind at this point I had around 9200 songs on that thing.

Craaaazzzzyyy stuff.

[Scone]

I exactly finished (no excess dumping to make this happen) my bottle of laundry detergent on my last load of laundry at the conclusion of one year at college. It was Epic.