h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here is my favourite coincidence story; take it as you will

My aunt and I were visiting my grandmother about six months after my grandfather died. I had driven over to her house in the gigantic 1980 Chevy Malibu Station Wagon that Grandpa had left me. It was huge. It was old. It still had the original stereo: AM Only. I could get two stations that played music on it, though; one played big band jazz and the other played pop songs from about 1976 - 1984. I was listening to the latter of these two stations on the way over because remarkably enough, after almost two weeks of static on that station, the music was coming through with crystal clear reception that day.

Inside the house, I found my aunt mucking about with my grandpa's old transistor radio. She said she was looking for the polka station that Grandpa always had playing when he was in the kitchen. She'd gone up and down the AM and FM dials for about 15 minutes to no avail. Grandma said that ever since Grandpa died, she could never find the polkas on the radio again, not even on the stations he had marked on the dial.

So eventually, we gave up on the radio and just chatted the afternoon away. As supper time approached we pondered getting a pizza, but since my house was only a mile away and I had a pizza in the freezer there, I offered to go home and get it. My aunt said she'd come along for the ride.

We got in Grandpa's old station wagon, the radio still tuned to a station I'd only ever heard play pop songs from 1976 - 1984, and which was getting clear reception for the first time in about two weeks...

And there were polkas playing on the radio!

I don't know how my aunt and I managed to ride from Grandma's house to mine and back again, because we were both laughing so hard tears were rolling down our cheeks!