Thanks for getting an awful song stuck in my head at 7in the morning. :/
@MaryChristmas
Just for that, 'Oh lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz '
@MaryChristmas I
I'm sorry?
MY Adopted Daughter (actually my wife's neice) married her long time girlfriend last year and they moved in to a house in the village of Brandon in county Durham, a place I thought seemed faintly familiar from my genealogical researches. I mentioned this to my father and he laughed saying "Yes you should know it, your Granddad was born there" he then asked me the full address and when I gave it he told me the apartment block they live in was built over the street house that his father was born in, that was demolished in the 1960s.
I knew a ranch hand years ago and somehow my birthday came up. He said that used to be his birthday.
It turned out he saw his birth certificate when he was a teenager and he'd been celebrating the wrong day for years.
That's obviously not quite as unlikely, but still.
@MaryChristmas
I have a nephew (once removed?) and also the adopted son of a friend like that and they're both named Ben.
I guess life can be strange like that. Ha, ha.