I hate deja vu.

I get it a lot which suggests neurons aren't working quite as they should and a message gets split across two routes and one gets to the destination before the other - creating the deja vu experience.

Thing is, there have been gaps of more than a few seconds where I have experienced it.

Freaky!

A friend was driving in Scotland near Elgin on holiday (he lives and went to school on the South Coast).

He has a minor accident with a van. The driver was another school friend that moved to Scotland 35 odd years previously!

I don't believe in co-incidences.

I was born in England after the 2ndWW and, unlike most humans past and present, have enjoyed over 70yrs of peace, prosperity and good plumbing with no interludes of war, plague, famine or persecution. How lucky is that?

badbus driver point about identical cars crashing reminded me of something from the distant past. I think it was Audi who used to have a system of cables that in a major frontal impact pulled the engine back in someway. Obviously not to the detriment of the cabin safety but to absorb impact. The story sometime afterwards was that the system had never been deployed in a real accident when two Audis met head on. As is usual in these passing stories I never did hear when the inevitable accidents did happen. Does anyone recall the system and the story or have I dream it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procon-ten

I was daydreaming in the office many years ago and saw a blue VW Polo crash into some railings in Central Croydon. The driver emerged and ran away. Later that day, my mother called to say that a policeman was looking at her blue VW polo on the driveway, 10 miles away. Apparently, her car had been "cloned". What are the chances?

Quite high, judging from the number of rotating number plates for sale on the internet!