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20 people share stories of things that happened at the exact right moment.

There are some experiences that only have their full effect if they happen at the precise right moment, not one second sooner and not one second later.Running into a long-lost friend on the street is only possible if you&#39;re both walking down the street at the same moment, while barely avoiding a fatal accident comes down to a matter of seconds. Which is to say, timing truly is everything, and these extreme examples only emphasize just how much a minute counts.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared stories of things that happened at the exact right moment. 1. From OP: Two years ago my wife and I took a quick weekend trip to St. Louis. There was an issue with the first hotel we had reservations at so we started making phone calls in the phone book to find a new one. We get one for a reasonable last minute rate, being unfamiliar with the area we approach the hotel and the first words I utter are Oh My God, we cannot stay here. Talk about sex worker motel, I&#39;m pretty sure there was one soliciting on the balcony above us.  She assures me that it wont be that bad, and we can find a new one tomorrow. We got our room, and she wanted to take a shower as we had been in the car all day driving, and we were going to go to dinner. We were making jokes about the hotel and its utter crappiness, seriously the parking garage tiles were falling down, there was trash everywhere, it was just a gross place. She had made a joke about there was probably a hole in the wall and somebody was watching us. No sh*t less than a minute later, shes stripping down to get in the shower, but a*s naked and her phone goes off, she gets a text message from an unknown number, the text I swear on my life said &quot;a hole in the wall&quot; she throws the phone on the bed and starts putting her clothes back on and starts crying out of pure terror.  She tells me to call the number, I&#39;m like f**k that, I aint calling it back. Lets get out of here. She picks up her phone and calls the number. Her friend answers the phone, she recognized the voice or something, I&#39;m not sure how, she asked her friend why she just text her &quot;a hole in the wall&quot; she replied, I&#39;m using my friends phone, and got your number mixed up with another friend sorry. We&#39;re at some bar, its a real hole in the wall.&quot; Funniest sh** ever once we realized the irony and purely magical timing of all the events. 2. From zarx: I was in college riding the elevator, and an acquaintance climbed aboard and asked me if I knew where to find a 250V, 2A, 3AG fuse.  I said &quot;as a matter of fact I do,&quot; and pulled the exact one out of my pocket, and handed it to him just before the elevator reached my floor.  He had no idea that I used them for an active project, and kept some in my pocket just in case. He was absolutely stunned, as were the other passengers. 3. From Lereas: I got into my car once after having driven to a different city. I flipped on the radio and all there was was silence. I shrugged and was about to change the channel, assuming it wasn&#39;t a valid station, when all of the sudden it said &quot;Daniel.&quot; This is my name, so I said &quot;yes?&quot; out of amusement, and the voice said &quot;I am the Lord your God, Daniel. You must follow my commandments&quot;. Another pause as I freaked the f**k out for a moment. Then the voice came back and was like &quot;and this is the part in the bible...&quot; and I realized that the classic hits channel in Cincinnati was a bible thumper channel in Bloomington :) 4. From tossit22:  I took my girlfriend of several years out of town on a romantic getaway a few years ago. I used to live in Chattanooga, so I knew all the right places to go, and planned everything out meticulously. I booked a really nice hotel, made reservations at a nice restaurant, and had everything set up to finally propose to her, with a gigantic ring I spent 6 months shopping for. We checked into the room, got ready, and went to that perfect restaurant, with a nice quiet nook upstairs, that I knew would be the perfect place.  Lo and behold, some damned sorority had filled almost the entire place, and we were up to our armpits in sluts in their finest! So, no go on the proposal, as we couldn&#39;t even hear each other. My hopes were dashed, and I scrambled for an alternate, but there was no saving it.  So, we eat dinner and leave, and decide to go across the street for coffee in this fancy, old timey shop. We&#39;re standing at the counter waiting for service, when I see the &quot;Trivia question of the day&quot; has yet to be answered.  The question was something like: &quot;What is the only item in an estate exempt from seizure during bankruptcy proceedings in every state?&quot; I&#39;m not a lawyer, but I guess right anyway. &quot;Is it a wedding ring?&quot; The coincidence is just crazy, so I proposed right there. I got a new wife, and a free cup of coffee. How great is that? 5. From Rytorres: My family was heading out to breakfast in downtown Seattle when we see a homeless person walk by with stringy curly hair. &quot;Wow Kenny G has fallen on hard times...&quot; we joked. We sat down for breakfast and in comes Kenny G and his entire family and sits down at the table next to us. Homeless-G was not with him. Edit: Picture from table at Lola 6. From Floonet: I was 4 years old, and it was 1989. I live in the California, Bay Area and it happened to be the day of the Loma Prieta Earthquake.  I was in the living room and my mom had told me to work on my writing, and I couldn&#39;t watch TV until I was done. I moaned and pouted about needing to see Garfield and Friends, and she said sternly: &#39;If you don&#39;t listen to me you&#39;ll be in real trouble&#39;. I stalked over to the table, mad as ever and started writing my words. After about 10-15 minutes of her being in the kitchen, I decided to go turn on the TV but keep the volume down. Feeling triumphant in my master plan, I approached the television, and just as I pushed the button the most earth shattering noises rang out, and the ground was trembling beneath my feet. My mom swooped me up yelling for my older sister to get outside. She dropped me on the lawn, ran back in for my aging grandmother.  It was all a blur really. But all the while this 4 year old girl thought she had caused all this chaos by touching the TV. I vomited I was so upset with myself. When we got back into the house, shelves were broken, lots of items scattered throughout the house. Neighbors were injured, it was on the news, and for two days I was utterly distraught. I thought I was the worst person on the planet.  At first my family chalked up my listlessness to pure fright from the quake. But finally my sister asked why I was still so upset, after telling her, she laughed so hard I wanted to strangle her. Within the hour my entire family knew and was fighting back laughter to comfort me. Thankfully I started to believe them and got over it. Being a four year old with a god complex sure is hard work. 7. From urbanplowboy: When I was in middle school, I was on the quiz team, and we would compete with other schools in the area. One day, one of the quizzers began asking a question, &quot;Violins...,&quot; and out of nervousness I pressed my buzzer accidentally. Crap. After a seemingly prolonged moment of fear from putting myself on the spot for a question I obviously can&#39;t answer, I say the first thing that came to my mind, &quot;horse hair,&quot; because I knew that violin bows were made from horse hair. After a brief pause of shock, the quizzer says, &quot;That&#39;s right...horse hair is the answer.&quot; The look on everyone&#39;s faces was spectacular. 8. From RickVince: This takes place about a decade ago, when I was a teenage pothead. We were hanging out in my living room and I was getting ready to call a dealer when I realized I was out of cash and so were my friends.  So I thought It&#39;d be funny if I dropped down to my knees, look up at the sky and said: &quot;oh lord we need your help getting stoned. Please lend us your help or give us a sign or something dude. Come on now.&quot;  My friends started cracking up and not more than a second passed before the doorbell rang. It was my elderly next-door neighbor with the 40 bucks she owed me for cutting her lawn. When I closed the door I remember the three of us just standing there, not saying a word. My friend on the left actually looked up. 9. From cedargrove: When I was in high school a few friends and I were over at our mormon friend&#39;s house. We were hanging out down in the basement and it had one of those windows that was flush with the ground level. Well our friend had been in the backyard for awhile and my buddy Jeff is wondering what is up so he cracks the window and says the guys name. You could tell he sort of heard but didn&#39;t know what to make of it so my friend said it again louder, and this guy has a pretty booming voice. Our friend Tim drops to his knees, looks up, and says in the most meek voice, &quot;God?&quot;. He was dead serious. 10. From synnamon: I was playing DOOM back in the day at lunchtime in the office with co-workers. We worked in a CAD office, so had monstrous CRT monitors. So my coworker, whom I am playing with, shoots a rocket launcher at my character in game, it hits, and at that exact moment my monitor made this god-aweful pop sound, went blank, and smoke started coming out the back. 11. From chterrible: Don&#39;t know if this counts as the same thing. I was in Mexico with a friend and we were walking down the street. I told him I could do a magic trick. I had a quarter on me and pulled it out to do the stupid hand magic trick where I pass the quarter from one hand to another. Mexico and the quarter were necessary factors of the right place at the right time because we only had pesos on us besides that. We hadn&#39;t been to the US in a while and we knew that I only had that one quarter on me because it came up in a previous conversation.  He was walking a good three feet away from me and watching the trick. Well I missed my catch for the trick completely screwing it up, but the quarter flew over, hit his belt loop and slid into his pocket. He didn&#39;t see that even though he was watching my hands for the trick. I opened my hands and no quarter and I told him to check his pocket. He sh** bricks and to this day I haven&#39;t told him the secret of my powers. He asks me to tell him or do it again for him every so often. Of course I can&#39;t but I always tell him I won&#39;t....I&#39;ll tell him someday. 12. From ryskt: My father and I were golfing on a hot summer day in Tucson, AZ back when I was a teenager. Usually, the course we were playing was fairly empty mid-days on a weekday so we were allowed to play by ourselves. For some reason that day, it was pretty crowded and we were paired up in a foursome with an older gentleman named Raymond (Ray) and his friend.  Ray was one of those old guys that liked to tell stories, most of which we thought were wildly embellished or just full of shit. He told us early in the round that he was an old pro and had hit 21 holes-in-one in his lifetime. We had listened to most of his jabber up to this point with a polite smile on our faces and pretended to believe him... but 21 holes-in-one was too much and my dad told Ray he was full of it. Ray countered with something like &quot;You don&#39;t have to believe me, it doesn&#39;t matter to me.&quot;  A few holes later, on a par 3 everyone had teed off and we were sitting in the shade of the cart while Ray went up to the tee. He lined himself up, took a practice swing and then hit the ball. It bounced twice and went in the hole. Ray turned and looked at my dad, without saying anything he held his hand up and flashed two fingers, twice... &quot;22.&quot; 13. From mathmavin99: One time, way back in middle school, I was hanging out with one of my friends. Now, we&#39;re both fairly youngish, and prone to doing weird and random things. We were both sitting down, and I happened to be facing away from him. I decided that then was as good of a time as any to whirl around at him and shove my palm at him, shouting, &quot;I HAVE THE FORCE!&quot; Of course, he also picked the exact same moment to throw a ping pong ball at him. Needless to say, we were both rather shocked when I spin around without warning and hit the ping pong ball square in the middle of my palm and back over his shoulder while yelling about my mystical abilities. TL;DR: I spin around randomly and block a ball out of the air while shouting that I have the force. 14. From shperk: When I was about 16, my mom took me and my brother to an Astros game. We were sitting on the bottom level on the third base side. Halfway through the game, after seeing a few balls hit to various levels of the stadium, we talked about what we&#39;d do if a player hit one into our area. Because I was 16 and therefore bada*s, I said boastfully that I would just reach my hand up and catch it. Like a boss.  No exaggeration, about fifteen seconds after I said that, a player hit a hard line drive that hit me hard on the side of my head. It bounced off my head and landed two rows behind me. This little kid &quot;caught&quot; the ball and kept it. And thaaat&#39;s my liiife! 15. From kellymcneill: I was driving with my friend in Reno NV... Reno is essentially a mini Las Vegas. Gambling, shows, flashing lights etc...just smaller. Anyways, she proceeds to tell me that it was her birthday and that I forgot. Realizing my mistake as indeed I did forget, I told her that her birthday was the reason why I took her to Reno and that I had made big plans. Because I forgot, I realized I had better think quickly.  I figured I could take her to a show and then to a nice dinner. Even if I did forget, she doesn&#39;t have to know. I kept up with the charade figuring, &quot;shoot this is Reno, there is plenty to do&quot;, and then telling her, &quot;I have big things planned&quot;. I had then proceeded to roll down the window as it was really hot that day, then out of nowhere, a helium balloon had started descending from way out of the sky.  I said jokingly, &quot;see, I even orchestrated a balloon to fall from the sky for you.&quot; Then, (if I had not been there and seen it for myself I wouldn&#39;t have believed it), the balloon had floated right into my car window that I had just previously rolled down, and ironically enough had &quot;happy birthday&quot; inscribed upon it too! I later took her to the show and nice dinner I promised, but to this day she always regards that as one of the best birthdays she&#39;s ever had and remembers it primarily for the &quot;planned&quot; balloon. 16. From aroundlsu: I took a photograph at precisely the right moment that started my photography career and changed my life: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teddysmith/3889435455/sizes/l/ 17. From mottom24: The first couple weeks I was going out with my current girlfriend we went for a walk one night. It was a nice cool summer night so we decided to lay under a willow tree along the river. We talked for a bit before finally coming in for a kiss. The moment our lips met &quot;BAM!&quot; I look up and see fireworks going off above the museum of art. We just looked at eachother and laughed at the ridiculous movie moment we had. That&#39;s right, the moment we kissed fireworks literally went off. We never did figure out what they were actually for. 18. From skodi: Back in High School a bunch of us were killing time before a movie so we wandered over to the arcade in the mall. Naturally 4 of us gravitated to the D&amp;D game and started playing. About 10 minutes in, I look at the friend who is playing the elf and yell &quot;Hit the lightning bolt!&quot; He jams on the key and instantly a BOOM! rattles the building and all the power in the mall shuts off. Those anti-theft gates started coming down on all the stores and everything. We all look at each other, laugh maniacally and bolt from the store and the mall. To this day, when any of us need something big to happen we&#39;ll yell &quot;Hit the lightning bolt!&quot; 19. From freeall: I was driving and listening to one of my favorite bands. In one particular song the lead singer sings something like &quot;a short moment walking over the pedestrian crossing&quot;. And at that exact moment I stopped at a pedestrian crossing and she, the lead singer, walks by. My mouth was wide open. 20. From sethandtheswan: I was having a verbal fight with my girlfriend, my brother and my sister a block away from a train station in upstate New York, and I was getting really heated and began to raise my voice. The three of them were ganging up on me over a really stupid misunderstanding and it was making me furious. A train starts pulling up to the station - we can faintly hear wheels on tracks. My sister says something completely idiotic that totally sets me off and I turn to the three of them and incomprehensibly roar at the top of my lungs - at the exact moment that the train conductor pulled the train&#39;s horn. My roar and the horn started and stopped at the exact same time together. The three of them stood there, stunned. After a couple of seconds we burst into laughter and stopped fighting. 