Nineteen and other coincidences...

[Ves'Ka Gan]

We were used paperback shopping to find my roommate book 2 of TDT (mine are all in storage) and we came across a slew of Stephen King hardcovers. She didn't have any of them and a few were ones I hadn't read so we picked them up--the total??? 19 dollars. *twilight zone music*.

[alinda]

Ok, really happened, on the way home from work I pass a sign that indicates my town is 19 miles away, it is situated at a traffic light. This particular evening as I was looking at that sign for the millionth time I noticed there was an ambulance at the signal with me
the number painted on the side panel? 19.

[Letti]

You know I have moved lately.
As I was coming home from work suddenly I saw this (I stopped and I had to watch it for awhile):



Anyway the board says
Zita
Women Fashion

[3 DOORS DOWN]

I was 19years old when i first read the gunslinger,never made the
connection till i had finished book 7 ,what 2o or so years later.

[Brian]

I am rereading the series for the third time now.I stopped for a few months to read other things but when I would stop reading DT it seemed that all I would see is 19 and other references from the series all the time.Only when I would start them again is when it would taper off a little.weird huh

[alinda]

I almost expected your post # to add up to 19 on that one

[MaXx Ka-Tet 19]

1 of my classes has 19 students in it

[Brice]

Small coincidence: I've been working my roommates store a little on the side lately. Next door to it is a burnt out hull of a building that is now just a vacant lot with the front frame of the building. Yesterday I stepped through the doorway into it and looked to my right and saw a three or four foot section of what apparently used to be a mural untouched by the flames. The part that was untouched was mostly roses.

[Jackie]

I remember [not specificly] when i would be reading a part in one of the books and i would have the tv on and a comercial would come on relating to what i was reading

[ladykatherine]

I've been waiting to see a thread like this!!
I feel, personally, that I was going insane after starting the dt series with the amount of coincidences I noticed. Kinda like after seeing 23 haha.

But for one, I noticed I started the series on the 19th of June this year (it was a bad day, so I remember it well). Then noticed that my brother and my full names both have 19 letters each. And I swear, on the way back to school this fall I noticed street signs like "blaine lane" and stores like Cort's Furniture for the first time in two years!! Not to mention the oddest is the reoccurence of finding "delgado" in the strangest places. For example, I was moving a friend into her apartment off-campus and saw her next door neighbor's name was Sam Delgado. Crazy...I just get freaked out whenever I see that!! Of course, I know it's only happening because I'm probably unconsciously looking for it...

too bad though.

[Letti]

I've been waiting to see a thread like this!!
I feel, personally, that I was going insane after starting the dt series with the amount of coincidences I noticed. Kinda like after seeing 23 haha.

But for one, I noticed I started the series on the 19th of June this year (it was a bad day, so I remember it well). Then noticed that my brother and my full names both have 19 letters each. And I swear, on the way back to school this fall I noticed street signs like "blaine lane" and stores like Cort's Furniture for the first time in two years!! Not to mention the oddest is the reoccurence of finding "delgado" in the strangest places. For example, I was moving a friend into her apartment off-campus and saw her next door neighbor's name was Sam Delgado. Crazy...I just get freaked out whenever I see that!! Of course, I know it's only happening because I'm probably unconsciously looking for it...

too bad though.

Why is it so bad? I would enjoy it. I mean I do whenever I meet one.

Small coincidence: I've been working my roommates store a little on the side lately. Next door to it is a burnt out hull of a building that is now just a vacant lot with the front frame of the building. Yesterday I stepped through the doorway into it and looked to my right and saw a three or four foot section of what apparently used to be a mural untouched by the flames. The part that was untouched was mostly roses.

It must have been touching. You should have taken a pic of it. Were they wild roses?

[hoin1585]

My student number:81037

8+1+0+3+7=19

My birthday in 2008(The year I've finished The Dark Tower):2008/3/6

2+0+0+8+3+6=19

My member name:hoin1585(I swear that I didn't know DT when I first created the member in this name on Yahoo)

1+5+8+5=19

[Brice]

I've been waiting to see a thread like this!!
I feel, personally, that I was going insane after starting the dt series with the amount of coincidences I noticed. Kinda like after seeing 23 haha.

But for one, I noticed I started the series on the 19th of June this year (it was a bad day, so I remember it well). Then noticed that my brother and my full names both have 19 letters each. And I swear, on the way back to school this fall I noticed street signs like "blaine lane" and stores like Cort's Furniture for the first time in two years!! Not to mention the oddest is the reoccurence of finding "delgado" in the strangest places. For example, I was moving a friend into her apartment off-campus and saw her next door neighbor's name was Sam Delgado. Crazy...I just get freaked out whenever I see that!! Of course, I know it's only happening because I'm probably unconsciously looking for it...

too bad though.

Why is it so bad? I would enjoy it. I mean I do whenever I meet one.

Small coincidence: I've been working my roommates store a little on the side lately. Next door to it is a burnt out hull of a building that is now just a vacant lot with the front frame of the building. Yesterday I stepped through the doorway into it and looked to my right and saw a three or four foot section of what apparently used to be a mural untouched by the flames. The part that was untouched was mostly roses.

It must have been touching. You should have taken a pic of it. Were they wild roses?

If I recall correctly they were growing in between the cracks of a stone wall in the remainder of the mural. The only thing else you could see was a tree in the background. I didn't think to take a picture.

[Hbgunslinger]

Started reading the series at age 19. East Brookfield a town over from me has both a Blaine Ave and a Flagg Rd. Blaine Ave is only maybe 400 yards away from train tracks.

[tjglos]

whilst driving home from work tonight i saw bright yellow lorry with "discordia" written in 5 foot letters down the side and back. i crapped myself. just glad it was yellow not crimson

[gsvec]

A lame one, but I was just watching Deal Or No Deal and said to myself that the big $ was in case #19 . . . and it was!

[ladykatherine]

I've been waiting to see a thread like this!!
I feel, personally, that I was going insane after starting the dt series with the amount of coincidences I noticed. Kinda like after seeing 23 haha.

But for one, I noticed I started the series on the 19th of June this year (it was a bad day, so I remember it well). Then noticed that my brother and my full names both have 19 letters each. And I swear, on the way back to school this fall I noticed street signs like "blaine lane" and stores like Cort's Furniture for the first time in two years!! Not to mention the oddest is the reoccurence of finding "delgado" in the strangest places. For example, I was moving a friend into her apartment off-campus and saw her next door neighbor's name was Sam Delgado. Crazy...I just get freaked out whenever I see that!! Of course, I know it's only happening because I'm probably unconsciously looking for it...

too bad though.

Why is it so bad? I would enjoy it. I mean I do whenever I meet one.

Small coincidence: I've been working my roommates store a little on the side lately. Next door to it is a burnt out hull of a building that is now just a vacant lot with the front frame of the building. Yesterday I stepped through the doorway into it and looked to my right and saw a three or four foot section of what apparently used to be a mural untouched by the flames. The part that was untouched was mostly roses.

It must have been touching. You should have taken a pic of it. Were they wild roses?

Oh no! I meant 'too bad' as in 'too bad it was probably happening because I was forcing the coincidences'! No, I think it's really cool when it happens. Though I never around anyone that would understand why I suddenly gasp when I have a moment...hahaha!!
Katie

[BlaineTheChooChooTrain]

After reading this thread I did some thinking.

The first time I read The Gunslinger I was 16 and was in the middle of what ended up being 19 days in a juvenile detention facility, for shooting out 19 street lamps (it was really 23 but I was charged with 19 (bad bad kids I know))

When I re-discovered the series I was 19, I lived in 1801 blackstone ave, zip code was 23842 (2+3+8+4+2=19).

[Hbgunslinger]

I forgot after I first post here that there is a road in Brimfield, Ma named Tower Hill Rd. too.

[ladykatherine]

wow blaine, that was insane.
(omg that rhymed! hehehe)
but seriously...wow.
LadyK

[Hbgunslinger]

I'm in the process of a re-read and just noticed one of the roads named in the book in Maine is Slab City Rd. There is a road by the same name in North Brookfield which is next to East Brookfield with the Blaine Ave and Flagg Road. Only about a half a mile from Blaine Ave.

[Jean]

[Hbgunslinger]

Damned work computers don't let me see the pictures. lol

[DettaDelgado]

I was watching volleyball in the olympics a few months ago, and I had just downloaded the song "19" to my mp3 player. I hadn't heard the song before, I chose it for the title. When I pressed play and the song started I looked up and the score was 19:19.

[mystima]

my 19th birthday was in 1991