Not precisely the same thing, but this unsettled me when I was seven years old.

One afternoon I was sitting in the car turning over my collection of baseball cards and turned up Dee Fondy, first baseman for the Chicago Cubs.

At that *very moment* the radio announced that Dee was coming to bat against the Giants. Whoa!!

Then there was a non-coincidence of note. One day I was walking down the street when the name of Dante popped into my head. No reason. And I almost never thought of Dante. A white panel truck then whipped around the corner bearing the single word "DANTE" on the side. In red. There was no way I could have seen it coming. I was impressed.

I was less impressed months later, however, when I realized from seeing a similar truck that what had looked like "DANTE" at a vulnerable moment was really "DANITE," the name of a local corporation.