Family stories, do you have a favorite one or more?

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I have many favorite family stories and I love to tell them all, but I will only tell you this one for now: My Father was 21 years younger than one of his brothers who was getting married the week he was born. He was a menopause baby. He was so poor, he had to eat whatever he found as a kid (frog legs, berries, etc.). For many years, he lived in misery for a variety of reasons. Finally, one of his much older sisters (like 15 years) got a job and started to help take care of him. They became very close. She was more like his Mom than his Mom was, and he never got along with his Father for many reasons. Anyway, we would not go to see his sister for months at a time due to the weather. When the weather became good, we would pile into a car and go see her. We would get there and the oldest daughter or son would come out and say, "Mom and Dad just went to see you. Mom suddenly decided to go." So we would go back home and find a note on our door, "Sorry we missed you." This happened time and time again. So after the third time, I told Dad to call her because this was getting ridiculous. We were always going and never getting to see her. Plus we would leave and miss them again. I never got to see my Aunt, my Uncle and we would turn around and quickly leave, so I only got a glimpse and a couple of words from my Cousins (their kids). So Dad picked up the phone and called. Busy signal. I said, "Oh, let me call." I did. The oldest daughter answered the phone, "Mom just tried to call you guys, but you had a busy signal." Of course, I told her that Dad was trying to call her Mom. So I told her that the next time, they decide to call each other, one of us (me or the daughter) should try to call. I believe that they had the same idea pop into their heads at the same time or close to the same time, finished dialing at the same moment, and canceled each other out. It took someone else doing the calling to stop this. We never spoke of this. It just was. My Mother would have gotten upset if I had said anything. So none of us said anything. There were other interesting "coinsidences" (in quotes because many people don't believe in coincidences). So do you have a good story concerning someone in your family to tell? What is it?