this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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What are the odds that someone who enjoys reading & writing as a hobby (forums like Lemmy attract such people), also has the perfect anecdote to accompany OP's comic ๐ค Well-written & detailed & several details seem highly unlikely.
I sense creative fiction here.
When we consider how many people there are who are seeing a large number of posts over time, then it becomes inevitable that there will be occasional coincidences like this. I know that I have personally experienced a few instances where a post presented the perfect opportunity to regale people with a story of something incredibly improbable that happened to me.
There are also a few of those instances where I have had practice writing about them, because that kind of thing can help with trauma processing.
Ultimately, we can't know, but for harmless things like this, I tend to prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt