The random and bizarre world we live in

I took Alice earlier today to spend the last of her birthday money and we ended up at a video game place near our house. She wanted to get the same game as one Matthew had so they could play in tandem or something, so she picked out a used sims 2 pets, as well as another used game to play.

When Alice took it out to play it, she asked me if Matthew had put his initials on her game. I told her no, why would he since he had his own? Then she looked at the game file names when it booted up. Often there will be a pre-existing file when you buy the game used. 2 of the slots had games in them and they were exactly like the ones Matthew had in his.

We have concluded that Matthew must have somehow left his game behind in the temp apartment, even though we checked everything several times before turning in the keys, and the next people in there found it and sold it to the game store. Matthew did tell me that he hadn't seen his game in a while, and it is very likely he didn't store it in the case like he should have.

But how random is that?! Of all the used games, we grab the one on the shelf that once belonged to Matthew in the first place! What are the odds of that happening?! It is, of course, Alice's game now, fair and square. Matthew thought it was really weird and funny, and Alice has told him that she'd share the game with him when he wanted to play it once in a while. I guess the up side is that since Matthew used to own this game, there are game manuals in the house for it! When you buy used, you don't normally get the manual, unless the person selling the game includes it.