'They've been married for decades. All because he wrote a phone number down wrong.'
Now, in case you don't know what the butterfly effect is, it basically means that small or even insignificant events can cause much bigger effects down the line.The term was coined by MIT professor Edward Lorenz, who suggested that a single flap of a butterfly's wing could eventually cause a tornado.
"Nobody died that day, but if my grandmother had have gone to her usual dry cleaners she would almost certainly have been injured.""Growing up, I hated being dragged to church every Sunday by my ultra-religious Catholic mother. I would make up reasons not to go, and on a particular Sunday afternoon, I took a very long 'nap' and refused to get up, forcing her to stay home instead.
"He knew what floor she worked on and spent the whole day believing she had died. It wasn’t till that night that she was able to get ahold [of] him and tell him she was alright.""Me and my ex-friends were supposed to go to Florida for the weekend, and I found out my dad's older brother passed. The day and time we were supposed to arrive at the airport, we heard about some guy shooting up arrivals and baggage area. This was 2016. Our lives were saved by the passing of my uncle.
"Good thing, too. Because the club was The Cocoanut Grove, and that was the night a massive fire broke out there, burning the club down and killing nearly 500 people. So there was a VERY good chance they could have perished as well — and I would probably not be writing this right now.""Everything about my life is a consequence of my mom dying when I was 14.
"I ended up meeting the man I married at that job, and we have a beautiful daughter. All because my coworker begged me to have a drink and I found that random old newspaper.""I was in San Fransisco for a work conference . Anyway, while at this conference I decided to visit a famous martial arts school . I ended up missing the class by the time I got there, but a student in the class asked if I'd like to go to a party with him and his fellow students.