Often times you hear a story that sounds just like another experience you have had, but with subtle differences.  Like the guy with a trunk full of Krispy Kreme's.  One guy makes money and the other loses money, but both cars reek of doughnuts. A couple guys take shots of Malort, but one ends up with a belly full of gravy, and the other experiences the horror that is Canadian anger.  Lives are full of these parallel story lines, but from the other side they can seem very different.