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* In ''[[The Windup Girl]]'' by [[Paolo Bacigalupi]], Emiko is running for her life and looks certain to be killed when Anderson Lake ''just happens to be'' riding past in his rickshaw and rescues her.
* Robert Sheckley's ''[[Mindswap]]''. That method of looking for Ze Kraggash actually pays off. Somewhat.
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** And in the film, they just happen to apparate right in the middle of of a group of snatchers.
** This happens in favor of the villains in the background of ''Goblet of Fire''. Pettigrew decides to stop at an inn on the way to meeting Voldemort, and runs into a Ministry official who happens to know the location of a loyal Death Eater,
* In [[Dan Simmons]]' ''[[Ilium]]'' and ''Olympos'' this is justified and deconstructed. Everyone lives close to the teleporters all across the planet because there is no need to go very far from them. The unfortunate result is that they've managed to forget about the entire rest of the planet.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: In Fielding's ''[[Tom Jones]]'', characters who are travelling separately are forever running into each other at [[You All Meet in An Inn|inns]] along the road. Critics have tried to [[Justified Trope|justify]] these remarkably convenient coincidences by making learned references to the average speed of a stagecoach and the density of coaching inns along the major roads in Georgian England.
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