Re: Fortune Telling
Lemme tell you something that happened to me just a couple of weeks ago. I was walking towards my car to renew my parking coupon coz expired. An Indian man dressed like those gurus came from the pavement and raised his hand and greeted me. "Hello Sir, I see that you have good fortune."
Straightaway alarm bells rang. But since I had a bit of time, I thought why not, and decided to humour him a bit, and see what this guy's up to.
So I greeted him back, he asked for my name. Then from a little booklet folio he was carrying, he scribbled something on a slip of paper, crushed it into a tiny ball, and asked me to keep secure in my fist. Then he began to say sentences that will seem zun to just about anyone.
"You work very hard, but your superiors do not see your efforts." (hahah so not true for me, true for 99% of population)
"You like to start your own business, but you do not have the opportunity"
"You like to earn more money, and you feel that your pay is not enough for the work that you do."
etc etc
Then he started to give predictions and advise, like
"You will come into big money by mid july"
"Do not cut your hair on thursdays"
etc
All the while I just stood there to listen and humour him. And all the while as we were talking he was pretending to scribble something on his notebook. Then just as he felt that I was under his spell already, he started to ask me my age. So I said 32. He scribbled it down. He asked me to pick a number between 5 to 9. I picked 5. He scribbled that down too.
Then he gestured for me to open my fist, and then took the paper ball and demonstrated once, "put it on your forehead like this, and say Fortune will come to me 3 times."
So I took the paper ball back, and pretended to follow what he did. Then he said, "If your 32 and 5 are on the paper, fortune will come to you. Open and see!"
So I opened, and lo and behold, 32 and 5 are indeed written on the paper ball which I had kept in my fist the whole time!!! It's a miracle!!! He has supernatural powers!
Then he opened up his booklet folio, put it in front of me and said "Now you put money inside"
Obviously I said no. But I said it politely no I will not. "Why not? Paper write the same thing you said" But I said, no I will still not put any money. After asking for about 3 times, he gave up and walked away.
I almost said to him "Paper touch forehead, come back not same paper, no money for you" But decided not to pichah his lobang until like that, after all he seems quite harmless. He doesnt know I got watch David Blaine on TV so I know the tricks, and the way the switcharoo paper ball felt different than the one I had in my fist for a long time coz no 2 crushed paper balls can ever feel the same. But it was a very unique experience hehe..
