Strange coincidences and psychic predictions inevitably stir up colourful conversations around m
y house.
My wife and sister-in-law were talking over the weekend about their psychic visits and which psychics are “good” and which are not. They both have visited psychics and recount with entertained awe the predictions that have come true. “A light haired woman, associated with a man in your life, will have someone close to them suffer a life-threatening illness within three (days, months, or years).” Vague predictions like these are bound to come true. With enough vague predictions bantered about in a $20 session, the ones that can be interpreted later as having been fulfilled are remembered and the others are discounted or forgotten. Can you sense that I’m a skeptic?
My wife even convinced me to go to a psychic on one occasion. My own vision of the future came true. I predicted that I would waste a twenty dollar bill. 
Actually, the psychic (some gay guy, I don’t remember his name) told me that I would have some legal battles over a vehicle incident in a parking lot and also indicated some legal struggles regarding my son. Both these things did kind of come true, but as I said, there are many other things he said that I either don’t remember or have never come to realization. (I’m a hard nut to crack, eh?)
I never did understand completely the usefulness of a psychic that couldn’t tell you the lottery numbers. So what if they tell you that you will “travel over water” or “some dark haired person in your life will have a baby in the next 2 years”. What’s funny though, is that one of the psychics my wife has seen, Shelley Stokes, is associated with locating the bodies of a couple missing in St. John’s since 1993! Now, that’s eerie.
I predict smugness directed my way within two (minutes of my wife reading this)!
