IT'S YOUR FORTUNE...COOKIE!

HELLO GENTLE READERS,

Ever had a Psychic Reading? I have! When I was 12, my mom, on a lark, loaded some of us into the car and took us to see Mrs. Copeland, the local Oracle of Delphi. For $2.50 each (a tank of gas in those days), we were promised a roadmap to our lives. That seemed a little pricey to me. $2.50 would buy a lot of baseball cards back then. A future EBAY fortune already down the drain!

Anyway, she took us into the kitchen, one at a time, for our readings. I expected a dark and dingy room with a crystal ball. Maybe a few Astrological symbols on the walls. It was just a circa 1965 kitchen. What! No crystal ball? No Tarot Cards? Not even a dowsing rod? What kind of Fortune Teller is this? All she did was take my hand and start talking. And, talk she did. After obtaining certain information (date and time of birth, etc.), she started the session. She made some interesting predictions.

1. You'll be a big, tall man. (I'm 5'-9" tall and weigh 130 pounds).
2. You'll have 3 children. (Only one that I know of).
3. You'll own a brick house on a hill. (It's West Virginia for God's sake-it's all hills).
4. Women will love you. (Now we're cooking with gas).
5.You'll accomplish great things. (Will you marry me?).
6. You'll be remembered for years to come. (Will you have my 3 children?).

Yeah, she hit on a few things but, even a blind squirrel finds the occasional acorn. I lost all faith in seers when the Psychic Hotline went bankrupt. You'd think they would've seen it coming!

I think I'll just stick to General Tso's Chicken and Fortune Cookies.

Tom Vickers