Thursday, January 21, 2010

What are the odds?

Talking of weird experiences, this morning we were in the centre of Oxford doing a bit of filming for the 'Million Dollar Psychic' project I mentioned a few months ago. The plan was for me to stop people on the street and try to guess their mother's first name. The idea was to see if I had any signs of hidden psychic abilities before I started my attempt to learn to become psychic! We'd film, say, three or four different attempts and see me getting it wildly wrong time and time again. At least that was the plan.

The first person I approach was a young woman whose name, I quickly discover, is Helen. Not through psychic means; she tells me. I briefly explain what we're doing, and ask her if she would mind helping us for a couple of minutes. Reluctantly, she agrees.

As she's thinking of her mum's name, I close my eyes to see if anything comes to mind. Nothing. So, instead I try gazing off into the middle distance, and I notice a sign at the entrance to the college behind her. "Balliol College."

"Does your mum's name have a B in it?" I ask.

"Er, yes..." she replies.

"Does it begin with B?" I ask again.

"Er... yeah..." I think I'm more impressed than she is. She eyes me up suspiciously. I just go for the first female name I can think of beginning with B.

"Is her name Barbara?"

"Yes!"

I'm completely flummoxed. Helen walks away as I'm left open-mouthed. She no doubt thinks it's some kind of trick.

I know it was just a lucky guess, but I'm wondering if I could be psychic already?

Just in case, later in the day I buy a lottery ticket for this Saturday's Lotto draw... well if I'm on a roll I don't want it to go to waste!

6 comments:

lifes said...

Ooh..great lucky guess..or was it?

How did you do in total?

Now..if you got my mothers name I would be very impressed.

For sure buy the ticket...got to be in it to win it.

enn said...

I would say if you have to ask yourself if you're psychic or not then you probably aren't.
You know that you are if you are. If you know what I mean.

Tom Ruffles said...

"Now..if you got my mothers name I would be very impressed."

Why - is it really weird?

Anonymous said...

Tom...no,not weird but if a psychic gave me her name (of course without knowing anything about me) then I would have to start thinking there may be something in it all.

Spiritual Junkie said...

Amy?

Anonymous said...

Afraid not.

 
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