The Rest Of My Life

I guess today's post was a little preemptive... But I was more getting it out in the open than anything else. As you can probably tell as I'm posting twice in 24 hours, which is something I just don't do, as I've been better known to not blog at all really. Well I know I've said it a million times before, but I'm GOING to stick with it this time. I'm no longer living in the middle of nowhere, and so I'm actually having interesting encounters again. A clear bonus as any true blogger would know.

First focus I'd like to make is on the phenomenon that is eBay. Most of you may know it as that online auction house full of useless junk... Some of you may also be aware that I am now living with one of the top sellers in Australia. Now, where you might sell a thing or two for a quick buck or two... He sells his wears for a living. I always knew he sold a lot... But I never truly grasped just how much of an understatement that is...

He has a van with which to transport his many packages to the post office once the sale is finalized and everything is approved. This Van was PACKED with boxes. And this wasn't even a holiday rush! The postal officer complained that due to Wayne (being that top seller obviously) alone, he is often full before he reaches the final postal office for the route.

It's a truly terrifying thing indeed... What's even more frightening, is that I may follow this trend and open my own eBay store. How I'm going to keep up with this is beyond me, but I haven't strived for a decent challenge for a while now. I feel obligated somehow to also shamelessly plug his store.

So with that all out of the way, I was given what could only be described as a crash course in car model's and makes. I suppose it had to be coming sooner or later with me constantly referring to Wayne's 4WD as a 'Jeep' (Such things frustrate the living daylights outa him, as apparently it is not even CLOSE to a jeep).

Of course I failed miserably at the task of recognizing any such vehicle, and resorted to squinting in an attempt to read the logo's. Some might say that my crash course was more of a crash and burn...

So fast forward to dinner tonight. We go out to a burger joint favored by Wayne, and for good reason. The food was some of the best I've eaten in quite a while. But as it turns out, Wayne is a good friend of the owners husband. We bought a late meal, and so he came out and sat with us as we ate (He came bearing the whisky drink called bullets. So I was more than willing to overlook the intrusion) and chatted it up with Wayne and Mother dearest.

So as time goes on, they finish discussing a trip to India, and it is revealed that he is the palm reader who predicted that Mother dearest would come to be with him in the near future. So of course, out come the palms...

Wayne refused to allow him a second look at his hand, and so he moved straight to Mother dearest. Her hand was apparently 'very interesting' and he proceeded to speak of her personality, subsequently getting most right. He mentioned that her fist said 2 male children, but that wasn't the most impressive thing ever as both myself and my 7 year old brother were seated at the same table.

So he finished with Mother dearest, and at the constant begging of a 7 year old, he did Zac's hand next. All he could really deduce from the 5 lines on his hand was that he seems to be headed for becoming a doctor. His fist said he'd have 1 boy so far.

Finally, he turned his strangely accurate perception powers on me, and out came my hand... This is where things got interesting... He didn't say it was an interesting palm... But rather, it was a palm like nothing he had seen before. He deduced that I was a passionate speaker. That I was a lover. That I was a sick young boy, but have reached a far more healthy stage in my life. He held bad news on this however. Apparently, I'm destined for some illness when I reach my 40's or 50's. Diabetes came as an example, and I can see that as I have a family history.

He turned to my love life, a topic all seemed a little too eager to hear about for my liking... He claimed that I have recently had trouble where I have met someone whom I believe is too beautiful for me. And in a sense, this it true. When applied to my recent downfall, I can draw lines to the fact that I feel she is far too beautiful a person emotionally and spiritually for me, being such a kind soul, I indeed feel that I do not deserve her, which I suppose added to my expectations of rejection.

After that was done, he moved onto the bit that he claimed was unprecedented... The line that supposedly shows what kind of job I will attain, or move towards. This line did not move in any kind of way it should. All he could say for sure, was that it would be an unusual job that perhaps does not exist yet, and that it would not exactly be embraced by society. This apparently did not mean that it would be something vulgar... But that it would be seen as very unusual, and people would most likely approach it with caution.

As a final note, I'm apparently destined to have one female child. And so all in all, it was an interesting experience. Something I'm interested in looking further into. For example, having him examine my other palm...

So that's all from me for now, and until next time, allow me to impart some wisdom upon you all. "A wood chuck could chuck approximately 40 pounds of wood if a wood chuck could chuck wood".

CYOTFS
- Mav