Sunday 19 May 2024

The Fool

I'd seen half a dozen people entering the Fortune Teller's tent and leave looking very happy, and I just had to go in and see how they could all be fooled.


Inside was gloomy and 'mystical', with a woman shuffling a tarot deck at a table.


She looked up at me and sighed.


"Look, I'll save us both some time. Of course I can't actually tell the future, I just tell people what they want to hear, ok?"


I nodded and left, before realising that's what she'd just done to me.


Then I wondered how she knew what to say...

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