Should I be worried when a psychic approaches me in Best Buy & says "you are surrounded by trouble"?

[LynneSin]

She even wanted to give me a reading right there in the Apple section of Best Buy. She said she saw trouble all around me and could help. I said thank you and pocketed her business card.

[rurallib]

1. Certainly is a new approach. Were you the only one so approached?

The weirdness and total chutzpah of the so-called psychic is humorous to me. Business must be bad or someone may be playing a trick on you.

[Boojatta]

2. Maybe you happen to look like the picture...

of Snow White in an illustrated book of fairy tales that she owns. Remember, the apple meant trouble for Snow White.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. She wasn't a psychic, she was a Microsoft sales rep.

You were in the Apple section, therefore surrounded by "trouble", according to their definition. :evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

37. Oddly enough I was there to buy a Blue Ray DVD player

no clue what I was doing in the Apple section

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. you were obivously in deep trouble

of spending disposable income on computer wizardry. ;)

[Sanity Claws]

5. No

You should be glad that you resisted her sales pitch.
I actually believe that some people are genuinely psychic; none would behave in the way you described.

[david13]

7. Oh I don't know. I imagine the 'psychic industry' is hurting as much

as everyone else in the world economy right now, so maybe she had a vision that she should take a more aggressive and imaginative sales approach and stir up some business. And was psychic enough to believe this was a sucker type person who would fall for crap like that, a reading and all, for a special discount price.
There is no overhead here, no city license, no office rental, no phone needed, etc. Just pure profit.
Don't forget, o p did not toss out the card, she 'pocketed' it. What does that mean.
dc

[LynneSin]

13. I pocketed it because I was being polite

what was I suppose to do - rip it up and spit on her?

[david13]

21. I don't know why you would think of spitting on her. That would not

seem to be very 'polite'.
I don't go by or know about "suppose" to do or not do. I could surmise that what you should do is what you want to do.
I do go by the significance of what is done. If the card has now been taken from the pocket, and placed on your desk, beside the telephone, there is a significance to that.
I think you should determine what to do with your own life. You know what is best for you. I don't.
dc

[LynneSin]

22. The card is still in the pocket

it'll probably stay there for awhile - I rarely wear that jacket.

[Orrex]

6. SHOW YOUR RECEIPT!!!!!!!!!!!!

:scared:

[LynneSin]

23. Oh that was a classic DU flame war

The horrors of having show the guy working the door at your local big budget electronics store

[zanana1]

8. A woman once baptized me.

She said I needed to be rescued. I was working as a clerk in a department store and I just kept quiet and hoped she would do it and leave quickly. She did. I don't know what I was baptized into, but it was pretty funny.

[Nickster]

17. I would have started screaming like the baptism was burning my skin and causing me physical pain.But

that may just be me....:-)

[woo me with science]

19. Oh, you'll know...

...later.

Bwahahahahahahaha. :evilgrin:

[nolabear]

9. Typical media angst-ginning. Scare 'em and then sell 'em the cure.

[Swede]

10. I could answer,but it'll cost.

Some serious coin.

[PassingFair]

11. Did she look anything like this:

If so, I hope you gave her as much money
as you had and then RAN AWAY.

[Odin2005]

12. No. She's probably mentally ill.

[peekaloo]

14. Is there an App for that?

:shrug:

[retread]

15. A psychic in Best Buy?? I would asked if the I-Pad was going to last or should

I get the extended warranty!

[retread]

16. She said, "you are surrounded by trouble" and you WERE in Best Buy. n/t

[woo me with science]

18. Clever approach, actually.

1. You are in Best Buy, so you obviously have some disposable income.

2. Anyone into woo might be curious enough to bite.

3. If the target is unhappy, she might appreciate the empathy and bite for that reason.

You gotta give her credit for imagination.

[hobbit709]

20. you misspelled psycho.

[MorningGlow]

24. No real psychic would have done that

They don't use "scare tactics" to get you to cave for a reading. Pay her no mind. And throw away her card.

[woo me with science]

25. "real" psychic?

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

26. Don't start. n/t

[woo me with science]

30. LOL. I just wanna know who the "real" ones are,

'cause there's a great opportunity they're missing!

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

:woohoo: :popcorn: :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

31. You know...

Just because something is outside your realm of experience doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I have known several remarkable psychics.

Watch out with that limited thinking, WWMS--you might end up being closer in mindset to repukes than you think.

[woo me with science]

32. Well, then, by all means,

pass on the link!

I'll be rooting for them! :woohoo:

[LostInAnomie]

27. You were probably about the 50th person she'd done that to that day.

Psychics are by nature scam artists.

[MrScorpio]

28. She must have been a PC user...

[Forkboy]

29. Yeah...she's the trouble.

Do what I do and get a shirt that says "Do I look like a people person to you?"

If that doesn't work my Deathspell Omega shirt with the angel fetus on the back usually keeps them away.

[GoCubsGo]

33. Yes, I would be worried...

I would be worried that she might have tried to pick-pocket you while trying to convince you that you're in trouble. Other than that, nope.

[Skittles]

34. maybe you just look like trouble, LynneSin

you want I should just kick your troubled ass? It would be both faster and cheaper

[old mark]

35. Keep your hand on your wallet.....I see potential problems with a new

aquaintence......


mark

[LynneSin]

36. nothing in my pockets

I had one of those Dooney & Bourke wristlet purses and everything was there when I left - except the $279 less in my bank account after buyin a new Blueray DVD with Wireless (so I can stream from the internet) and 2 Blueray DVDs (The Hangover and Ingloureous Basterds)

[old mark]

38. Basterds is very funny, if you like splatter violence.

My wife laughed all the way through it. Pitt's Italian is hysterical.

mark