[dennisw]

War? What war. Life goes on in the Big Apple. It is the women who go to the psychics, the Ouija board and the Tarot Card readers.

[SamAdams76]

I went to a fortune teller/tarot card reader just one time, it was with an early girlfriend who was into all that hippie-dippie stuff. This pschic (a woman) did the whole nine yards. Not only did she look like Cher but she worked in a darkened room with heavy curtains, tiny tables with candles, soft Eastern meditation music playing with thick rugs and incense burning all around.

You are right, those "psychics" market themselves more to the women as they are very touchy-feely and super vague about what they are telling you so that no matter what happens in your life afterwards, you can say they were mostly right in their predictions. They are pretty good at it.

This would have been back in the early 1980s and I remember being told that I had a bright future, that my hard work would someday pay off, that I would have setbacks but would overcome them, that a close family member would disappoint me, a friend would betray me, blah, blah, blah. Basically the kind of stuff that happens to everybody eventually.

My girlfriend was beaming afterwards, saying over and over again "Aren't you glad you went?". Many of the women do eat that psychic stuff up. I did not last too long with that girlfriend. She was nice enough but we just didn't work out.