Minds reading Swiss style! In these difficult times, many of us are forced to find creative ways of filling the growing financial black holes. For one Swiss resident, overcoming this troubling situation is all in the mind ...
| Auteur | De Faoite, Diarmuid |
As an impoverished writer for Swiss News, I need other sources of income to keep the wolves from the door. Speaking of wolves (bears, lynx, and some birds of prey also spring to mind) ... don't you just love the way the Swiss keep reintroducing certain types of dangerous animals to the countryside, only for farmers in Graubunden to use them for target practice?
Inspiration in the strangest places
Anyway, inspired by the greatest living Swiss person--the TV clairvoyant Mike Shiva--I developed my own mind-reading act, which I took on the road throughout Switzerland this summer to great acclaim (the best bit was counting all the money after the show).
So, dear readers, prepare to be astounded, as I demonstrate to you my incredible powers with this verbatim transcript of one of my "readings":
--Is there someone here by the name of Christian?
--Yes.
--Aha, but Christian is not what your friends call you, is it?
--You're right. They have a nickname for me.
--I bet they call you "Chrigi".
--Amazing, yes!
--And some of these friends are very old friends aren't they? From primary school ...
--Yes, I've known Stefan and Urs pretty much my whole life.
--You live in an apartment, don't you? Not a house, but an apartment.
--Yes.
--And you don't own this apartment, do you? You rent.
--Correct again.
--You do your laundry just one day a week.
--Wednesdays.
--Unless that old bag from upstairs is trying to annoy you again by hogging the laundry room ...
--I can't stand her! How do you know all this?
--Nevertheless, although you like being at home, you also love to travel, is that right?
--Oh yes.
--In Switzerland, but also abroad.
--All over.
--You have a favourite foreign country that you love to go to, don't you?
--Indeed.
--And when you return home, you stick all your holiday photos in albums.
--Yes.
--You have quite a lot of these: Some of them are in your cellar where you keep your wine and banana boxes full of junk
--Yes.
--You love "the...
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