You have a lucky face!

pebbles21

So this Indian guy in his 60s wearing a turban walks up to me and says "You have a lucky face"

I goes ..Whaaa?..he then writes down a few things on a piece of paper,crumples it and puts it in my hand and asks me the following questions

Him:Name a colour?
Me:Blue
Him:another colour?
Me:Pink
Him:a number between 1 and 12?
Me:3
Him:Another number?
Me:11
Him:what month was i born in?
Me:August

He said open the paper,and yes it said blue,pink,3,11,August

He then wanted to tell me my fortune and of course was looking for money,wrote down 3 amounts 20,30,50 and how much would i be willing to pay,he also handed me a little red seed thing and said it was lucky

At that stage i gave him a tenner and told him that was enough,the only reason i gave it to him cos i was impressed with his trick

Anyone else come across this guy? This happened in Mallow today

justchecked

sure it did.

wakka12

Tenners a lot for that, you're a right sucker

endacl

I met him in Hong Kong, in 2000.

Feckin' chancer... :mad:

Filmer Paradise

Circle the Wagons!

Injuns!

kfallon

So this Indian guy in his 60s wearing a turban walks up to me and says "You have a lucky face"

I say "No thanks" and keep walking!

That's how it would have played out for me

DEFTLEFTHAND

I was hustled by a gypsy in Paris once, I went to the police and was told to go back to Ireland.

blade1

I'd have punched him in the face and said...
"Betcha didn't see that coming!"

Niemoj

Nah...

biko

Haven't seen him, then again I haven't been to Cork in ages.

Old Jakey

Giving ten euro to an injun...what were you thinking?

Menas

kfallon wrote: »

So this Indian guy in his 60s wearing a turban walks up to me and says "You have a lucky face"

I say "No thanks" and keep walking!

That's how it would have played out for me

Same here, but two different words!

LDN_Irish

Those romas be wearing turbans.

Alpha Romeo

Reminds me of the time I used to tell jokes to gypsies.

Me: Knock knock
Gypsy: Who's there
Me: Big ish
Gypsy. Big ish who
Me: Nah I'm alright mate *walks away

daveville30

pebbles21 wrote: »

So this Indian guy in his 60s wearing a turban walks up to me and says "You have a lucky face"

I goes ..Whaaa?..he then writes down a few things on a piece of paper,crumples it and puts it in my hand and asks me the following questions

Him:Name a colour?
Me:Blue
Him:another colour?
Me:Pink
Him:a number between 1 and 12?
Me:3
Him:Another number?
Me:11
Him:what month was i born in?
Me:August

He said open the paper,and yes it said blue,pink,3,11,August

He then wanted to tell me my fortune and of course was looking for money,wrote down 3 amounts 20,30,50 and how much would i be willing to pay,he also handed me a little red seed thing and said it was lucky

At that stage i gave him a tenner and told him that was enough,the only reason i gave it to him cos i was impressed with his trick

Anyone else come across this guy? This happened in Mallow today

how did he do that?

kfallon

Menas wrote: »

Same here, but two different words!

Ah I wouldn't use those words unless he persisted after I'd made my position clear I wasn't interested!

One eyed Jack

daveville30 wrote: »

how did he do that?

It's anything but rocket science -

Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums and illusionists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses.

Cold reading, Wikipedia entry.

punisher5112

I be like yes my face is lucky but sorry to say yours is not while face palming and walking off.

Mesrine65

daveville30 wrote: »

how did he do that?

PARlance

He sounds like a bit of a Cowboy.