Thursday, August 23, 2012

Do radio waves read my mind?

So twice today was I visited by the clairvoyancy fairy via the typical (if you can even call it that, since obviously clairvoyancy is completely normal...) means of conduction by which my clairvoyancy appears - radio frequencies. The first incidence was when I poured my daughter a glass of juice and commanded her to "Drink!" The way I said it wasn't mean-spirited, just attention-getting since the tube was on. As I turn my back to the TV to place the juice back into the fridge, from a commercial I hear the same emphatic command - "Drink!“. Not an hour later at the car, I was putting my daughter in her carseat and had the car turned on to get it cooled down. The radio was on and I was saying something to my daughter that wasn't the least bit profound, something along the lines of "I know you want to..." when not 3 seconds after finishing my brief discussion with her, the commercial on the radio makes the same statement - "i know you want to..." To this day, I still wonder if I am the only person who would predict that Steve Harvey (the comedian) would use the word "befuddled" during an interview on Good Morning America in 2009 when he was promoting his book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man. You can ask my daughter's grandmother about that one. A black man using the word "befuddled" - that happens about as frequently as seeing a speckled unicorn do the electric slide. Did I predict that he would say that - THAT! - word? Did I will Steve Harvey to say that word in response to a caller's question about his book, at that moment, not 3 seconds after I remarked to my daughter's grandmother "He looks befuddled," as we were sitting there watching the interview? I was beside myself, although I believe that is a different super power.

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