january
I wasn't sure if this belonged on this thread or "Spirituality", but here goes...
One evening this past summer I was walking down 7th Ave. to the subway. Right at the stairwell entrance was this young woman who stopped me by saying "You have such a bright aura!" I see good things - money, etc. in your future." I half-smiled to be polite and tried to escape but she was very pushy. She said for $20 she's give me a reading. I told her I didn't have any money on me and she told me that there's an ATM across the street. I said, I'm sorry but I'm not interested. She insisted that I had to hear what she so needed to tell me.
Well, its only $20 and I was curious to hear her. So she followed me to the bank machine (this should have been another sign!), I withdrew my money and accompanied her to her apartment. She told me pretty general stuff, that my heart has been broken (like, whose hasn't?) and that I have a negative energy field around me and nothing will ever go right for me. I will never find someone to love me, I'll always struggle financially and that my friends talk about me behind my back. But, she could fix all this with crystal healing for $400. I declined, of course, saying I couldn't afford it, etc. But then she became rude, asking me if I could borrow the money from someone, do I have credit cards, yada yada... I said I had to go and well, I left.
I walked away feeling nothing but the hole in my wallet. I felt so foolish! I guess I was vulnerable that night and her intuition picked up on it.
Since that night, I've noticed her and others in different parts of the city soliciting "readings". I'm not questioning her ability (although what she told me wasn't any help) but her business ethic.
Has anything similar happened to any of you?
~ january
One evening this past summer I was walking down 7th Ave. to the subway. Right at the stairwell entrance was this young woman who stopped me by saying "You have such a bright aura!" I see good things - money, etc. in your future." I half-smiled to be polite and tried to escape but she was very pushy. She said for $20 she's give me a reading. I told her I didn't have any money on me and she told me that there's an ATM across the street. I said, I'm sorry but I'm not interested. She insisted that I had to hear what she so needed to tell me.
Well, its only $20 and I was curious to hear her. So she followed me to the bank machine (this should have been another sign!), I withdrew my money and accompanied her to her apartment. She told me pretty general stuff, that my heart has been broken (like, whose hasn't?) and that I have a negative energy field around me and nothing will ever go right for me. I will never find someone to love me, I'll always struggle financially and that my friends talk about me behind my back. But, she could fix all this with crystal healing for $400. I declined, of course, saying I couldn't afford it, etc. But then she became rude, asking me if I could borrow the money from someone, do I have credit cards, yada yada... I said I had to go and well, I left.
I walked away feeling nothing but the hole in my wallet. I felt so foolish! I guess I was vulnerable that night and her intuition picked up on it.
Since that night, I've noticed her and others in different parts of the city soliciting "readings". I'm not questioning her ability (although what she told me wasn't any help) but her business ethic.
Has anything similar happened to any of you?
~ january