Reverse Horoscope?
You know, I dislike pointless emails as much as the next guy, but I figured I would try one today. It only took 3 minutes to go through so I don’t feel like I wasted any time. It was your run-of-the-mill, series of questions, chain-letter, basic psychology sort of fortune teller email. It asked for my favorite number so I chose 4.3 - now 4.3 is a good number, its better than 4.2 or 4.4 and it represents a high A average. It popped into my mind and I used it. Later on in the email it turns out that my number represents “how many close friends you have in your lifetime.”
Now that number struck me as rather odd. First, 4 friends is a frightningly small number for one to have in a lifetime. Second, what about that 0.3? Is that a person with a select number of limbs amputated so they are .3 of a normal person or someone who is only friendly 33.3% of the time? Who knows. I think that’s the last e-mail like that I read for a while.