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    Hello, I am Hyena Dandy. Freelance Tarot reader.

    I read Tarot cards. Not a bad gig, I average about twenty dollars a reading. Now, I am a freelance Tarot Reader. This means I draw cards, put them on a table, and tell you what they mean.

    As I said. My job is Tarot Reader.

    I do not have the following jobs



    GPS Device

    Again, Neither Mrs. Smith nor Mr. Waite ever thought to give me a list of locations in your house. And therefore, I cannot find pentagram necklace. Really. I'm very glad its silver. I'm excited that you got it from your best friend you've known for the last fifteen years. And I am positively ECSTATIC that you got it when you joined your coven. Really, words cannot express my joy for you.

    However I can only hazard a gue...

    Oh, good, you found it under the couch.


    Diagnostician

    Whether the problem is as simple as a cough or as complex as your leg spontaneously doubling in size, the cards do not have a degree in medicine. Not even pre-med. And therefore they cannot tell me the name of your disease. Call a doctor.


    Computer Repairman

    Similar to the cards not having medical degrees, they also do not have computer science degrees. They cannot figure out why your screen keeps freezing up. And though I can hazard a guess that the dot on your screen that won't change color is a stuck pixel, I can't tell you whether or not your warranty covers it.


    Landlord

    The floorboard in your apartment creaks whenever you step on it? Well, its a bit hasty to think its ghosts. Before assuming someone was killed on that spot, you may want to replace the wood. Have you called your landlord?

    You have not. Well, there's your problem.

    Detective

    Its a shame someone stole your brand new hoodie. I grieve with you. However, I cannot tell you who stole it. Presumably someone with terrible fashion sense, as camouflage patterns do not look good in pink. If I can be honest, as a dandy, I feel the thief has done you a favor... But as distressed as I am about your loss, I regret to inform you that my cards do not provide me with names. I use pretty basic Rider Waite Smith meanings, and sadly neither Mrs. Smith, nor Mr. Waite thought to at any point provide a way of using the cards to spell out the perpetrator of this dastardly favor crime.

    Emergency Dispatcher

    Well, this one was short enough, and I never got a name, so I guess I shall call this customer Knife Guy

    KG: Knife Guy
    HD: Me

    KG: Help! I've been stabbed! WHAT SHOULD I DO?!
    HD: Have you called 911?
    KG: OH MY GOD YOU'RE A GENIUS!

    That's me. Always thinking one step ahead. By the way, I keep records. You're NOT a previous customer of mine. So why the Sam Hill would you call ME when you've been stabbed. And why the hell would you even have this number? Did the mugger leave it?

    Hmmm... A thief steals someone's hoodie, then someone gets stabbed. Two consecutive calls within two hours of each-other. There may be a criminal conspiracy against me.
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  • #2
    Quoth Hyena Dandy View Post
    Hmmm... A thief steals someone's hoodie, then someone gets stabbed. Two consecutive calls within two hours of each-other.
    Hmm... your number doesn't happen to be 912, does it?
    !
    "For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." -- Lord Byron

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    • #3
      I was wondering if you could tell me why I have such a bad toothache and this awful indigestion.... *ducks and covers*

      On a more serious note I think what you do is fairly neat and novel. I have never had my fortune read or the like as I have never personally believed in such things. It is amazing really though what people will believe you can do just because you have a deck of cards, as is evidenced by your post

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      • #4
        Hyena Dandy,
        Have you ever read stranger in a strange land? There is a character in the book I think you would enjoy

        Robert A Heinlein if you haven't and r curious

        ^
        |

        My fav auth evar! {>
        I used to be disgusted... Now I'm just amused

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        • #5
          Wow...oh, wow, a fellow reader! *hugz*

          I thought I was alone.

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          • #6
            I'm a reader, myself. Strictly amateur, however.

            My deck of choice is the Cat People deck. I like it's forthrightness.

            I love the sorts of questions people think can be answered by someone wielding a tarot deck. I like to point out to people that the deck will only tell them what they already know, but some people just can't wrap their minds around that idea.

            ^-.-^
            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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            • #7
              My deck of choice is the Cat People deck. I like it's forthrightness.
              I LOVE that deck. I've had some good times with it. I actually wore out my old one. My new one is just as good though. =3

              Hmm... your number doesn't happen to be 912, does it?
              781.

              Have you ever read stranger in a strange land? There is a character in the book I think you would enjoy
              BIG Heinlein fan. Which one ya thinking of? X3

              Wow...oh, wow, a fellow reader! *hugz*

              I thought I was alone.
              *hugz back*

              Ooh, looks like you have some pretty tough times. I REALLY hate those "I don't believe in Tarot, give me a reading!" people.
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              • #8
                I'm planning to have some tarot cards tattooed on my back.

                Just thought I'd throw that out there.
                Drive it like it's a county car.

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                • #9
                  Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
                  I'm planning to have some tarot cards tattooed on my back.

                  Just thought I'd throw that out there.
                  Which ones/Which deck?
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Hyena Dandy View Post
                    Which ones/Which deck?
                    Rider-Waite deck and thus far the four definite ones are the Hanged Man (my mother's arcana), Strength (my arcana), the 10 of Cups (hope for the future), and Fortune to tie it all together. The wheel of fortune is always turning and leading from sacrifice to strength to joy. One other card belongs, but it hasn't revealed itself yet. I plan to have the entire array encircled by an oroborous with my motto in latin written on its side.
                    Drive it like it's a county car.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
                      Rider-Waite deck and thus far the four definite ones are the Hanged Man (my mother's arcana), Strength (my arcana), the 10 of Cups (hope for the future), and Fortune to tie it all together. The wheel of fortune is always turning and leading from sacrifice to strength to joy. One other card belongs, but it hasn't revealed itself yet. I plan to have the entire array encircled by an oroborous with my motto in latin written on its side.

                      Very nice. I'm thinking about getting a tattoo of my arcana (the lovers) somewhere... But no idea where.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Hyena Dandy View Post
                        Very nice. I'm thinking about getting a tattoo of my arcana (the lovers) somewhere... But no idea where.
                        I'm glad you like the idea. It's interesting how everyone has an arcana, but people tend to only admit the ones you'd expect someone to be proud of -- the Emperor, the Empress, etc. I've only found one person willing to own up to being of the Devil arcana.
                        Drive it like it's a county car.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
                          I'm glad you like the idea. It's interesting how everyone has an arcana, but people tend to only admit the ones you'd expect someone to be proud of -- the Emperor, the Empress, etc. I've only found one person willing to own up to being of the Devil arcana.
                          Well, its part of admitting who you are... Your good sides and bad sides. My boyfriend is The Tower.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Hyena Dandy View Post
                            Well, its part of admitting who you are... Your good sides and bad sides. My boyfriend is The Tower.
                            Considering the doom that tends to avalanche through my life on a regular basis, I was frankly quite shocked to find that I wasn't the Tower, the Moon, or the Fool.
                            Drive it like it's a county car.

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                            • #15
                              I'm curious- how would a person know what their arcana is?

                              I've had one person tell me the Charioteer was a good fit for me, but I've no idea whether that was because of the means by which arcana are chosen, or simply a more generic "You're kinda ambitious, aintcha?"
                              "Joi's CEO is about as sneaky and subtle as a two year old on crack driving an air craft carrier down Broadway." - Broomjockey

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