Miracles! Premonitions!

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I remember once when I was playing poker with some friends,

The host brought out a boxed set of two decks of cards and handed me one of the decks. As soon as I touched it I blurted out "There's a card missing from this deck." My friend replied "which card?" "Queen of diamonds," I answered without hesitation. He took the other deck out of the box and spread it out face up while I did the same with the "light" deck. The deck I was holding had no queen of diamonds and the other deck had two of them.

I honestly don't know what to make of that. But whatever it was, it certainly didn't change my conviction that the "supernatural" is nonsense. And who knows how many equally outrageous predictions I may have made that I don't remember because they turned out not to be true.