I was in Cambridge (UK) with my girlfriend the other day, we'd decided to go into town as we both had things to buy. We'd just finished prowling a heavy-discount music store (where I got two good albums for £4 each), and went to sit down in a small park like area near the punts. We then noticed a completely immobile drunken tramp on the next bench, covering his eyes. We decided to stay put anyway, as our bench was quite far from his anyway.
Soon after we sat down, we see a strange man walking down the road next to us. He walked straight into the park, looked around and headed straight for us. He was wearing a blue and yellow jester hat, a colorful striped patchwork jacket, a waistcoat with colorful cats on it, and a pair of leopard print trousers. he had a mustache and a goatee, and medium length brown hair. He came up to us and this is what happened-
Girlfriend: Hello
Me: Hi
Man: Hello there
Girlfriend: Are you from the shakespeare society?
(at this point we thought he was advertising for a play or something)
Man: No, no, many people ask me that though
*he crouches*
Man: I am the most dangerous person you will ever meet...
(warning bells went off in my head)
Man: ...Because I can tell you everything about yourself in only a few minutes- personality traits, help you avoid future mistakes, understand yourself- all in only a few minutes!
Girlfriend: And is this service free?
(shes a skeptical person)
Man: Well how about I perform it for you and you then decide how much you'd like to pay?
Me: You want to?
Girlfriend: I'm ok thanks
(nutter alarm going off)
Then for some reason I got interested
Me: Ok, I'll give it a go
Man: Excellent, now if you'll just shunt up a little bit
(I move my albums onto the floor so he can sit down)
Man: and I'll just put these down here, so I can relive the sixties later
(he puts a bag from the discount music store down, it had two albums by ASA or w/e)
He then proceeds to place a piece of laminated card on the bench, then decides to put one of the two red and black notebooks hes carrying under it, saying how the trick is to balance it. The A4 notebook he puts on the bench has a round union jack sticker on it. He then explains how he has 8 colors in his pocket and he'll use these to tell me everything about myself. He hands my girlfriend a piece of green laminated printed paper.
Man: Ok, you can read these in the meanwhile.
I took a look at the sheet while my girfriend read it in silence. At the top of the page was a heading announcing the “Pan-D color reading system”. I skimmed along the margin to read the name of the seemingly insane bloke who was I was becoming increasingly wary of. The paper had a transcript between a man named Matt and “Andi Pandi”, the name of the man sitting next to me.
Andi Pandi then started looking for the “colors” in his pocket.
Andi Pandi: If only I could find them, thats the problem with being an absent minded genius- you misplace things, ah here they are!
(he pulls out a handful of tatty looking laminated cards)
he then started laying out the cards in some kind of order, in rows and columns on his makeshift table.
Andi Pandi: Now choose your favorite color cards, in order- just flip them over once you've picked them.
He opened a flip top notebook (same brand as the other one), which had clearly had many pages torn out beforehand. There were about 4 boxed off rows of numbers, with different orders. Some boxes contained 4 rows, some had 5 or 6. Some number combinations were circled and others left just as a row of digits.
I picked my favorite colors once or twice, flipping them over as I went along (Andi Pandi let out occasional murmers of interest and phrases like- “how fascinating!”, and it was then I decided to dick with him a little bit. I started choosing colors based not on my favorites but on brightness, then on darkness. Andi Pandi then stared at my choices and hmmmmed a bit.
Andi Pandi: Do you know that you've got almost the exact reverse order of colors on these rows?
Uh oh, the game was up
Me: Is that a problem
Andi Pandi: No, not at all- as long as those are your choices- aha! The choices are reversed apart from 5 and 8, which stay the same- switching around alternately! Fascinating, you have a very interesting mind.
(I'd fucked up my color order mildly, he went back to staring at the numbers as if doing calculations)
Andi Pandi: You see the 0 and 7 come together frequently, here at the start and here at the end
(he circled the 0s and 7s together, including ones that were one digit off, etc. Incidentially 0 and 7 were grey and black so that profound mystery of my mind is explained, although they did show up together in my honest choices).
Andi Pandi: ok, I think I have it all
He then went on to describe how I need the right audience for my ideas, how I have a deeply profund mind, and how if I don't get the recognition I deserve its because I'm in front of the wrong audience and need to channel my talents correctly. He also said that I may be manic depressive. I think the only thing we can really take from this is that I get bored fast and like to screw people around. On the other hand, most of his “conclusions” were drawn from circles in my first sets of results (non-addled), and some of what he said rings true. Then again, probably the “tarot” method- I'm looking for ways to interpret something so vague it could apply to anyone.
So after a few minutes of justifying what he said to me enough to keep him happy, we shook hands and parted. I gave him £2 for his 20 minutes, stood up to get the cash out in case this was part of some elaboarate mugging.
Searching around on the internet I found two pictures on him on a stranger's flickr and a listing of a book hes written called “The psychology of colour”. If I ever see him again I'll have a more serious go at the color analysis thing, now I know what to expect. From what happened to me and from the picttures I found- he likes to approach people sitting on benches in Cambridge on tuesday afternoons.
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cool story bro
no, seriously, I'd like to go to Cambridge one tuesday after noon just to see if he's there
he looks like a really cool guy
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Famous_Bushman]this guy is better[/url]
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Interesting...
He looks pretty cool actually.
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This should be turned into a nursery ryhme.
Hahaha what the fuck.
Next time get your dick out.
sounds p. cool actually
he looks badass
I want his hat
Sounds interesting actually.
For some reason the name in the title sounded like a porn star's name
OP you look like such a fattie
I would love to go out for coffee with this guy, he seems very interesting.
You're lucky. I was in denmark once with my Uncle and someone came up to me and him and offered us drugs.
We were like, "Erm, no thanks."
[QUOTE=Raphael;16946582]OP you look like such a fattie[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=RapeApe;16944504]Searching around on the internet I found two pictures on him on a stranger's flickr[/QUOTE]
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He has a really colorful personality.
What a cracking guy.
I don't see why you where worried about him being crazy. His clothes are clean and that means he has a place and money to wash them or get new ones. All the real crazies and bums are dirty and smelly and they're clothes are dirty and smelly and old.
At first when I read his description you gave I was all like " This guy must dress like a faggot"
But then I saw the picture, and I though he looked like a really cool dude.
If I had his clothes, I would honestly dress like that at least once.
He looks kinda like Serj Tankian...
Its clearly a scam.
But at least he puts effort in, for that I commend the man! He brings colour to theft.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;16952115]Its clearly a scam.
But at least he puts effort in, for that I commend the man! He brings colour to theft.[/QUOTE]
It's not a scam, you are paying for his services to be fed bullshit.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16952134]It's not a scam, you are paying for his services to be fed bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Mmm, delicious.
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