Social clique

Why ask about the future if we do not follow the advice of the Tarot?  Once, at a women's party, the girls asked me to host them. It was very late, I was tired, but they did not budge. - Just one question! the hostess insisted, pushing her crumpled waist out of nowhere. 

Gisela sat next to me first. 

- Anya, my daughter, will deal with Norbert? She asked. 

I turned the cards over and drew out the queen of hearts, the reversed queen of diamonds, the 9 of hearts, and the ace of clubs. Oh, not cool, I thought and explained aloud: 

"Good enough as long as you don't interfere with them." Otherwise—I paused here for a moment, not wanting to use the word dirty in public—you will hurt your daughter a lot,” I finished. 

- I? My Anya?! She squeaked. 

"This is, unfortunately, a sad fact..." I began a new sentence. 

- Why? she picked up. 

— Oh, that's enough! The audience screamed at her. 

- Make an appointment for another day! Now tell Susanna! 

Zuza settled herself comfortably and said:

— Can I finally make the renovation of my dreams? 

Yes, if you pay the expenses yourself. 

- From my salary? she wondered. 

“Then make the peasant destroy the walls, it will be cheaper!” One of them kindly advised, and Zuza changed places with Olga. 

Will I ever get rich? she moaned dramatically, to which the girls reacted with choral laughter. I drew an inverted king of diamonds, 10 of diamonds and 9 of spades. Dog, this is also bad, I reasoned. However, this was not the right time to develop the topic. I just warned her to be vigilant because her husband might run into a little financial trouble through his own fault. 

Later, I was lucky and other participants in the event, but these three answers were certainly food for thought, because they called to ask for a meeting. 

Suzanne was first. 

— You said that I should work on repairs. But the company is cutting jobs. What if I get fired? 

“Calm down,” I said. - You've been promoted. However, there is a big problem with this... 

- I do not have time? she was afraid. 

- Vice versa. You will be great in a leadership position. However, this will require great dedication, frequent trips to nature, and your Charek does not accept this. And also the salary. Much higher than his salary, which he will no longer bear. Maybe a divorce... 

- I'm lonely? 

I put in another set.

- In two or three years, as part of the delegation, you will meet a great guy. You won't meet him if you don't accept this promotion. Your future life depends on your current decision. 

“Then I will remain in my current position,” she said. But she did otherwise, and the marriage really fell apart. Now we are both waiting for her new relationship. 

I saw Gisela much later.

She looked strangely confused. "Remember," she began, "when I asked you about my daughter's affair?" Well, since then our relationship has become very complicated. Anya and Norbert stayed with me. I've always liked Norbert. But I knew about the age difference and that I looked like his mother-in-law, - then she stopped and nervously lit a cigarette. I decided to help her.

— Did you sleep with Norbert? 

“Yes,” she managed. — After vodka. My daughter went on duty, and I cooked dinner for him. I served some alcohol. Then he brought a bottle. Worst of all, she shook off the ashes, it happened again. I cannot exist without him. 

"You'll have to," I said firmly. Anya is in her first days of pregnancy. I don't know, I continued, whether their relationship survived, but even if they break up, it won't be your fault. Help them financially. Let them rent an apartment. 

- What about me? She stuttered helplessly. 

“You will love your granddaughter,” I summed up and ended this unusual story. 

The last one was Olga.

The day I saw her at the party, neither of us knew that Zusa's husband had become addicted. He became a player. In order to get money for visiting the casino, he got into debt with companies that provide instant loans. It turned out that he had mortgaged the apartment purchased in his name with the money of his wife's parents. Collectors don't give up. 

- What to do? Olga asks and, crying, tortures herself why she was not more suspicious, more sensitive to the signals that sometimes came to her, because the maps clearly identified the culprit of the disaster. 

Maria Bigoshevskaya 

tarologist