Anyways, her son was no better than the other boys, and often missed the ball or hit sputtering fouls like a 6 year old. The mother's predictions almost always turned out false. But her predictions were another stone in the road of her unending monologue, and I'm sure she'd forgotten what she'd said just as soon as the inning changed.
Yesterday, she said to the daughter, "this time he's going to hit off the pitch, and it's going to the outfield." The son fulfilled this prophecy by knocking one past the second baseman on the first pitch, and the crowd cheered. Then in a groan-inducing example of confirmation bias, the mother starts remarking to the daughter how she predicted this, and how the Tarot reader said she has prescience. Apparently, the mother has the ability to predict the future every now and then.
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