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"I went to Carol when my three-year old son, Joe, started winding me up and saying that the ring had gone away with the dustmen."
zoobyshoe said:"I went to Carol when my three-year old son, Joe, started winding me up and saying that the ring had gone away with the dustmen."
No, epiphanies yet, PIT2?
We have a missing ring. A three-year-old boy pesters his mother with the statement that the ring "had gone away with the dustmen."
Three-year-old kids are not very articulate. Sometimes they make up names for things. Sometimes they anthropomorphize things.
There are other important things to remember about three-year-old kids, things the psychic probably had firmly in mind when giving her suggestion.
Mrs Panchurz said: " I had just got the nursery freshly decorated for the new baby. The carpet had been freshly laid down and all the furniture was in, but we decided to rip the carpet up and lever a floorboard and there it was.
The timetable is pretty clearly laid out in the article. The ring had been missing 7 months. The room had only just ben renovated. It is clear the renovation was not the occasion of the loss of the ring.PIT2 said:A psychic discovering that the room had recently been renovated, would probably suspect the ring was lost somewhere during the renovation.
zoobyshoe said:Aren't you curious as to how the ring got under the floorboard? And how did it get under there a full 7 months before the renovation? Makes you wonder why the renovation happened in the first place, doesn't it? How could a ring get under a floorboard? What is an obvious good reason to renovate a floor?
Yes! A crack in the floor is the most obvious explanation for how the ring got under the floorboards. The location of the ring, though, is only something everyone is sure about now that it's been found.PIT2 said:Perhaps there was a crack in the floor and this is why they renovated it?
Er...atually what you said was:This is a good reason why the psychic would suspect the ring was in the renovated room, moved out of sight completely under the freshly laid carpet, like i said.
and I had to point out the ring was lost months before the renovation.PIT2 said:A psychic discovering that the room had recently been renovated, would probably suspect the ring was lost somewhere during the renovation.
Yes, but she'd do it much more subtly. She won't look psychic if she comes out and says "Did you look into the cracks?"Hey... this room is renovated, i wonder why? Why is there a new carpet? Is there something wrong with the floor? Wait, ill just ask her: were there cracks in the floor?"
zoobyshoe said:Er...atually what you said was:
and I had to point out the ring was lost months before the renovation.
By the way, do you now realize who had looked into the cracks, and seen the ring? The person whose misunderstood testimony gave her the confidence to suggest tearing up a newly laid carpet?