The Mystery of Telling the Future

[Moonbear]

The psychic saying that she usually doesn't help her clients like that probably means that she didn't really expect the ring to be found, but it was the best solution to the information given her. She was probably preparing an alternate interpretation incase the ring was found somewhere else.

Exactly! That's the way I interpreted it. She doesn't usually get that lucky that someone is psycho enough to tear up newly laid carpet and floorboards looking for a ring on her advice and the ring is actually in the place she looked. If she found nothing, there are a million other ways to interpret the clues pink and floorboards. Pink because she took the ring off while pregnant and/or because she is expecting a girl. Floorboards are easy because most small things that are lost are on the floor somewhere: in a crevice somewhere, under furniture, behind furniture, sucked up when vacuuming, carried away by a pet, etc.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The psychic saying that she usually doesn't help her clients like that probably means that she didn't really expect the ring to be found, but it was the best solution to the information given her. She was probably preparing an alternate interpretation incase the ring was found somewhere else.

No, because she made that statement after the ring was found. Recall that she said something to the effect she's glad it worked out. She made an exception for this woman because she was just about positive the kid knew where the ring was.

 

[Huckleberry]

The 3 year old probably put the ring in a crack. Maybe they were redoing the floors at one point months ago. That would have given him the opportunity. Maybe it is an old house. They often don't have perfect flooring.

It doesn't surprise me that the 3 year old said dustmen. I'm not sure why he would say that but I am curious. I think he might be jealous of the baby. I guess it could be that he has assigned his own meaning to the term dustmen, but I'm not sure. I think it is more likely he wanted his mother to believe that the ring was gone. That would be the motive.

I say the kid is the culprit.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The 3 year old probably put the ring in a crack. Maybe they were redoing the floors at one point months ago. That would have given him the opportunity. Maybe it is an old house. They often don't have perfect flooring.

The kid put it there, or, he a least saw it down there after it rolled there when the mother dropped it. The point is: the kid knew where it was, and the mother wouldn't pay any attention to him. He had to keep repeating himself, but she wouldn't stop to figure out what he was trying to say.

It doesn't surprise me that the 3 year old said dustmen. I'm not sure why he would say that but I am curious. I think he might be jealous of the baby. I guess it could be that he has assigned his own meaning to the term dustmen, but I'm not sure. I think it is more likely he wanted his mother to believe that the ring was gone. That would be the motive.

Just because a three year old says "dustmen' doesn't mean he's using the term properly. You have to ask "What would a three year old call "the dustmen"? Could be anything to do with dust. He may have looked into the crack in the floor, seen dust, and decided "Only dustmen would live there." or whatever.

The point is, that the psychic now has to do a bit of fishing to figure out the details. She chats, finds out there's just been a remodel. New carpet? Why, she wonders, to cover an old, cracked floor? She fishes. Oh, she finds out, the new girls room is where the boy now usually plays, or whatever. Maybe, if she's lucky, the mother has to use her bathroom and she gets to ask the little boy "Joe, where are the dustmen?" "In the floor!", Joe says. And so on. Many possible variations.