Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Tails

This week isn’t really fiction, this is pretty much what happened. My lucky coin was one of the 1999 Year of the Older Person coins (I still have one here with me for important decisions) and we favoured it because we had a mate at Uni who was a mature age student - but not that much older - who was full of excellent advice. We still call him Wise Old Mr. Emitt now.

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The coin seemed to spin in slow motion, the light glinting and flashing as my future spun round and round. I’d weighed up the pros and cons for the decision, and at the time, both seemed equally sensible choices. So what better way to break the deadlock then by calling on Lady Luck? I snatched my favourite coin out of the air, and said to myself “heads, high school English and Computing, tails, primary teaching.” I opened my hand and the spiral glinted up at me. Course applied for: Graduate Diploma of Education - Primary I jotted down on the form.
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Woops, forgot to say this the weekly prompt from Julia's Place and the topic this week is flipping of some sort.

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8 comments:

  1. Sally-Jayne21 February 2012 at 15:10

    I see you said "at the time", so now I want to know about afterwards! Are you pleased with the decision the coin made for you?

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  2. buddahfulkat21 February 2012 at 18:16

    Great piece! This leaves me wanting to know what other decisions you've made this way. Have you ever gone against the coin's advice?

    Sometimes when I do a coin flip, I start to go against the toss and then second guess that and then flip again deciding to do two out of three or five out of seven.

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  3. Anna21 February 2012 at 20:15

    What a clever use of the prompt. All the better for being true.
    Thanks for sharing this...and yes, what happened next?

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  4. Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron22 February 2012 at 05:13

    I hope Lady Luck smiled on you thereafter. My children use a similar method when they can't decide which sweet/video/story to choose. Usually the answer, as presented by the coin, convinces them that it's actually the alternative that they would prefer.

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  5. Lynda22 February 2012 at 18:14

    Phew! A scary thing to do. Hope it proved to be the right decision for you.

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  6. Judee22 February 2012 at 20:32

    Sometimes both oèptions are so right you just have to flip for it. Nice use of the prompt.

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  7. jfb5723 February 2012 at 04:57

    I think that coin spinning is a great art especially if either choice is fine!! Thank you for joining and sharing that great coin.Now I'm 60 I have an interest in 'older people' things! ;)

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  8. DancingInTheRain26 February 2012 at 14:00

    Nicely written and as someone who can always see the pros and cons of everything (and can thus never decide), I particularly enjoyed reading this and was eagerly awaiting the outcome.

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