Has anyone else had a client that asked for, Something like "What's my favorite color?" or anything to that degree? I've had a few and I find it disrespectful and annoying. I put my best face on as to not lower my self to the rudeness they are displaying. But still, why do people think It's some kind of joke? I get their real question in and they feel bad that they were rude, still why do to begin with?
A lot of people are trying to test you, to see if you are for real before you start reading.
Sad case, I had a client recently, a middle-aged, well-educated man. According to the owner of the shop I read out of, he'd been there the previous day asking for a reader, but for some reason didn't want to sit with the one rostered on that day. I got him in, and asked my usual opening question, was there an area of his life or a particular subject he wanted the reading to focus on. He said no, he just wanted me to do my stuff. So I used a general spread, that pulls a few cards for home, a few for work, money and business, a few for the heart, and a few for health. He let me talk on all of these things for the entire length of the (timed) reading. After I finished and it was time for him to leave, he told me what the real issue was, and it was something easy enough to read about, but nothing that would have come up on my "general" spread. As a result of his wish to test me, he wasted the entire half-hour, and got two minutes on what was actually vitally important to him.
Another client, several years earlier and in another venue, asked me to "read on his past first" before he decided whether I was good enough to read on his future.
Another client at that same previous venue, asked for a past-present-future reading, and I complied. Afterwards when they were paying the shop-owner, I overheard them saying I was brilliant on the past and brilliant on the present, but they were certain I was completely wrong on the future <grin>.
