Nearly trapped intuition saved me

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This sis a along story - I had had unemployment problems in Australia I was looking for a butlers job , I returned to Lanchashire and in despperation this was 86 placed an ad in The herald tribune . n the only answer was someone wanting me to do money management I said I had no experience i this , but in desperation I had to take a chance . I got the national express fron Blackpool but all the way down I got the tummy wobbles I kept thinking this has something to do with drugs. After arrving at thotel I was informed that my interviewr had left I ask an anouncment over the tanoy he appeard and said I am having coffeeewith these two ladies ( I thought bleached blondes probably his wife and daughter ) He later said they were escourts ( from my part of the country ) Irrelevant .He was probably divorcing his wife in Peurto Rico and basing in Madrid He said the job was to go around the medeterrreanean and change currencies also to pick up businessmaen at ports . Curuious ? He said he was having the car ''fitted out in Nice'' ( yes a pattern was emerging Iam untrusting by nature ) asked why his Butler had left he said oh it was drugs ! I said if I came to work for him how would I get the flight ticket he siad he would send it to the airport I walked out and I felt his eyes on me and he must of thought i am the most stupid or wised up individual . My mother berated me but on the Tv that night was a report that 3 kilos of Herion had been found in a suitcase being smuggled in to America £ kilos was remarkable then they get that much under thier fingernails now My mother changed her tune and said oh those Peurto ricans will stab you as soon as look at you It coukld have been me ding the sentance not my mother if I hadnt heeded intuition I returned to Australia after only minimal success I actuall got a job as a bUtler unheard of in Australia ( certainly then not fashionable ) after 1 month and hit the 86 crash there so I was on the street homeless again I have intuition about meeting people by chance .It is only when I ignore my intuition and give someone the benifit of the doubt that I fall ,and boy am I angry with myself then !
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:39:15 +0000Coincidence ID:3946

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I came over to Europe to get a butlers Job I'd had a tough time e emotioanlly no work long term relationship breaking down both connected depression which made me ill equipted to handle life I landed in Frankfurt as I HAD PUT AN ADD IN THE LOCAL PAPER THAT GOT SCREWED UP someone kindly gave me a lift to Zurich I got on a tram picked up the newspaperand ther was an ad for a domestic help agenmcy The job I took on didnt work out I went to Stuttgart looked throught the papers and there was an add for Butler in the Area but it had been filled back to Oxford waitng for a chance then I saw an add it was the job again. Difficukties i had been warned by a palmist that I would pass through amny hands it seemed to be amy Karma at that time I now live a very closed in cautious life also predicted by tha palmist