Question for the Guys

[SamIam]

I do readings for my friends just for fun from the I Ching or Chinese Book of Changes. I don't push this on anyone. I just mention that I do it if the subject of the Tarot or reading the cards or other methods of fortune telling happens to come up.

So tonight my friend Jim calls me and asks if I'll do a reading for him. Yeah, no prob. Come on over. I figured he was going to ask me about a career move or relocating to a new town - two subjects he's been talking about lately.

To my surprise, he said that he's considering starting to date again and he wanted to know if that would work out well for him or not. He said he has two women in mind. He told me that one was a cashier at the local grocery store, but he didn't say who the second was. Jim and I have been friends for over a year and have a lot in common. Lately, he's been calling me more often and wanting to get together, but we've never been on what you'd call a date. But he's started asking me if I wouldn't like to take a trip with him somewhere out of this little town where all people do is gossip.

Do you think his fortune telling question was his little way of testing the waters with me? Or was he just trying to get the feminine perspective from his old pal Sam as to whether women still think he's hot?

I just played it cool, but, as a matter of fact, I'd be willing to take things up another notch and see what happened. So what do you guys think?