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My ability to predict the future is annoyingly accurate for useless things. If I happen to think of an episode of TV, I am never surprised to find it on when I flip channels. If I happen to be singing a song, it is not at all surprising for me to turn on the radio and hear it playing.
I often pick up the phone on the first ring because I happen to have gotten up to stand near it when it rings. (For some reason it totally fails with cellphones. Don’t know why.)

Anyhow, it is surprisingly accurate and totally useless at the same time. Until today.

Yesterday I bought some soda and left it in the car. This morning I was too lazy to bring it in to work because I knew I had enough for this morning. I went out for lunch, lost my normal parking place, and had to park in a very sunny spot in the hot afternoon sun.
About an hour an a half later I was sitting in my office talking with the guy across the hall about our project, when I got a funny feeling.
I stood up and started walking out to the parking lot.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“My soda is in danger,” I said.

As I walked to the car, I thought about it sitting in the back seat in the sun on a 90 degree day. I opened the door reached for it and just as my hand wrapped around the bottle cap, I heard a hiss and some of it started to leak out.
I took it out of the car, tightened the cap so the leak stopped, and then brought it into my office where it cooled off.

“Did your soda explode in your car?” the guy across the hall asked me.
“No, but it was a very close thing,” I said, showing him the bottle that was bent out at the bottom due to the pressure.

So, at least I know what it is good for. Not lottery tickets. Not stocks. Not gambling. But, it keeps my car seats dry.