Basement

I have an exceptionally big basement.

That's what this palmist told me. She looked at my hands at a party. Then she looked at my hands. She'd been giving people quick readings for fun.

She looked at my hands and said, "Can I take prints of your hands sometime? I've never seen features like these before." She wanted to come to my house, on her time, to take prints of my hands and give me an extensive free reading. That's too weird to pass up. I had her over.

There are, it turns out, many strange things about my hands. She said I had a big basement. This means that one of the quadrants on my palms is exceptionally large. This segment pertains to my ability to access and revive elements from my past. Most people have normal "basements" and can only keep so much old stuff there before they need to get rid of it. Not me. I can store inordinate amounts of stuff from my past and I'm able to revive and relive the past quite easily. Not only do my palms say this is true, but it is, in fact, true. I also have philosopher's fingers.

The really odd thing, though, is that my pinkie fingers have only two segments. Everyone else has three. I have the correct number of knuckles but on the palm side the finger is broken into only two segments. I asked my immediate family and I'm the only one with this trait. It took her a long time to figure out what that could mean and in the end she could only guess.

If you're a palmist, take a look and let me know what you think.