Fieldsite Study

I nervously walk into Psychic Readings by Amanda, with the foolish mindset that television has influenced greatly, thinking that when I walk in I will hear someone say "I've been expecting you". As I step foot in the door and take a look around the first thing I notice is a prayer session taking place. Both the psychic and the client are down on both knees next to the "reading" table, with the spiritual advisor leading the prayer. So as not to disturb the session, I remain quiet and inconspicuous while I observe the environment. There are lots of celestial pictures decorating the four walls and the aroma permeating the air smells of aromatic candles. I observe a lot of pictures of single eyeballs that are blended in with other images, it can be described as being analogous to the hidden image games placed on the back of cereal boxes where they ask you to see how many of a particular image you can find. There are a few shelves that contain different types of candles and also things for sale that are supposedly to rid clients of their bad luck or evil spirits. I also see tarot cards and different types of crystal balls which are props that are used to read people's pasts and futures. By this time the spiritual advisor is now aware of my presence and proceeds to head over in my direction. She asks me if I would like a reading done, and I tell her that I am just there to do an assignment for my college English class. At this point, she displays a look of disinterest and is clearly apathetic about my needs to complete my assignment. She then tells me she is not interested, and I walk out very slowly and reluctantly just to irritate her as much as she had just irritated me. As I walked back to my car, head hanging low ashamed for some reason from my rejection, I searched my thoughts for an explanation. The only thing I could come up with was that she must have been a fraud, a scam artist, a preyer. And as I thought of these reasons for why I was rejected, I made sure I yelled every explanation that I had come up with aloud to her at the top of my lungs before I proceeded to get in my car. Then I realized that she had actually helped me find another focus for my paper...PSYCHIC SCAMS!