weirdness is afoot

That is very spooky, Anna. However, I don't think that you are at all the sort of witch that has the evil eye. You were probably right not to touch the money unless you also immediately knew someone who needed exactly that amount. My grandmother had a similar prescience which appeared to exist mainly to protect her family. One day, when my mother was little, it was a very cold, gloomy, wet day and they were all in the living room happily reading and playing games by the fire, as one does on such days, when my Grandmother suddenly announced that they must all go for a walk. All the children protested, of course, but my Grandmother insisted and everyone put on their coats and scarves and boots and they went out. They hadn't gone very far when my Grandmother declared that it was time to go home now! When they got back, they found that the room they had been sitting in just a few minutes before was covered in broken glass. It seems that something on the road (there were no cars in those days) had kicked up a stone which had shattered the window and, if my Grandmother had not made them go out just at that moment, they would all have been badly hurt. There were several other incidents like this (my mother called them 'Happenings') and my Grandmother's 'feelings' were well known and respected. If one were discussing something one proposed doing with her and she advised a particular course of action, saying that she didn't know why it was best, just that she had a 'feeling' about it, you jolly well took her advice!

@owlwings I did not touch the money because I was sure that a security guard would have asked "if I had inserted a coin" and I know they videotape everything. I had several episodes like the one of your grandmother, call them feeling or prescience, but it happened more than once. The last time I went to Milan to see my mother, it was the end of November 2017. Her birthday was on December 13 and I told her that I would come on that day to celebrate together. I was sure in my heart we would have not celebrated, in fact she had an ictus only a few days before and she was in the hospital until her last day.

I think we are all blessed with sixth sense, but it's as natural to us as smelling and tasting. We've forgotten it's there. It's there in the little things ... thinking we'll phone somebody and suddenly our phone rings and it's that person, for example. Some people just have a far stronger sense than others.

A growing number of people seem to want to identify as 'green', whether their skin is pale or dark. Go figure (as they say in the colonies).

@owlwings Indeed. Green seems to be the 'mot du jour'. I think one's virtue is signalled to maximum strength by identifying as green.

I would like to identify as a lottery winner or a prize-winning novelist, but nobody is taking me seriously. *sad face*

No one can ever be too weird!

@Poppylicious i'm purty famous 'round these parts fer quick responses that throws folks off guard, lol.

I'm usually the person who thinks of the perfect response twelve hours later. Sometimes I surprise myself!

That was my most likely thought with the oven too. I think there's always a rational explanation for most things.