The results are in and I have to say that my predictions were accurate! Or they were split and I was half wrong. It's all in how you look at it. Like if I said I was eating crow and by that you thought I was admitting I was wrong when the whole time I was really bragging because crow is delicious-er than grouse and harder to hunt for. Sorry, that was just idiotic.
When I said that Carrie and Andrea would both have baby boys I also said that such guesswork could be equated with the tossing of a coin; with chance. And you know what?
I was totally right! Well, I was right and wrong, and that is what flipping a coin is all about: 50/50. So, I was completely right.
But still I feel it necessary to amend the analogy. I think I am vindicated in stating the similarities between guessing the sex of a baby and a coin toss, but there is one notable difference that Carrie and Andrea's deliveries bring to my mind. With the traditional calling of 'heads or tails' it is usually a good luck/bad luck dichotomy. By that feature the analogy breaks down completely, because if you're calling 'girl or boy' then (right or wrong) the outcome is good luck or equally good luck! Oh, that's "Nature Boy" Rick Flair sporting a modified "White Lightning" Dwight Falcons Jersey while tossing a silver dollar. Please add that jersey to my xmas wish list!
So here's how it all shook out: I thought Carrie would have a boy and I was Wrong.
They had me eating crow for awhile there when she, Zack, and Emmy welcomed Waverly Mae, leaving the gender ratio even more unbalanced for Zack.
Then there's Andrea. She and my big brother Andy (along with Henry and Victor) totally redeemed my prediction record by delivering the baby boy that chance foresaw. Santiago Martin was born in Providence Hospital... the very same place where Kasha was born!
What do these outcome say about the coin toss that predicted the pickle will be a baby girl? I think the pattern proves that I will be right! No matter what happens, it's up to chance and I'll be super lucky!
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