Women Who Wine: Games of Skill and Chance

Vicky hosted our first event in 2018. We started with build your own chicken taco salads and margaritas followed by fortune fish telling and lots of laughter. Eleven ladies attended for this fun and filling event. Vicky outdid herself with delicious and bountiful ingredients for our taco salads, yummy margaritas followed by an after lunch aperitif.

LtoR - Debbie, Kelly, Judy, Carole and Pam

LtoR - Christy, Connie, Cathy and Vicky

Vicky had a Fortune Teller Miracle Fish for each of us. We all had to laugh when the curling and interpretations began!

Fortune Telling Fish

The wrapper has a list of emotions or feelings that “cause” the fish to curl and move in certain ways.

If you see just a moving head, it means jealousy.
A moving tail is a sure sign of indifference.
If you see a moving head and a moving tail, then… wait for it… you’re in love.
If the sides of the fish curl, then you’re fickle.
If the fish turns completely over, you are a false personality.
You don’t want to see a motionless fish because then you’d be dead.
If the fish curls up completely, it’s in response to the passionate side of your personality.

Oh my!

So here's the science behind this little fishy...

The plastic is hygroscopic which means it’s a water-finding material; it’s moisture sensitive. This property means the fish grabs onto the moisture on the surface of your palm and since the palms of human hands have a lot of sweat glands, the plastic is immediately bonded to moisture. The key is, however, that the plastic grabs water molecules only on the side in direct contact with skin. The plastic doesn’t absorb water molecules, it merely grabs them. As a result the moist side expands but the dry remains as it was. The plastic curls because the dry side pulls the expanding moist side around it. The curling movements come from the orientation of the polymer strands in the plastic. This is called the grain of the polymer. If the grain is oriented from head to tail, the strands curl the fish from head to tail. If the grain is oriented from side to side, the fish curls from side to side as well.