According to the story I heard a man was at the Atlanta airport one day waiting for a flight to New Orleans. He had a little time to kill. As he strolled the concourse he noticed one of those fortune-telling machines. He dropped a quarter into the machine and out came a card that read, "You are John Smith. You are 35 years old, and you are waiting for a flight to New Orleans." It was all incredibly true. He was absolutely shocked. Surely there must be a trick, he reasoned. He looked behind the machine. He even wondered if Candid Camera was back on TV. Then he took out another quarter to try the machine again. But this time he backed up to it. Out came the card that read, "You are John Smith. You are 35 years old, and you are waiting on a flight to New Orleans. John said to himself, "I hav…