Do I Look Like Isaac Newton?

Is it possible to cheat in a coin toss?  Oh, I don't mind the time-(un)honoured way of using a double-sided coin.  I mean is it possible to influence the trajectory of a tossed coin, maybe with sleight of hand, or sleight of thumb as you flick the thing into the air.  Some kid at my son's birthday party yesterday seemed to think so.  Two kids were debating which of them should have the privilege of riding in the front of the vehicle with me on the way home from the bowling alley in the next town, where my youngest celebrated the momentous occasion that is turning ten.  Double figures and all that.  I said I would toss a coin and we would leave it to Fate.  A rather full-on chap called 'heads', and the other contender called 'tails'.  And I flicked the coin good and true, with honesty.  It spun into the air, and turned a couple of times like an Olympic diver before landing on the chewing-gummed floor.  I snatched it up and turned it over on my wrist with a slap, pronouncing, 'Tails!', and that the quieter of the two would be in the front.  The 'heads' kid seemed to want to challenge the laws of physics and Fate, and asked how the coin fell.  Although completely exasperated, I did manage to hang on to my shit, and told the kid I have no idea of the physiology of a falling coin, nor how the trajectory is patterned post-launch.  Strewth, do I look like Isaac Newton?  I've been told I look like Kate Bush, but never Isaac Newton.  Call me shallow, but I'm glad of this.

Anyway, the more pushy of the kids ended up in the front of the car with me, possibly through strong-arm tactics, or possibly because the other kids decided they didn't want to listen to him challenging and debating the logistics of a coin toss over the thirty minute drive.  Or maybe the quieter of the two realised it would be a more comfortable journey to sit in the back of the car, when said car is travelling west at 3.30pm, and only the driver possesses sunglasses.  If this is the case, well done on your clever thinking, young man.

I am still to get my radio interview on the You Tube channel.  I will do this when my furniture is replaced.  I am at present sitting at a desk with our new computer, but it's not a proper computer desk and chair (which has been ordered), and it's very ergonomically rooted, and I'm starting to ache.

Ciao for now.