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this happens to me sometimes.
when I'm falsing, people say, "oh, these card tricks are all the same, you just keep it at the top. it's all in the shuffle. my dad told me" or somethng like that. it normally is for me.
so i ask them "really?" and they normally say yeh. thats when i whip out a nice clean double and say, "so thats your card?" haha. their face is great

Mahoney wrote:Rather like the "oh I know this one", I hate it when I'm doing a trick for someone (who might be pretty enthusiastic about it) then their friend sitting behind them will say "oh I saw that!". Saw what! I haven't done anything yet! And if I did do something I would know if you saw it, I'm just thinking "errrm no you didn't". It's like they just shout out "I saw that" at random points hoping that they might 'get me'. I usually let them have their little smug moment and I nod or wink at them as if they are now in on the secret (which they are not). This usually keeps them quiet for the rest of the trick. But after that trick, avoid them!

Reminds me of the worst reaction I ever got. I was fooling around (at a friend's insistence), vanishing his wedding ring and making it reappear on my finger. This is easy, as my friend has much bigger hands than I do!

One guy insisted he saw it. To be fair, he might have done, but no one else said anything. So, was he just super honest, or was he the musical-loving (and singing...) attention-seeker in a kilt at an English wedding who couldn't stand anyone else having the limelight?

You tell me.

i'd go with the second one.
i hate fame seekers

I think it's possibly becasue some people can't stand mysteries. There's a triumph against the forces of darkness if they can blurt it all out and bring it intothe light. it's probably rooted in his childhood fears and a need to make sure everything's okay. Still a pain in the harris, though.

I get frustrated by the people who always want one more trick then when you fan the cards say oh i know this one. But what really gets my back up is the fame seeker who can't stand you being the centre of attention. Oh yeah the guys who go "can you do that trick that David Blaine did" no i can't "ahh your rubbish" yeah I'm rubbish i just walked on water, cured a leper, fed the 5000 and turned wine into dinner for 2 at the Grosvenor but because i can't do a David flipping Blaine trick I'm rubbish damn! Oh oh oh The guys who in the middle of your act say can i show you a trick and grab the cards and start doing the 21 card trick then get it wrong coz they're too drunk. oh yeah and the person that right from the start you know is going to be trouble and at the start of every trick goes i saw that u did such and such. er no i just took the cards out of the packet. needless top say i tend to move on if i meet these people

Oh man that reminds me of something that still comes haunting me in my head every time I perform near drunken, or just stupid friends.
It was my female friend's birthday party, and I knew she loves my magic and trusts me so I thought out a nice trick to do on her birthday, the plan was to do an ash revelation routine, but that the revelation will be on her arm and not mine, without she knowing it.
So the party night came, I told her that I want to perform a small trick for her birthday, she loved it, and in a few minutes she came and told me to prepare and that she is going to introduce me, and on the way I "marked" her (I wouldn't say more to not expose the trick) with her thinking I just accidentally rubbed her arm.
So at that point I was over my head that I pulled it off, she introduced me to everyone and said that I'm going to do a magic trick for her.
So there I started, forced the card on her, let her write the card name on a piece of paper, and just when I was pattering about voodoo and birthdays and how they work together, out of no where came another girl I know, drunk like a fly in a wine barrel, smelling of beer and cheap vodka yelling that I'm an attention whore and I have to do my magic even on someone else birthday, and then left to the bathroom, probably to throw up.
At that point it seemed like everyone forgot about the magic including me, so I tried to pull myself together along with the other people, my friend already forgot what the card was luckily some guy remembered it, and I could finish the trick, got the few gasps, but certainly not something you would expect for such a routine.

Being a magician is great, its opened many doors,made many friends,boosted my confidence, bolstered my wallet . However, I am no longer, 'just a guest' at parties. Without fail I will be asked/forced to entertain no matter how much I just want to kick back and enjoy a drink and a laugh. It seems to be a given that I would be willing to keep the children entertained while the adults party, or that if the DJ 'encourages' you enough over the PA system, then the guests will get a free show.

I guess like 'celebrities' we make a rod for our own back, courting publicity and attention one day and wanting anonymity the next, but if I were a plummer would I be asked to fix the boiler mid buffet, or a mechanic led out to the garage and expected to tune the family saloon ( I'm sure all you plummers ,mechanics will tell me different ) .
I've even arrived at a party to find posters up announcing "magician performing here tonight" , how do you cope with such requests? Should you bite the bullet and put on a show,even though it may be sub standard ? Do you politely refuse and risk bad 'word of mouth' getting round? Or do you just become a recluse

xenon

Out of curiousity, what is your solution for 'grabbers'? I've had problems with this myself -- and it's hard to find the borderline between being rude in return, or not being rude and still stopping the grab.

Kenton and Docc's "Duh" Factor from Wonder Words!

Rude magicians annoy me, as in those who show no respect for who they are performing for.