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Do you ever do magic on every day occasions to people that don't really expect you to do magic for them?

For instance, I went to the mall with some friends a few days ago, eventually we went to the food court, so me and one of my friends vent to the Chinese food place, and I remembered that I had an IT rolled over one of my business cards ready for use that I had laying there since a party a week before, and I felt a bit naughty. so before we went there I loaded one end to my mouth and had the other in my hand with some wax, and then went with my friend to order, the clerk was some teenage girl so I knew this is going to be good, so I went to the cash register to pay and before I pulled out my wallet I stuck the wax to the counter. Then took out a bill and acted like I think it's a fake bill and started rubbing it against my shirt (at that point I guess the girl thought I'm quite insane), talking about the fact that real bills usually receive static electricity, then I took the bill and made it sort of suspend from below my finger (like it is stuck to it) and for a slight moment I took my finger away to rub it (like Ammar did on his DVD), and then said "well I guess it's real" and took it away with my hand, and before I moved to give her the money she went crazy looking at my eyes almost screaming "how did you do that?!" and then started looking all over the place for the hidden camera, and I said "it's not me it's the bill, you want to see it again?" knowing what the answer going to be,
so then I rubbed it against my shirt again and made it move and then levitate off my hand and then all by it's own free in the air, moving my hands around to show "no strings", and then slowly landed it back on my hand and gave it to her, she freaked out, you could see she was shaking when she opened the cash register! So then when she gave me the change she asked again "how did you do that?", so all I did was to put the change in my wallet, place on the counter one of my business cards and wink to her.

I think it was one of the strongest reactions for a magic trick/effect I have ever got, I will be doing this to poor clerks a lot more I will tell you that!

Brilliant!!

I really think this kind of magic is the best.
Removed from formal performance situations where the audience has an "expectation" out into the real world.
Not as so-called 'Street Magic', "Do you wanna see a trick?".
But doing the kind of things you really would do if you could REALLY do magic.

Well done!

excellent! i love this kind of thing. there's a guy at a bar near me who now always comes to serve me because he knows i'll produce a note to pay him with from thin air or something.

i had a good moment at a poker game when i was playing with a few friends of friends, they handed me the deck to shuffle so i did a few sybils cuts and a one handed riffle shuffle and there was 3 guys just staring at me, smugness ensued! i also like the idea of doing a really casual card spring while picking up the deck and saying "so, what are we playing then?"

and of course, i always have a deck of cards about my person so everyday magic is everyday!

I work in a little village shop and frequently do stuff over the counter, mostly a coin vanish to distract kids while mum is shopping or a swami for adults 9name of first pet etc). It's a laugh and I get to practice.

I really should have practiced more this morning. I'm being picked up in 40 minutes to go and do a gig at a BBQ and I'm genuinely worried about how it's going to go

Tomo, im sure things will be fine, i too have had a experience where i did magic like this, it is mainly involving my tt and normally a cigerette, which always gets a good reaction

mattmagic wrote:Tomo, im sure things will be fine, i too have had a experience where i did magic like this, it is mainly involving my tt and normally a cigerette, which always gets a good reaction

Things went far better than expected. I frame things as experiments, so being "nervous" and having a big bag to root about in really added to the mess of it all. I had a good crowd, went on after an acoustic guitarist after a bit of stagemanaged "pushing" and it was a great reception with a lot of good crowd laughs and reactions. It was very hot, though and I sweated a pig.

The best bit, though, was walking home with a tin of Wife Beater in one hand and a red D'Lite in the other. There are a lot of pedestrian crossings along the way and the number of cars that slowed down because some random idiot had stolen a light off them was great. Serious break lights in evidence

Glad to hear it mate, this is the start of great things

When u going to be on the telly???

A quick "snap-change" while I'm stoped at red lights has gotten me some great reations from other motorists and thier kids... lots of fun.

mattmagic wrote:Glad to hear it mate, this is the start of great things

When u going to be on the telly???

Oh deary me, no! Never!

Drive-by magic, I like it! Sometimes in a traffic jam I will whip out a pack of cards and maybe do a few flourishes and colour changes, obviously you're limited in what you can do without shouting out the window at someone to call out "Stop!" at any time that they like...obviously it's not a good idea to do any sort of magic whilst driving or trying to show it to someone in another car who's driving either...that way leads to many accidents .

I personally like the style of down-played magic; for example something happens to your pen as you are busy trying to do something else and you don't call attention to it at all - just act as if everything is normal - and hey presto, just watch the reactions!

I once had a card emergency and I needed a deck of cards in a hurry so I stopped at a convenience store along my way and asked if they had cards..... the clerk who worked there showed me a bunch of cheap playing cards with weird pictures on them and stuff so I told her I really needed Bicycles or Bees. She asked: "What for, do you do magic or anything?" So I said yes.... to which she replied, "I know everything - some people have tried magic tricks on me before and I always know how it's done - you can't fool me.." with an air of playful defiance. I just shrugged and said that that was because the guy that did the magic trick hadn't studied magic very well...
She found the Bikes, so I went to the cash and paid with my debit card and when she gave it back to me, I said thanks, said goodbye, and then looked at her and said "watch" - I did a throw vanish with the debit card and walked out of the store as she stood there open-jawed in utter disbelief. It was priceless.

Tomo wrote:The best bit, though, was walking home with a tin of Wife Beater in one hand and a red D'Lite in the other. There are a lot of pedestrian crossings along the way and the number of cars that slowed down because some random idiot had stolen a light off them was great. Serious break lights in evidence

What in the world is a tin of wife beater?!

I had a great moment at a poker game once, too. I was offered a brand new deck of cards to shuffle, and after about a minute of shuffling, dealt out a hand... We were playing Texas Hold 'Em, and surprise surprise, I had two aces. I then shuffled the cards again, and went on to explain to my playing friends (or victims, as I told them I thought of them) that in Hold 'Em, even having the aces doesn't guarantee a win, which is why I always preferred straight poker. The next hand I dealt gave me four of a kind Aces, lovely stuff.

So now I took the cards back and slipped the Aces into the deck, showing they were split apart. Again I shuffled, finished with a few false cuts (the names of which I don't know unfortunately, but nothing fancy) and said we could get on with the game again. I dealt the cards again...and again had four aces.

These were three lads who had been ribbing me all week about how they were going to take my money.

I say it was a great moment because of the looks on their faces after I dealt those hands. Especially that third one. But it wasn't that great because I've never been invited back to one of their card nights!

Farlsborough wrote:What in the world is a tin of wife beater?!

Stella Artois!