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Not sure if this will have been posted by anyone already, so sorry if it has!

Has anyone had a embarrassing moment involoving magic? During an act or trick? anything?!

I have - last night for a fact, I was at a party and ended up doing tricks, and i was asked to do the ceiling card trick by a few people. So i decided why the hell not?.. Went really well.. Except one major problem

THE CARD DIDNT STICK TO THE CEILING!

I was rather gutted..expecially that later that night i was asked by another group to do it..and it worked.



SO DO TELL IF YOU HAVE ANY!!

That's when you should have made up some corny line for the mistake . That's what I do anyways.

I can't actually think of some embarassing moments, although there have been many. I think there was one where I was performing Sybil the trick which is quite a long effect, and then when the climaxes were coming, I found the wrong card... ahem... yeah.

On one of my first public performances, I opened with Holy Moly - which went OK, but the reaction was fairly muted and polite so I wonder if they cottoned on because it's usually very powerful.

It was a group with a few couples, so I chose the friendliest looking couple to do anniversary waltz for - usually a closer but I was cutting my routine short and wanted to end well. Of all the things to go wrong, I fluffed the bl**dy hindu force! They saw the double backer in the face up cards, I went red and just said, "oh, the cards must have been jumbled up... we'll try something else", pocketed the deck and grabbed my ropes. I went into a rope routine but because of the damp squib of the first effect, the total cock-up of the second effect, I was a nervous wreck - I ended up mumbling through it, losing track of where I was and cutting that one short as well.

I made my apologies and backed away quickly... not how you want the first performance of the evening to go

I had a long sit down and a stiff drink, then decided "blow it, it can't be any worse" and continued doing magic for other people. Everything went perfectly

lol thnakfully i didnt really have to make up a line, they were a bit drunk and still 'awwed' by some of the simpler tricks i had done before hand!

I have been relatively lucky with my performances (or is it just OCD to practise?) but anyway, only two REAL embaressing moments.

1.) Impromtu haunted deck...didnt haunt anyone when it cut to the WRONG card. Made up a silly line, mamanged to p**m their card off and say it really is haunted...your card has dissappeared.etc.

2.) Not really an embaressing moment, but a bit...annoying. Took out the purse frame for the start of my spongeball routine and I said..."it's an invisible purse" and someone called out.."no it's not, your just going to pull spongeballs out of it that were secretly hidden somewhere."
WOW what a downer.

There has been a couple of chop cup mishappens...gimmicks not quite..."working" if you understand, managed to get laughs out of it and cover my mistakes!

Restaurant I had a residency at was re-opening after a refurbishment. First night was invitation only so it was mainly the regulars which gave it more of a party atmosphere. Due to this I'd been asked to do a mini cabaret towards the end of the night after the table hopping and food, etc. I was asked to finish with card on ceiling to christen the new place as it was a favourite of many of the regulars. Only problem was the refit included a suspended ceiling, you know, those polystyrene tiles resting on a thin grid. I told the manager it wasn't possible and he said he'd thought of that, pointed to a particular tile and told me that he'd put stuff on the other side to weight it down. Result.

The evening went well and it's the end of the cabaret and the 'grand finale'; I've given it the big build up and I can't put it off longer - the pin goes up, the pack goes up, it's flying nicely, it hits squarely... it carries on going! I swear time switched to slow motion as I watched the pack hit the tile, the tile lift, the pack shoot up into the open space, the tile come back down, there was a dull thud and... nothing. The deck had gone. I'd managed to do card IN ceiling. The manager had told me the wrong tile! I'd just done a perfect deck vanish. As far as I know that pack of cards is still up there today!

I'd managed to do card IN ceiling.

Not such a bad result anyway!

It appears the card on the ceiling trick is a bit of hassle then and not ust for me!!

Fluffed up a DL once.

TBH I was drunk but thru the glory of alcohol my patter was able to cover it.

Im glad im not the only one with some embarrasing moments
cheered me up!!

I used to be clown. . .that is one long string of embarrassing moments.

oh I've had loads, last week I was doing my multiplying bunnies routine. I usually finish up with the production of a giant bunny.

The routine went really nicely, came to steal the giant bunny for the finish, which is usually tucked into the waist of my skirt. Went to steal the bunny but it wasn't there (it turned out latter that it was there, but I'd tucked it into the wrong side, I usually have it on the left side but silly me had tucked it into the right, more proof that magic and vodka don't mix).

Totally messed up my patter and left me without a finish. I did manage to recover and finish with a 2 in the hand 1 in the pocket (or 5 in the hand as it was) with the babies and then vanish mummy and daddy.

My worse had to be at one of my first proper gigs. I was with my first group and as I brought out the card I realised they were all mixed up weirdly so I handed them to a keen spectator who sorted them all out for me as I went on to another effect.
When I was handed them back every card effect was going wrong; my DL's were TL's, culls were messy etc.

I soldiered on with another 2 or 3 audiences with most of the card effects either failing or being very difficult to pull off...

it was after half an hour that I realised that my ID seemed to be missing from my pocket and my normal deck was there instead.

At least then I knew why the deck was weird at the beginning....

Brilliant - a textbook error! For those who are reading this, be encouraged - just because your first gig or so goes t*ts up, don't give up!

When I was at school I once ended up with my undies (bright red) hanging out of reach ten feet up in some climbing ivy. Nice contrast, for all to see, right outside my house. Don't ask.
In fact you could just see them from the maths class window, like a bright red beacon in the distance.

Someone at school 'accidentally' let it slip that they were mine. I returned home to find a group of about 50 people crowded round my gate laughing and pointing at them, including some girl that I fancied. I had to fight my way through them all to get in the house.

Magic couldn't have saved me there.