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if you cringe when ever someone trys to do the card trick to you that involves dealing out three collums, and then three rows.

When your significant other suggests going to bed early, (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and you reply, 'just one minute I'm working out this card shift'.

When you walk into a department or home improvement store and you look at every item and think 'hmm, how could I use that in a magic trick' And your wife is asking you why you are looking at the dishwasher soap like that?

when you don't own an un-gimmicked wallet

When you know that Bicycle playing cards used to be made in Cincinnati, Ohio, but have now move.

you shuffle a pack of cards for almost an hour because its like a comfort sort of thing....Well thats what i do.

When you hear on the radio "now here's the news with Chloe Potter on Magic FM" and can't help but be amused at the irony.

When leaving home you have a routine that includes keys, phone, inhaler and a deck of cards.


...and you go back for the cards if you forget!

When you have been handling your deck for too long and you keep the shape of it in your hands.

Invisible shuffling if you like.

When no one wants to play cards with you for money.

Mandrake wrote:when you use the Search Function and find this old thread http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic1717.php

That's what I meant!

...when the guy at the airport asks to see your ID and your hand reaches for the cards in your inside pocket...

isb wrote:...when the guy at the airport asks to see your ID and your hand reaches for the cards in your inside pocket...

LOL, done that at customs no less.

when you can't resist adding a 12 pack of sharpies to your work stationary order - mine have just arrived

You find bits of soggy playing card all over your freshly washed clothes

you buy all sorts of random things off of ebay in an attempt to find the perfect final load for the cups and balls routine

You could re-create the passing of Haleys comet with the amount of flash paper and wool you have in the house

After removing the top from a bottle of beer you can't help classic palming the cap and doing a few false transfers - even when you are alone.

After your wife drops a glove on the coast path you go back to find it, but pretend to have not found it, then later produce it as the final load in the cups and balls routine...

When, rather than asking "how are you", the first thing your Dad says is, "so Penn and Teller/Dynamo last week, how did they do it?"

And your wife is so brainwashed now, the second the performer is on stage she can't help herself "he could be doing this" "wonder why he went about it like that" "you should learn that one!"

When £15 is a reasonable price for a pencil.