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Durto wrote:I don't really like to hand out the deck and tell them to continue the show. Sound a bit condescendent (sp!) to me and it doesn't resolve anything except to upset them more... don't work against them, work with them! If they really get annoying then leave, but with class!

I agree. I wouldn't want to make them feel bad.

BTW, you restaurant workers, ever do a trick to a table then have 1 of them say they're also a mage, or they have that trick, or etc? What did you do?

Option wrote:BTW, you restaurant workers, ever do a trick to a table then have 1 of them say they're also a mage, or they have that trick, or etc? What did you do?

Fortunately this has never happened to me. I like to think that magicians would respect another magician's performance and not try to hog the limelight.

If someone simply tells me that they are a magician themselves and they don't comment on the individual tricks, it is sometimes good to make them feel included at certain times in your routine without making them seem like the main magician. Simply let them sit quietly and get a warm feeling for being 'in the know'. That way they tend to leave you alone for the rest of your routine.

I think that Ammar's first Easy to master Card Miracles has a part at the end about "etiquette toward other magician"... It has some great advice but giznorm has well summed them up

It depends on the situation, but you can make it a positive (of sorts). Hmmm... Let me think of something so basic that it's OK to discuss it... Right: the Piano Trick (extreme example for the sake of discussion - most adults will figure it out anyway). You say, 'Yes. Isn't it fascinating? Watch...' go through the trick 'See, you make a point of saying 'One, two' to emphasise the 'even' aspect, and you also call it 'the odd card'? See? It's the psychology that's so interesting.' Do this in a conspiratorial, enthusiatic way. Everyone's now with you, and equally intrigued by the how people's minds work and can be influenced. Any exposure of a 'silly', 'stupidly simple' sleight or method is forgotten as you all delve into the circuitry of the human brain. You're not revealing a secret - the git who exposed it has already done that - and it ends up looking as though you actaully wanted to reveal the method as a way in to an interesting discussion. Then, 'Here - look at this one...' You're all together in an investigation now, and you can do ANYTHING. Ring on to elastic band, say. 'Watch - even what you see, can be what you can't possibly have seen.' Out of This World - suggestion, or 'picking up non-verbal cues'.

Everyone leaves happy and full of admiration for you. Then, on the way home, you can quietly slash the tyres on the spoiler's car.

Sexton Blake wrote:It depends on the situation, but you can make it a positive (of sorts). Hmmm... Let me think of something so basic that it's OK to discuss it... Right: the Piano Trick (extreme example for the sake of discussion - most adults will figure it out anyway). You say, 'Yes. Isn't it fascinating? Watch...' go through the trick 'See, you make a point of saying 'One, two' to emphasise the 'even' aspect, and you also call it 'the odd card'? See? It's the psychology that's so interesting.' Do this in a conspiratorial, enthusiatic way. Everyone's now with you, and equally intrigued by the how people's minds work and can be influenced. Any exposure of a 'silly', 'stupidly simple' sleight or method is forgotten as you all delve into the circuitry of the human brain. You're not revealing a secret - the git who exposed it has already done that - and it ends up looking as though you actaully wanted to reveal the method as a way in to an interesting discussion. Then, 'Here - look at this one...' You're all together in an investigation now, and you can do ANYTHING. Ring on to elastic band, say. 'Watch - even what you see, can be what you can't possibly have seen.' Out of This World - suggestion, or 'picking up non-verbal cues'.

Everyone leaves happy and full of admiration for you. Then, on the way home, you can quietly slash the tyres on the spoiler's car.

A very nice idea mate!
Very sensible.

Until we get to the closing paragraph.
I love it