The night was Monday December 17th of this year, my birthday. My father was out of town so it was only me, my mom and brother who went out for dinner at the local East Side Marios. Normally when I go out in public I always prepare myself for performing, even if I don’t want to or don’t plan to. I took along a deck of cards (rigged with a few duplicates, and set up to do delirium and 2 card monte) and had 2 loops around my wrists. So were eating some bread and drinking a beer, and my mom comes up with the subject of magic. I explained it was only a hobby to do at bars, or for friends, and in no way wanted a career in it (well...it would be nice, but id need to make a ton of changes).
One of the very attractive waitresses, who I had seen in my local pub a few times, who also noticed me for performing magic, overheard our conversation and had asked me to perform for her. I pulled out my cards, and started with the delirium effect. The four 2’s were on top, and she chooses a card which is placed face down on the table and the corresponding 2 is shown (say her card was queen of hearts, so the 2 of hearts is the corresponding one) and then wave above the selected card on table. The 2’s are spread showing one card face down, the 2 of hearts was missing, but it was actually the selected card, and the 2 was on the table. So she began to go nuts, screaming, calling over her co-workers. This got the attention of several families sitting around our table and began to get up, a crowd gathered around me. Believe it or not, this was the first time my mother saw me performing at all, as her and my dad are not very supportive when they see I have 20+ decks of cards...lol. So she was speechless also, not knowing that her son was the next coming of Jesus
I then began to do some basic tricks, 2 card monte, producing the first 2 cards “inside” the pocket of one of the kids from another table. Our meal arrived after this, and some of the folks went back to their seat, but many wanted me to do one more trick. I didn’t feel like doing another card trick, and I had no elastics to do the floating elastic with my loops. Maybe it was the beer, or maybe it was the adrenalin high from performing, but i proceeded to take a short strand of spaghetti from my dish and yes, you guessed it, began to levitate the spaghetti with my loops.
Not only was it my birthday, but I had a very successful performance. And the best part was, not only did I get my meal free, but it came with a phone number from the waitress.
