I ran into the most egregious example of a kind of behavior I've witnessed on rare occasions, namely, manipulating the cards while they are in my hands. I took steps to handle it, and almost pulled things off with a spontaneously modified trick. But then the behavior became even more egregious and the spectator engaged in vastly more excessive manipulation of the cards (again, while they were in my hands.)
How do you deal with spectators who physically GRAB the cards while you're holding them and do things with them? Witty repartee? Clever mocking? Moving to an entirely new trick which requires no handling? Telling them they're complete jerks?
I know this isn't common. In the rare cases in which it occurs, it can usually be worked around. And I'm pretty sure I happened to stumble upon the incredibly rude wife of some kind of lame card magician. (That's what she told me, at any rate.) But she wasn't the only person around, and she actively attempted to physically interfere multiple times by repeatedly snatching cards out of my hands.
Any thoughts on how to best deal with this kind of horrible behavior?
How do you deal with spectators who physically GRAB the cards while you're holding them and do things with them? Witty repartee? Clever mocking? Moving to an entirely new trick which requires no handling? Telling them they're complete jerks?
I know this isn't common. In the rare cases in which it occurs, it can usually be worked around. And I'm pretty sure I happened to stumble upon the incredibly rude wife of some kind of lame card magician. (That's what she told me, at any rate.) But she wasn't the only person around, and she actively attempted to physically interfere multiple times by repeatedly snatching cards out of my hands.
Any thoughts on how to best deal with this kind of horrible behavior?
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