I think we move in different circles, I reckon I’d get strange looks and chucked out of the shop.
Incidentally, while earning pocket-money working in my dad’s greengrocer shop I learned to juggle, first with tea-bags (strange but true) and then with a variety of fruits from grapes to pineapples.
My tip? large satsumas are perfect. Just the right size for the hand and with a nice “squash” to make them less likely to bounce out.
I don’t know any magic tricks, at all, which is a shame because I love watching magicians perform. I doubt I could even pull any off - I don’t have the manual dexterity for it.
On a good day, I can juggle three balls for a ten-second stretch.
I do know one card trick, but it’s not so much a magic trick as it is a demonstration of some mathematical principle (or something). Also, it seems to have about a 10% failure rate (meaning it won’t work one out of ten times).
Arrange the deck Ace through King in each suit, Ace low. Have your mark make six cuts. Then deal out one card in each of seven spots - as if dealing a poker hand to each of seven players, while giving a narrative; “Seven sailors are playing poker, the drunkest one is dealing.” As you deal the second round of cards, skip #1 (so that spots 2-7 are dealt a card) and remind your mark that the dealer is so drunk he skips himself. Deal out the third card. Skip spot #1 again as you deal out the fourth card (“So drunk he skips himself again”). Then deal the fifth card. Spot #1 will only have three cards, 2-7 will each have five cards. If you did it right, spot #1 will have three of a kind, while spots 2-7 will have full houses. You tell your mark that the drunken dealer, realizing his mistake, deals himself five new cards. If the trick works, he will deal himself a straight flush.
I have a smal, brighly colored back pack full of magic tricks. Boxes of Fantasma brand tricks could be found in dollar stores and are of mostly good quality.
My manual dexterity is quite low. I cannot even juggle one ball. I mostly do tricks that work themselves rather than require fast and agile fingers. One trick, a color prediction cube, required a behind the back movement I wasn’t sure I could do. Then, I realized I could stall as long as I wanted if I found a reason for the box to be behind my back. So, at the start of the trick I announce that my magic powers are concentrated in my buttocks. Then, I take extra time behind my back to rub the magic box on my butt. Kids think it’s disgusting and wonderful. People of all ages are so distracted by the butt, that I’ve fooled adults easily with a trick that cost me about a quarter.
I own a unicycle, but I really need a mentor.
I’m pretty good at balloon twisting. But, again, I need a mentor.
oh and here’s a pic of me in my latest clown outfit http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/Clown3.jpg
