My Greatest Trick

It was the greatest magic trick I ever pulled off.

It was only my fourth gig, a birthday party for a friend of a friend of a friend, his 21st.

When I started, the birthday boy loudly declared that magic was stupid, but I continued anyway, and indicated a board I brought in, with playing cards stuck to it.

I began to explain he was going to pick one, and he grabbed one off the board.

I then, without seeing or touching it, made it appear under his chair.

Thank goodness he snatched the one I wanted him to take.