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Last night, a coworker had a birthday party and one of his relatives or friends, whatever, was a mentalist.
He had a few amazing card tricks, spoon tricks, but what got me, was how he guessed a name.
He gave me his business card and had me write down the name of a person nobody present knew. I went away from the table and made absolutely sure nobody was peeking over my shoulder. I folded the card up and observed very closely as he took the card and handed it over to my coworker. He did not open it to peek, I swear. And she was not in on it; she didn't know the guy I wrote down, and she is also stupid enough to believe my birthday is on February the 30.
He then did this:
1. Said I haven't seen the person in a while. True, but the guess is obvious as we tend to write down names of people we long for because they mean so much.
2. He then had me stretch out my arms and wave them up and down, saying left is female, right is male. I thought I was doing the same motion with both of them but he guessed right. Fine, people tend to be right-handed and the concept of right sides, being right, and the right things and guesses are obvious guesses. This wasn't impressive either.
3. He told me to count to ten to guess how many letters are in the name and he guessed right because I snorted at four - obviously I gave that away. Okay, lame.
4. He asked me to think of a letter. I guessed Reish (Hebrew R), he guessed Alef (A, or any vowel), fine, his name contains both letters and Alef is a common damned letter in any name. I didn't say what the actual letter was.
And he writes down the Hebrew Ameer, who is my ex of sorts. Not only that, he guessed the far-from-obvious spelling as "my" Ameer is Arab and Jews among themselves usually assume everyone around them neatly keeps Arabs off the dating agenda. The Jewish "Ameer" is not with an Alef but with an Ayin which I know because my aunt tried to hook me up with an old geezer by that name.
There are so many names he could have guessed, but he guessed Ameer with atypical spelling.
He also twisted a spoon in my aforementioned silly coworker's weak little hand. I watched them closely. He had no chance to switch spoons. I know to watch the hands and not the face.
How???
He had a few amazing card tricks, spoon tricks, but what got me, was how he guessed a name.
He gave me his business card and had me write down the name of a person nobody present knew. I went away from the table and made absolutely sure nobody was peeking over my shoulder. I folded the card up and observed very closely as he took the card and handed it over to my coworker. He did not open it to peek, I swear. And she was not in on it; she didn't know the guy I wrote down, and she is also stupid enough to believe my birthday is on February the 30.
He then did this:
1. Said I haven't seen the person in a while. True, but the guess is obvious as we tend to write down names of people we long for because they mean so much.
2. He then had me stretch out my arms and wave them up and down, saying left is female, right is male. I thought I was doing the same motion with both of them but he guessed right. Fine, people tend to be right-handed and the concept of right sides, being right, and the right things and guesses are obvious guesses. This wasn't impressive either.
3. He told me to count to ten to guess how many letters are in the name and he guessed right because I snorted at four - obviously I gave that away. Okay, lame.
4. He asked me to think of a letter. I guessed Reish (Hebrew R), he guessed Alef (A, or any vowel), fine, his name contains both letters and Alef is a common damned letter in any name. I didn't say what the actual letter was.
And he writes down the Hebrew Ameer, who is my ex of sorts. Not only that, he guessed the far-from-obvious spelling as "my" Ameer is Arab and Jews among themselves usually assume everyone around them neatly keeps Arabs off the dating agenda. The Jewish "Ameer" is not with an Alef but with an Ayin which I know because my aunt tried to hook me up with an old geezer by that name.
There are so many names he could have guessed, but he guessed Ameer with atypical spelling.
He also twisted a spoon in my aforementioned silly coworker's weak little hand. I watched them closely. He had no chance to switch spoons. I know to watch the hands and not the face.
How???