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Discovering What Doesn't Change by Jake Johnson
May 14th, 2012 1:53 PM
A trip down memory lane in which I broke a plastic fork.
This task sent me scavenging in my time capsule of a closet, where I found my old magic tricks. I loved those things, even though I never got some of them to work. I found some old teensy handbooks and thought i could use those, but then...
I saw the Container.
The Container is the most annoying magic trick I've ever used. I'm not sure if I ever got it to work, but if I did, it stopped working a long time ago. I don't even remember what it's called, but the Container is as good a name as any. The trick is meant to be a "turn x dollars into $100" deal, with a secret compartment in a glass tube which holds the fake $100 bill. Except one day, I put it in backwards (maybe) and it was stuck there forever.
That was years ago, and probably before my adolescence. Yet, there it was.
So, I took it to the kitchen to see if I could finally open it.
I couldn't. At least, not with my nails. I tried jiggering it with a plastic fork, but two of the tines broke off. I had a stroke of luck with a butter knife, but all I did was crack the casing. Realizing that there was only one thing to do, I butterknifed the case in half, took out the hidden compartment, and finally retrieved that fake hundred dollar bill.
Take that, Fantasma Magic.
This task sent me scavenging in my time capsule of a closet, where I found my old magic tricks. I loved those things, even though I never got some of them to work. I found some old teensy handbooks and thought i could use those, but then...
I saw the Container.
The Container is the most annoying magic trick I've ever used. I'm not sure if I ever got it to work, but if I did, it stopped working a long time ago. I don't even remember what it's called, but the Container is as good a name as any. The trick is meant to be a "turn x dollars into $100" deal, with a secret compartment in a glass tube which holds the fake $100 bill. Except one day, I put it in backwards (maybe) and it was stuck there forever.
That was years ago, and probably before my adolescence. Yet, there it was.
So, I took it to the kitchen to see if I could finally open it.
I couldn't. At least, not with my nails. I tried jiggering it with a plastic fork, but two of the tines broke off. I had a stroke of luck with a butter knife, but all I did was crack the casing. Realizing that there was only one thing to do, I butterknifed the case in half, took out the hidden compartment, and finally retrieved that fake hundred dollar bill.
Take that, Fantasma Magic.
Five Wizarding Books and the Container
The Third Attempt Gets Results!
The Reveal
I apologize for my fingers being in the frame, but this bill was curved for years and I couldn't coax it into lying flat with anything short of an iron and daily massage therapy.
