28.3.08

RBP: Eating the coin.

Randomly Burned People.
Sometimes your just playing around with friends that know your an illusionist, when someone who hasn't had any warning about what you can do comes by at just the right moment...

Some friends and I are talking in a cafe that is part of an all-night grocery store. It's around 2AM and we're munching on banana chips.
I start throwing a half-dollar from one hand to the other, then bounce it off the table and into the other hand a couple times, and someone asks why I'm playing with a coin.
"If your going to learn coin tricks, you have to breath, sleep and eat it.
Then I toss the coin back and forth a couple more times, pop it into my mouth and crunch down on it. *munch, munch, munch* no more half dollar.
It gets a good responds from my friends, but then they look to my left and bust out laughing.
Walking past is a man with a basket full of groceries and a look of utter shock. Apparently he had been walking past just as I said the line, saw me pop the coin into my mouth and chow down, took a few steps backwards and uttered something along the lines of "wha... bu... how... uh" and quickly walked away.

I love the looks on peoples faces when that happens.

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