When you're on the Café 10 hours per day...

When Dynamike's posts start to make sense.

You pitch snake oil along with your Svengali decks...

When you can pitch Svengali decks like Nolan Ryan can pitch baseballs.

When you start to appreciate and enjoy the Svengali deck tricks.

Posted: Sep 3, 2009 11:35am
When you start making your own Svengali decks with giant cards so you can perform on stage.

When you are in prison practicing magic all day.

When someone asks for your card and you say, "Pick one....."

When you take a bow and give yourself a round of applause.

When you mourn the September closing of the Lock Family Magic web site.

When you start making all kinds of magic tables so you have additional things to collect.

When you stick coins up your left nostril and beans up your right nostril so you can perform "Any coin or bean called for"... as an impromptu effect.

From the other end of the spectrum.

When you always carry a spare handcuff key and you happen to be in a car accident and the Xray technician wonders why you have a key "you know where".

He also wonders why you have a nail stuck in your sinuses, a bean in your eye, a horse hair stitched through your palm, lots of pricks from your hooked coin, Why there is a thread running through your hair with a piece of tape attached, a lead plate sewn in your pants leg, magnets in every pocket, wood cigarettes in your other pocket, coins that fall apart when you drop them on the table, a camera flash-unit around your neck, a finger ring that splits apart when he tried to remove it, a birdcage in one sleeve, something that's white and powdery in a baggy AND why they open your wallet one way to find your identification but they open it again and it's gone.

Then they find your business card and it reads "Magic for ALL occasions" so they ask if you can do any miracles to cure yourself, since you don't have insurance. So in all your pain you ask them to pick a card because you .... just have to....... have to... do the Magicians Insurance Policy trick because you hope they will think you're a good guy and give you the penthouse suite.

Now. That's when you're doing too much magic, eh?

You cry when Magic's Biggest Secrets is over...

When you handle coins like you would cards.

You buy a house near the Magic Castle...

When the wallpaper of your PC has a print screen image of the Café's front page.

You have to walk using your appearing cane...

You send out to everyone at the Café your picture so they can use it for their PC wallpaper.

You copy Lance Burton's act perfectly...

You won the 1st prize for being the best copycat acts in magic.

You use your vanishing cane (done it twice) to board an airplane early, to use the overhead, over your seat.