My
brother Matt was in school with me that year and he joined up the
debate team which meant that now we had double the joking and
pranking. One trip we were at a high school a hour north of our house
and when you are that far from home with no ride you have to wait in
place while all of the rounds end. Usually you just hang out with
your team joking and laughing but if there were some cute girls in
the area you might make an effort to get their attention. Matt and I
used to pretend that we were twins and then start a little street
magic banter about how we could read each others minds. When we had
some dim-bulbs hooked we would demonstrate our skills. Matt would
pretend to think hard about a number and I would pretend to think
hard and guess it. You are never going to believe this but I was
always right. We would start with easy two digit numbers and then
switch roles as we increased the difficulty to five and even six
digit numbers. Ideally we would get some sub-critical brain mass girl
who would be surprised every time and couldn't figure out the trick.
If all went well the others in the crowd would not let her in on how
we were doing it and she would just get more and more confused and
frustrated. She would not understand why everyone else was laughing
until we would feel too bad and let her in on the trick. Even then
some true believers would argue with us that we just had to have
known and we just had to be telling the truth. It was a fun trick
that worked much, much more often than it should have, especially
when dealing with people who were playing analytical word games.
Actually, there were drama events at the same time so maybe that is
who we kept tricking,
