"Do you believe in magic....?"

[Jester]

My friends apparently do.

After a legendary and debaucherous night hanging out with three crazy chick friends, I crashed out on the couch in Boston's living room, and Boston and Little Red crashed out in Boston's bedroom. (I had put Rey in a cab earlier in the evening, as she was toast.)

This morning, when they woke up, they saw I was gone. The front door was locked form the inside. The back gate was locked. They asked me if I jumped out the window. I told them (truthfully) that I did not. "So how did you get out?"

I told them very simply, "I'm a magician."

Let them figure it out.

[Caveat Emptor]

I read the topic, now I've got the Lovin' Spoonfuls running through my head...

[Plaidman]

You ether have a spare key, or you just locked the front door on your way out. I do that all the time. Unless you mean the deadbolt.

In that case, um... through the garage?

Maybe they were so hungover they didn't know what was going on when they let you out?

Hm. PM and tell me, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

[draggar]

Either though another door (as Plaidman said) or you loced the gate from the outside (you can do that with shorter ones) or you jumped over the gate.

I'm assuming "locked from the inside" means a deadbolt etc.?

[Plaidman]

Either though another door (as Plaidman said) or you loced the gate from the outside (you can do that with shorter ones) or you jumped over the gate.

I'm assuming "locked from the inside" means a deadbolt etc.?

Indeed it is a deadbolt. Also it wasn't through the garage. I did managed to figure it out though. Only took half hour.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Indeed it is a deadbolt. Also it wasn't through the garage. I did managed to figure it out though. Only took half hour.

doggie door?

[Plaidman]

doggie door?

That was a guess of mine too. But he said no, and even if there was one, he was to drunk to have gone through one, even if it was big enough.

[Jester]

Plaid was texting me much of the day, and figured it all out about the same time the girls did. (I was out drinking with them again today. Shocking, I know.)

First of all, despite their insistence that I had to have gone out the window, I didn't. Not in any way, shape, or form. As I told them, had I done so in my severely hungover (and still slightly fucked up) state, I would have broken my neck like a plate at a Greek wedding.

There was no doggie door. There was no garage. They did not let me out and forget about it. I did not have a spare key. I did not rig the deadbolt to lock behind me. No one else came by and let me out and locked up after me. I did not crawl out the roof, under the house, or through a ventilation shaft. There was, in fact, nothing fancy about what I did. I simply walked out.

"But.....huh?" Yeah, I know. Now I'll explain.

The front door was locked and I did not want to leave it unlocked. The back sliding glass door was wide open from the night before, and let out into the fenced in back yard. Which had a gate to the driveway. A self-locking gate. You know the type, you lift the latch, go out the gate, it closes and latches itself. Simple, easy, no muss, no fuss. I just walked right out of there, effectively leaving the property locked without having a key to lock it up with.

But the girl who lives there, who has lived there for years, apparently never thought of the side gate. Not once. Not until seven hours or so after I left, a few minutes before Plaid (after asking me many questions via text) finally did. And unlike her, Plaid had no knowledge of or experience with the layout of the property.

I merely used my friends' momentary idiocy to make myself look mysterious, knowing full well that eventually they would figure it out.

But it was just to tempting to fuck with them. "How did you get out and leave the place locked if you didn't go out the window?" "I'm a magician."

I like fucking with my friends' heads. And sometimes, they just make it too damn easy!

[draggar]

Yeah, it would have been easier to figure out if we had seen the property.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I considered that you went out a different door but that seemed too obvious. Then again, when you're drunk/hungover...

[Jester]

Yeah, it would have been easier to figure out if we had seen the property.

Well, of course. But I was giving you their perspective. And for whatever reason, in their minds, the backyard gate didn't even exist.

Ah, hangovers. Nature's reminder that you had too much fun.

[JustaCashier]

So, will we be seeing this acted out on an upcoming episode of that Magician's secrets revealed show?

Mike

[Jester]

So, will we be seeing this acted out on an upcoming episode of that Magician's secrets revealed show?

The chances of my appearing on one of those shows as anything other than a critic and/or heckler of the magicians doing the revelations is less than zero, my friend.