One day when we were driving to the airport to pick up our au pair my Dad exclaimed with real worry in his voice 'Oh no I'm running out of petrol, quick Alice do your magic - we need a petrol station right now.'
I said 'Abracadabra please make a petrol station appear.'
Less than a minute later we turned around a bend and there it was - I was amazed
After that Dad often asked me to do my magic when we were running low on fuel. He always injected a degree of urgency into the scenario.
It was great - I remember feeling so incredibly special and useful.
I was about 10 when I realised Dad knew where all the petrol stations were
and was 'engineering my magic.'
A childhood belief about magic tricks
others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- When I was a child I used to believe in the magic— Mohammed Samoan
- when i was 6 i used to believe that birds were magical creatures and used magic to fly— Serriu
- I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.— Anonymous
- When I was a sprog, I used to think that Rainbows were painted in the sky by magic fairies— Jojo