Bagless Purse Fun
For those who don't know what a bagless purse is, it's just a run of the mill change purse sans bag. That's right, it's just the frame. They're easy enough to make; just get an old style change purse and carefully remove the bag--that's it. The crazy thing is that people freak out over these because they're so incongruous. That's why I, and many others, use them to pull coins, sponge balls, silks and other things out of.
Okay, so now you have your bagless purse. Walk into your fave convience store, go back to the cooler and snag your favorite beverage, go up to the zombie eyed clerk at the front, let him/her/sometimes it ring up your purchase.Stuff both hands into your pockets. Finger palm a folded up buck in your left hand, and with your right bring out Mr. bagless purse.
You have to play it cold straight. Show so much as the hint of a smile and it's bye bye mission.
Let them get a good look at your bagless purse and your otherwise empty right hand. Don't display. This showing should appear incidental.
Now position your purse frame in standard fashion, held low between your left thumb and index finger. Open it. Reach in with your right fingers, pluck out the finger palmed bill and drop it on the counter. Bask in the waves of puzzlement coming off the clerk.
If asked what you're doing, play it dumb. Act as if everyone carries around a bagless purse. Is it a problem?
Quickly collect your change and flee premises.
I won't lie to you; to execute this mission properly will require guts. But, hey, if you have the nerve to pull it off I guarntee you you'll give that clerk something to think about. And they need that. If there's a more mind-numbing job around I don't know what it is.
If you don't have what it takes, move on to something that doesn't require as much interaction with your viewer. Or you could take up balloon sculpting. Sculpting, like it's some kind of art.
Note: If you can figure out a practical way of making the change you get back disappear when you drop it into the bagless purse, let me know. Usually I just finger palm the coins and pretend to dump them in and, while this works, it would be great if you could actually release the coins and have them vanish from your left hand.
