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		Mission 5. The Invisible Pen

	Here's the scenerio: You approach a cashier with a few indispensable purchases i.e. milk, eggs, cat shears, whatever. Not being the type to tote actual cash around--perish the thought-- you whip out your trusty checkbook and open it up. You then proceed to remove an ostensibly invisible pen from your pocket and fill out the check, which looks suspiciously blank. Putting the pen away, you tear the check out and fork it over. Before the cashier can ask if you're a wise ass or if appropriate mental health specialists should be notified, he/she glances down and sees that there's now writing on the check! Score: Magic Anarchist 10. Cashier--what the hell... This is simplicity itself. Simply have a check already filled out and endorsed second from the face. Of course you'll have to know in advance the amount your purchases will total, or you can do what I do and just ask if you can write the check for say ten or whatever would be a small amount more than the total. Mime taking out an invisible pen and writing on the check. Don't make a production of this--keep it simple. Try to avoid waft of bad breath exiting from the cashier's open mouth. Put away your invisible pen and lift the checkbook, using its upper flap to block the cashier's view, and tear out the second check down. You might pre-crease this a bit to make it easier to remove. Anyway, once it's out hand it over and wait for the gasp, smile, scream, or curses. And that's it. I always keep a real pen handy in case they want to see the pen I used. This really drives them crazy. In this mission method is nearly non-exsistent. It doesn't matter. Because you're not presenting it as a magic trick, it will have much more power. If your presentation is sound. And if you get nothing else from this site, I hope you get that: Presentation is what really counts. It's what turns a dumb trick into a miracle.

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