He Must Have Read My Mind
I was standing there in front of about a hundred ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ colleagues, holding a brown enevlope and resisting all temptation to trade it for another one which contained fifty quid. No, this wasn't some absurd dream, but an audience event at Pacific Quay featuring 'mentalist' Drew McAdam.
Drew is an expert on memory, persuasion and lie detection and his talents are showcased in a new fourt-part series - School for Genius - which begins on Monday morning. In each programme we hear Drew as he goes into schools and workplaces and shares his various techniques with the people he meets.
Today he was doing that in front of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland staff who were leaning over balconies to get a look at him. At one point he chose me as one of his four "volunteers from the audience" as he distributed a number of brown envelopes and promised that one of them contained a fifty-pound note. If you kept the correct envelope you were allowed to keep the money.
Then he offered us all the chance to swap envelopes with him or each other. I stood my ground, despite all his efforts to persuade me to trade with him. Of course, when I finally tore open the enevlope it contained some lottery scratch cards.
Apparently Drew had realised from the outset that I was a stubborn, dig-you-feet-in kind of bloke and that nothing he said would persuade me to change my mind. He kept his money.
Worrying!
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