The Spoon Trick

Mike Hammer: Mrs. H always sighs when she sees me playing with the forks and knives at a restaurant, which often involves balancing something on a water glass rim...

Heh. One random thought following another....

My dear nonagenerian mom does this trick sometimes at family dinners (usually after she's had more than her usual one glass of wine) which involves laying the handle of one spoon over the handle of another spoon, bopping the bowl part of the under spoon, to flip the over spoon into a water glass. (She couldn't get it to work last Thanksgiving, but a cousin tried it and did it.)

At a restaurant one time with Milady, I tried it and got it the first time. I left for the washroom, and I came back to broken glass and saturated tablecloth. Milady's attempt at the trick in my absence had been... less than successful.

I should write a book about it. (Trying to be on-topic.)