A magician was working on a cruise ship in the
Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the
magician was allowed to do the same tricks over and over again.
There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each
week and began to understand how the magician did every
trick.
Once he understood he started shouting in the middle of the show:
"Look, it's not the same hat" or "Look, he is hiding the flowers
under the table" and "Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of
Spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything; it was, after
all, the captain's parrot. One day the ship had an accident and
sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle
of the ocean with the parrot, of course. They stared at each other
with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for a day and
another, and another.
After a week the parrot said: "OK, I give up. Where's the
boat?"
