The first Friday every month we went out to a local nightclub. Often they had a DJ or live band, tonight for a change the cabaret was a hypnotist. My wife Sue and I were quite merry having had perhaps one to many drinks. Sitting at the bar we started to heckle the hypnotist as he started his act. In our inebriated state we were trying to outdo each other in what we called out. Fake, fix and load of rubbish were some of the milder heckling. Some of the audience were starting to get fed up with us when the hypnotist said to us: put our money where our mouth is. Come up on stage, if I canโt put you under I will pay for you to both have a slap up meal. This we could not resist and in a blink of an eye we joined his other volunteers on stage.
He started with my wife talking quietly in a soothing tone getting her to watch a swinging pendant. In no time she seemed to be relaxed and fast asleep. He then spent a couple of minutes whispering something into her ear before moving on to me. Right I thought, you have met your match, no way will I fall under his spell. The next thing I knew was the hypnotist helping me to stand up with the audience clapping. Grinning I said I told you could not work your tricks on me. Winking to the audience he replied I guess not, as you have been such good sports as promised dinner is on me. As Sue and I walked to the restaurant why were so many people seem to be giggling as we passed.
We enjoyed an excellent meal and celebrated our good fortune with a bottle of wine. We discussed what had happened and the only puzzling thing was we could not account for the 30 minutes we were on stage. I asked Sue what he had whispered into her ear but she could not recall anything he had said.