A magician was
working on a
cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience
would be
different each
week, so the magician allowed himself 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”
“Look, he is hiding
the
flowers under the table” “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?”