Popping Straws

Bar Louie offered a second opportunity (the first being choking on an entire stalk of broccoli): teaching the boy bar tricks. You can never be too young to start learning bar tricks. They are very useful for either impressing you friends or impressing the ladies. Ladies love seeing you pick two quarters off the lip of a pint glass.

We started with a basic one, making a drinking straw pop. Grab it at both ends and bicycle the ends forcing the air into the middle of the straw. A friend then thwaps the straw which makes a big popping noise as the straw bursts. It's almost as much fun as spinning until you're dizzy.



The website showing how to pop a straw says that you need two things: a straw and a friend. Finn only had parents. no one was there to flick the pressurized straw. He didn't seem to mind.

Next week's trick: Butt in your face.