Tough Gig

If it could be made harder, it was!
It was one of those nights alright!
I was booked to do a military Valentines ball recently and It turned out to be a catalogue of problems.
It started with the venue being quite difficult to find, then there was no room to set my own P.A. up so I had to share the discos system, this was through a sound limiter system on the stage and if you got much louder than talking it all cut out and everything had to be re set.
My allocated time slot was after the meal and the raffle, at the end of the raffle instead of announcing me they forgot and said now it is disco time, so most people left for a cigarette break so I had to try and start my show with only about 30 or so people in the room and no volume to try and get them back!
Against all odds I managed to get some volunteers, but, again, with no volume and people now coming back in and increasing room volume, hypnotising them was difficult. This was further hampered by their friends shouting in their faces, throwing things at them, taking flash photos from almost up their noses and finally kicking and poking them. However, despite this I did manage to hypnotise three of them and get a nice little show going, even though by now someone had decided it would all look better with the main hall lights turned off!
At the end people were saying how much they had enjoyed my show ( I am pleased that they did, because I did not like doing that one).