Celebrate your birthdays!

The magician was late. We only waited a few minutes, but I still felt a little uneasy. It was spring a few years ago, and this time, I feared, I had perhaps gotten a little too excited about my birthday. Even when the magician had introduced himself on the phone with his stage name "Rainer Zufall" and said that he liked to "make a joke" during his living room shows, I had doubted his seriousness as a magician. Now I looked at my friends, who were full of anticipation next to me.