Parent 2: I thought you were going to take them to McDonalds?
P1: Not after last year I'm not. We still can’t walk past the place.
P2: How about a magician?
P1: And what is it about the last one letting that pigeon shit all over the living room you don’t remember?
P2: Oh, that’s right…and the kids didn’t respond that well did they?
P1: No, they did not. Who knew pigeons had so much stuff inside them?
P2: Ok then, how about a human statue? A human statue couldn’t cause much trouble.
P1: Let me think about that for a minute.
P2: No seriously, we could have a living cowboy statue just standing in the corner for the whole party. The kids could make faces at him and poke him and stuff.
P1: I’m not sure a cowboy would be so interesting. How about a James Bond-type woman painted gold?
P2: I was thinking more like a centurion or a character from Narnia or a mermaid. Even a Devil might be fun.
P1: Why not ask for a tree statue or a hobbit statue. Besides, it's all academic. I'm not sure you can even hire human statues.
But indeed you can.
