Aquarianne
07-14-2014, 03:24 AM
Everyone, I gots a problem with entering and leaving parties!! (Raina, maybe you could give some input here? I got (and devoured!) your book in the mail yesterday and this was one question that I still had after, and one that my boss had too.)
We do a lot of birthday parties and expect to do many of them in backyard pools for clients...much of our business comes from the McMansion set, who may have either above-ground or in-ground pools. What would be the best way to enter the party as a mermaid, if you don't have a mertender? My boss is a woman only a few inches taller than me and I don't think she could possibly lift me and carry me to and from the pool and the car. Someone mentioned getting and decorating a little Radio Flyer-style wagon, which might be cool if we can do it up in a big clamshell design, but does anyone have other ideas? Private homes are the majority of our business, although possibly those same folks would rent the indoor pool at their country clubs in the winter. I'd prefer public pool work, cuz a lifeguard is involved and we don't have to hammer safety into the parents' brains QUITE so hard (still gotta be firm about it), but entrances could still be tricky. I guess for public pools like that, we'd be in the water when the kids arrive, and stay until they leave.
My boss is VERY big on maintaing the realism, so we're not allowed to "transform" into humans during or after a party just so we can get in the car and drive away. If we're mermaids, we're mermaids until we're out of sight. (We don't worry about bumping into these kids at the store later and ruining it, because many of our jobs are widespread and few are in the same town we live in).
Any suggestions or ideas would REALLY be appreciated! :3 If it involves building stuff, I can usually accommodate that! I have a small shop and tools at my house and can build most anything.
We do a lot of birthday parties and expect to do many of them in backyard pools for clients...much of our business comes from the McMansion set, who may have either above-ground or in-ground pools. What would be the best way to enter the party as a mermaid, if you don't have a mertender? My boss is a woman only a few inches taller than me and I don't think she could possibly lift me and carry me to and from the pool and the car. Someone mentioned getting and decorating a little Radio Flyer-style wagon, which might be cool if we can do it up in a big clamshell design, but does anyone have other ideas? Private homes are the majority of our business, although possibly those same folks would rent the indoor pool at their country clubs in the winter. I'd prefer public pool work, cuz a lifeguard is involved and we don't have to hammer safety into the parents' brains QUITE so hard (still gotta be firm about it), but entrances could still be tricky. I guess for public pools like that, we'd be in the water when the kids arrive, and stay until they leave.
My boss is VERY big on maintaing the realism, so we're not allowed to "transform" into humans during or after a party just so we can get in the car and drive away. If we're mermaids, we're mermaids until we're out of sight. (We don't worry about bumping into these kids at the store later and ruining it, because many of our jobs are widespread and few are in the same town we live in).
Any suggestions or ideas would REALLY be appreciated! :3 If it involves building stuff, I can usually accommodate that! I have a small shop and tools at my house and can build most anything.