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“Bill, the piñata. That’s where we start.” “Molly, it’s a paper mule. You want to whack it?” “No, you glorious idiot, I want to *be* it. We hollow out ‘Dazzle the Donkey,’ I climb inside, you haul me in as party entertainment.” “You, a forty-two-year-old woman, stuffed inside a donkey, at my niece’s seventh birthday?” “It’s the perfect Trojan horse, Bill. I’m surrounded by the target presents. I grab, I stuff them inside the hollow donkey with me, you swing me out.” “And the twenty tiny guests with sticky, watchful fingers?” “Blind them with science. Or, failing that, a cheap bubble machine on a fifteen-minute timer. It’s ‘Pop Palooza.’ Chaos. Zero visibility.” “They’ll still hear you. My sister’s kid, Lulu, she can hear a cookie packet rustle from three gardens away.” “Sound countermeasure: I’ll moo.” “Donkeys bray, Molly. They don’t moo. It’s a foundational difference.” “Even better. The sheer, unsettling wrongness of it will paralyse them in existential confusion. You’ll hoist the rope, the donkey ascends, stuffed with unicorn slime kits. We’re legends.” “You want me to hoist a live weight of one-fifty pounds of awkwardly packaged thief, plus plunder, on a single rope tied to a swing set?” “It’s the children’s own optimism holding us up, Bill. Don’t overthink the physics.” “The pin will tear. The donkey splits. You plummet onto the cake.” “Aim me for the bouncy castle.” “There is no bouncy castle. It’s a petting zoo.” “A petting… why didn’t you lead with the goats, Bill? This changes the entire acoustic landscape. Do goats alert the authorities?” “They just… judge. Silently. With those freaky, slotted pupils.” “Fine. We adjust. I’ll wear a tiny goat costume under the donkey costume. Classic shell game. They unzip a donkey, find a goat, minds melt, we waddle away with the Lego. Final question: can you get me a glue gun and three pounds of sparkly felt in the next twenty minutes?”