Discord: My wife and I want a nice meal together but we have two kids and none of our friends can look after and my wife's mom is busy so what do we do?
Mistress Marevelous: No offense, but don’t you have reality bending powers? Why don’t you just make a babyproof dimension or manifest a nanny or something?
Radiance: Maybe they’ve had bad experiences with past conjured childcare. There’s bound to be a lonely teenager somewhere available to babysit. Maybe your friends are busy, but one of them might have a referral for you. Maybe a niece or nephew or a sitter they’ve used in the past?
Oh! I don’t know if you have it, but if you’re in Maretropolis there’s this childcare agency that has an arrangement with a bunch of local restaurants. So if you call ahead you can request a specific sitter for the restaurant you want to eat at, but there’s a staffed children’s room at each of them. It’s supposed to be for things like if you have a lunch meeting or a job interview or a date, and there’s a fixed price for the room and the children’s food, so they can order whatever they want off the kid’s menu without you and it won’t cost you if they order like ten extra cookies and a chocolate shake for their friends.
Marevelous: Kind of sounds like someone just remembered a time they got ten extra cookies and a shake for a friend.
Radiance: They had so many good cookies. The babysitter referral thing is more likely to work out for them though. They don’t even have to ask for a babysitter, just someone who’s good with babies or might have a very young sibling. Chances are if they have a sibling they’re already stuck at home babysitting anyway, adding a couple of babies they get paid for can’t hurt. I wasn’t even a babysitter but my aunt mentioned I was good with babies to a sleep deprived mom, and I still get asked to watch fussy babies.
Marevelous: Fussy is kind of your specialty.
Radiance: HA! You would know, fussypants!
(P.S. A gift from Hum Drum and Zapp, it was to be your reward.)
