A little originality, please!

Now, here's a thing that won't stop happening, that may seem benign, but when you hear it as many times a day as I do, it can soon become quite irritating.

Parents, I don't know if when you were young, clowns were only able to do balloon dogs, but I'm far from a master of the art of balloon sculpting and I can do most animals, flowers, swords, motorcycles, guns, etc.

Why, oh why, won't you open up to other things than the dog? I'm tired of the parents who bend down beside there kids who is too shy or too young to talk and say: "(to the child:)do you want a nice balloon dog? hm? do you want a dog? a dog? hmm? (to the clown:) I think he/she would like a dog!(to the child:) wouldn't you? a nice balloon dog? the clown will make you a dog!(to the clown:) make him a dog!"

I swear to god this happens with more than 50% of the families who come see me. Sometimes, they'll include a cat as a bonus choice, if I'm lucky. There will sometimes be a smart ass dad who think he's funny and will ask me a bike, but DAMN do I love those dads. There point isn't to make me happy, nor to give me a challenge, but to make a little fun of me, and strangely enough, every dad who does this seems to think he's the first. But, at least, I can make one, have fun doing it, it will make a change from these hundreds of dogs, and it'll make the smart-assed dad shut up.

Also, children, it's not because the kid in front of you had a mouse or a flower that you must ABSOLUTELY have a fuckin' mouse or flower. Be original, please!