One of the mother's who agreed to host also sells Mary Kay products, so she's done lots of these types of parties and will hopefully be successful in helping me sell camp. In addition to a camp party, she is also hosting a Mary Kay party that day, which will hopefully increase the number of attendees. She told me about it so I could stay after my part was done and I was planning on it, until I got the invitation today.
It's not just a Mary Kay party, it is also a Pure Romance party. If you have not heard the million radio ads for Pure Romance, it is just like a Tupperware or make up party, but for sex toys! I'm a bit uptight to begin with and I think if I ever attended one of these I'd have to spend the evening actively pulling my jaw off the floor in between gasping at nearly everything that was brought out.
With friend, it would be awkward. But with a camper's mother (and a room of potential camper mothers), the very thought gives me the chills. I've not been to one of these parties, but I imagine it is like a Tuppeware party where the host takes out a product, we all pass it around, oohing and ahhing. I'm picturing a giant penis shaped toy and trying to think of what kind of reaction I would have when it was passed to me. Polite head nodding? Pinch it between two fingers and avoid looking directly at it? Excuse myself to go to the bathroom as soon as it is brought out of the bag? Feign wild enthusiasm and excitement? Perhaps not even the way these parties work, but the though of it makes me want to crawl under a rock and die.
So now I'm thinking up excuses for how to get out of there as soon as my presentation is done. I'll let you know how it goes...
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