Meeting the Jokers

Part 6

"So, the producer just told me-" Joe began.

"Told us," Sal chimed in.

"That you will be our special guest this week. If you want, that is."

I was gobsmacked. "Wow," I said, startled.

"Is that good? Or bad?" Sal asked.

I thought for a second. "Great. Obviously." I had never heard of these men 5 hours ago but now I was on TV with them.

I guess that's fine though.

"But you do realise, you lost." Sal points out.

"Right..."

"So the loser had to perform the punishment that we give to you."

"Oh," I say, "I can do that."

The producer, Casey, came over to us. "are you in?"

"I'm in."

"Great. This will be great." He says, smiling at me and the guys.

"So, we had a note," Sal pulled out of his pocket, "if we ever had a guest star... this is what we'd do."

"Right," I say.

"We had this great public punishment we wanted to do..." Q said, "but then, we weren't too sure."

"Well I'm ready," I proclaimed.

"Ok, get the cameras up," Joe ordered.

"We're here for Olivia's punishment!" Murr announced to the cameras.

The script was in clear bold letters beside the camera, I had a line soon. My heart was pounding. It was nerve wracking talking directly into a camera. Directly to my family.

"So... what is it?" I asked nervously.

"Well, my friend," Q said, "were going east on you. We're just taking you to a kids play area. You're gonna piss off the children inside. Easy."

Didn't sound too hard.

The building was huge, with 5 floors of slides.

"So what should I do?"

Joe gave me his earpiece and they sent me in. "Aren't I too old for this place?" I yelled.

They all shook their heads in unison, scrunching up their eyebrows and mouth.

Here goes nothing, I thought to myself.

I began with a slide. A short tunnel to the floor.

There was a huge line to go on it, at least 15 kids.

"Just... just push past them," Murr yelled into the mic.

"Out of my way!" I yelled at them. Pushing through kids half my side.

"You can't do that!" "Go to the back!" Were aimed at me. But I ignored them.

"When you get into the slide," Sal said, "don't actually slide. Get stuck inside."

"Oh god guys," I announced. "I'm stuck."

The children huffed. A large boy pushed past and kicked my back. "Get out!" He yelled.

The jokers were laughing. But this certainly wasn't funny.

"Hey!" I yelled, trying to keep myself in place, "just let everyone through."

"Fine," I sighed.

"Next," Joe said, "the ball pit. Just cover yourself up in the balls."

I did so. "Now scare kids," Q said.

I did so. I didn't realise how bad I could feel from scaring kids.

"Well that's about it," Sal said after multiple more orders. Crashing kids indoor basketball games and scaring them inside the dark corridor.

"You did well," Sal gave me a high five. "We should do this more often."