A question for the fen.

[kengr]

You are wandering through the dealer room at a medium to large convention (Westercon, Baycon, that sort of thing).

There's a table with a couple of people wearing some pretty good spacesuit outfits, complete with mirrored helmets. Even have "translators" with an appropriately "computer" voice.

They're selling toy radio controlled flying saucers. They zip around nicely, making a humming noise much like the cars in the Jetsons.

They want $50 for them.

What do you do?

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[cleverthylacine]

1) Have I got $50?

2) Is it my food money?

3) What is the clothing selection like?

4) Any weird Slytherin items to be found?

5) Do they look like the cat could get hurt if she actually succeeded in catching one?

[kengr]

I'll skip questions 1 thru 4 as they are SEP (Somebody Else's Problem :-)

They're an oblate spheroid shape (think, ellipse spun about the short axis). Outer covering feels a bit spongy/padded (sort of like wrestling mats. Doesn't feel like claws would be able to dig in though.

About a foot across and 2-3 inches thick. Weighs a few pounds.

Will that hurt the cat? Probably not. But then again, cats excel at finding ways to get thenselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. :-)

[cleverthylacine]

Questions 1-4 may well be SEP, but if you're asking me what I would do, then they're important. I won't spend money I don't have or need to eat on, and I won't spend money on interesting intriguing non-fandom specific toys if there're items I need to have to complete my gear.

The cat question has a satisfactory answer though. Doesn't sound like she could get in there and ingest the contents. (My cat, whom you may see on hp_feline is not as active as she once was. But when she was a kit...)

I think I would want to buy one, and I might buy one, but not if there were something that I wanted more, because I don't often find myself in places where I could really play with such a toy--I have a radio-controlled dancing Sailormoon doll that would see a lot more action if my floors were clear, and while that's not a problem with a flying thing, my rooms aren't that large individually and I have breakable objects on some of the shelves.