- Title
- Static Waving Only
- Genre
- Comedy
- Premise
- A wildlife charity hires a temporary mascot performer for an otter open day, then tells him the insurer only permits arm movements below shoulder height.
- Specific job/task
- He has to demonstrate safe riverbank behaviour to families while wearing a damp otter costume with one flat foot.
- Precise setting detail
- The talk takes place beside a portable handwashing station in the veterinary car park, with laminated otter facts taped to traffic cones.
- Mundane system complication
- The charity’s insurance schedule says the mascot may wave, point and stand still, but cannot bend, run or pick anything up.
- Decision that turns the story
- When a child drops the demonstration life ring into a drain, he chooses to break the mascot rules rather than let the charity cancel the safety talk.