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Originally Posted by Fitzwilly
When you schedule a party do you ask what time the party starts and then plan to arive right then? I explain that it is best if the clown arrives about 30 minutes to an hour AFTER the party starts. This gives everyone a chance to arrive without missing the show.
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I've experienced the opposite end of this challenge, also. My standard question is, "What time would you like me to arrive?" with the understanding that I'll be there for an hour (or slightly longer, within reason, to finish up) from the time of arrival. The difficulty is just this, though, timing my appearance within the larger context of the party. It can happen, for instance, that the the person requests my presence later on in the planned timeframe than they perhaps ought to have, in which case I am asked to hurry things along so that everything remaining can fit in before the appointed time of departure for the party attendees. The concept of arriving 30 minutes to an hour after the start time announced on invitations seems like a very reasonable recommendation to give everyone adequate time to arrive, get settled, do whatever else might be planned, and still make the involvement of a clown something special which is given its proper place within the larger context of the event.