Daniel looked around the boardroom. His introduction hadn't been a huge success, there were no smiles, no reaction at all.

He could feel himself getting hotter as his forehead dampened with sweat. It was time to unveil his creation.

"So, without further ado, I have made a quick concept drawing of my... our... new attraction. I present to you, Bouncy World!"

Daniel clicked over to the next slide. His artwork had been rushed and he was never the most artistic of people with a pen and paper, let alone Microsoft Paint, though he had hoped it would be enough.

The board stared. Nobody made a sound, nobody made any notes. Eyes widened as they studied the slide before them.

"Well?" Daniel tried to cut the tension, "What do you think?"

Again, there was no response. Eventually, one of the older men piped up.

"Why are the children taller than the tress?"

"I'm sorry, I don't think I understand..." Daniel replied, perplexed. The old man pointed to the slide with his pen.

"In your drawing. The children are taller than the trees. Why is that?"

"It's just a drawing, I'm really not the best at..."

"Are we supposed to use miniature trees for this Bouncy World?"

"Just ignore the trees, I haven't done this to scale, it's just to give a rough idea of how it would look."

The old man threw his pen down onto his desk, looking around at his colleagues. "Well, I just can't make heads or tails of this thing."

Daniel opened his mouth to object, when a woman sat directly in front of him spoke.

"Why are there no girls in this drawing? Is this ride for boys only?"

"Boys are easier to draw than girls, as I've already said, I'm not the best at using Microsoft Paint. Obviously girls would be allowed to use Bouncy World."

"Well then," A middle-aged woman with a sharp face to Daniel's right hand side interjected, "We'd need to have a strict sports-bra policy for this. I'm not having any perverts watching girls bounce up and down, I've seen what teenagers are wearing nowadays. It's sick."

"Come on, Janet," A large man said, grinning, "Stop ruining it for us men!"

Daniel rubbed his eyes. The reaction hadn't been quite what he had expected.

"Okay, it's not drawn to scale and girls are allowed. Does anybody else have any questions about Bouncy World?"

The man at the head of the table spoke up. "Look, er, Daniel, was it? I get it, I really do, my kids love trampolining and, if there's any way to incorporate something like that into our theme park, I'd jump at the chance..."

"Ba dum tshh!" The large man looked around, smiling as he mimicked the drums with his hands. Nobody reacted.

"I just don't understand how this would logistically work."

"If I'm being honest, sir, I'm not a scientist. I don't know how to make the floor bouncy, I just know that this is a good idea if it was possible. Think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where everything is edible, only in Bouncy World everything is, well, bouncy." Daniel said, looking confidently at the man at the head of the table. A slight nod of acknowledgement from the man was enough for Daniel to see that he had finally got his point across.

There was a few moments of silence, when the old man raised his hand again.

"Why can't we just have normal sized trees?"