I'm bloody great at faking it, I made a shitload of money doing it too.
I once had a bit of a scam going with a similar minded accomplice. We would look in the upper class newspapers for live in nannies at wealthy London homes and I would go in and pose as the greatest nanny ever. I did this by getting my accomplice to look through the rubbish left by our target house (So I knew a bit about them beforehand) and use it to my advantage.

Even though I had a decent bit of background info on the family the trick to getting the job was to get the kids interested in keeping me as a nanny which I managed to do thanks to a combination of trickery and mind games. I started this by making sure the kids were looking out the window then arriving at the family home via invisible wire (To them it looked like I was flying to the doorstep- the little buggers love a bit of magic). The truth was that my accomplice was a bit of an odd job man so all these props were 'borrowed' from the local theatre (He would also use the wind machine on other potential applicants if it was available).

After passing the typical Q & A you get from parents I would then take the kids out for (What they would later call) a magical day. All I really did was feed them a bunch of hallucinogenics and left them under a pile of coats in the corner of a pub while I got totally pissed with my American mate with a crap cockney accent (The accomplice I have been talking about, he would also help me get the kids to believe anything). After a few days of getting the family to trust me I would then tell them that the wind had changed and I have to be off. What they didn't know was I would be taking half of the valuables from the house too (you try searching my handbag, it can hold a lot of stuff and unless you know what you want you haven't got a chance in hell of finding anything).

Practically perfect in every way, my arse!
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 10:02, 3 replies)

Gor Blimey!
Mayry Porppins!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 10:30, closed)

Nice!
Just a spoonful of clickiness helps the left mouse button go down...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 10:37, closed)

A live in tranny nanny with a bucket fanny..
was how the family described you when I visited their empty house the other day.
(TheRiddler Hmmmmm... I concur., Mon 14 Jul 2008, 15:01, closed)