Re: I want to not be scared
Wearing headphones with loud music helps.
A few drinks seems to lower the stress level.
I also found a way to minimize direct contact with popping, but still get enormous balloons.
You need,
A house (preferably at least 2 stories and basement).
A pump.
One way valves that fit your pump and the sizes of balloons used (try plumbing supplies, you can make one easily. Have also used pop bottles).
A long extension cord ( or two)
Run the extension cord from the basement bathroom to a room upstairs, where inflation is to take place. Hookup the balloon to the valve, valve to pump, pump to extension cord, then switch on the pump.
If you plugged the cord in downstairs, the balloon will begin to inflate, head to the basement. If not, head downstairs and plug it in.
Now you are in the basement, with a balloon inflating two floors above you. Depending on the size of balloon and your pump, take a guess as to when it will be getting close to full, unplug the cord.
Pump stops, valve stops air escaping, balloon stays full.
Back upstairs, see how things are progressing. Then back downstairs and plug back in....for how much longer?
Repeat the process a few times (really good leg exercise).
When things start getting tight, give that balloon a rest, start on a new one (with its own valve).
When the room starts getting full, back to balloon #1, a bit more air....and a bit more. Then to #2 and so on.
At some point, something will give, loudly. With any luck you will be no where near it. I find that most overinflated balloons give out during addition of air or just following this. If you are at the other end of the house you might hear a bit of a thud, if you have headphones on you might be totally unaware of poppage.
Though of course, there are those occasions when you walk into a room and barely have time to register the enormous, light bulb 36 inch longneck, now seven feet end to end, prior to the gigantic KAAABAAAMMM! Which covers the room in confetti.
Still, totally worth a moment of terror, even for the phobic
Wearing headphones with loud music helps.
A few drinks seems to lower the stress level.
I also found a way to minimize direct contact with popping, but still get enormous balloons.
You need,
A house (preferably at least 2 stories and basement).
A pump.
One way valves that fit your pump and the sizes of balloons used (try plumbing supplies, you can make one easily. Have also used pop bottles).
A long extension cord ( or two)
Run the extension cord from the basement bathroom to a room upstairs, where inflation is to take place. Hookup the balloon to the valve, valve to pump, pump to extension cord, then switch on the pump.
If you plugged the cord in downstairs, the balloon will begin to inflate, head to the basement. If not, head downstairs and plug it in.
Now you are in the basement, with a balloon inflating two floors above you. Depending on the size of balloon and your pump, take a guess as to when it will be getting close to full, unplug the cord.
Pump stops, valve stops air escaping, balloon stays full.
Back upstairs, see how things are progressing. Then back downstairs and plug back in....for how much longer?
Repeat the process a few times (really good leg exercise).
When things start getting tight, give that balloon a rest, start on a new one (with its own valve).
When the room starts getting full, back to balloon #1, a bit more air....and a bit more. Then to #2 and so on.
At some point, something will give, loudly. With any luck you will be no where near it. I find that most overinflated balloons give out during addition of air or just following this. If you are at the other end of the house you might hear a bit of a thud, if you have headphones on you might be totally unaware of poppage.
Though of course, there are those occasions when you walk into a room and barely have time to register the enormous, light bulb 36 inch longneck, now seven feet end to end, prior to the gigantic KAAABAAAMMM! Which covers the room in confetti.
Still, totally worth a moment of terror, even for the phobic
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