How does everyone cope when they come across overinflated balloons in public?
Not sure if it is just coincidental, or if the winter weather causes people to lose control of their exhalation into the balloons, but I've been at two places this weekend where massively overinflated balloons "featured" prominently.
The first was a local cafe which had been decorated with balloons on the walls and out the front, tied in bunches of 4. I never saw any inflating, although I noticed that every balloon was fully necked and absolutely straining. Looked like 10 inchers blown up to about 14, all shiny (for now) and beautifully glassy and transparent. Miraculously there were no pops during my time at the cafe.
The second location was at a shopping centre, where a dance group was doing a mini-concert. Each dancer did their routine on stage holding a balloon. Each and every balloon was also grossly overinflated, and these ones looked like the balloons in the video below. The necks were so big that the dancers held the balloons using the necks like a handle, instead of holding the knot. During the performance, three balloons exploded violently just from being held. They were very very loud and startled everyone.
I wonder why whoever blew up the balloons blew them so huge?
Not sure if it is just coincidental, or if the winter weather causes people to lose control of their exhalation into the balloons, but I've been at two places this weekend where massively overinflated balloons "featured" prominently.
The first was a local cafe which had been decorated with balloons on the walls and out the front, tied in bunches of 4. I never saw any inflating, although I noticed that every balloon was fully necked and absolutely straining. Looked like 10 inchers blown up to about 14, all shiny (for now) and beautifully glassy and transparent. Miraculously there were no pops during my time at the cafe.
The second location was at a shopping centre, where a dance group was doing a mini-concert. Each dancer did their routine on stage holding a balloon. Each and every balloon was also grossly overinflated, and these ones looked like the balloons in the video below. The necks were so big that the dancers held the balloons using the necks like a handle, instead of holding the knot. During the performance, three balloons exploded violently just from being held. They were very very loud and startled everyone.
I wonder why whoever blew up the balloons blew them so huge?
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