So I was in West London and visited Westfield shopping centre. For those that have not been it's absolutley huge, like a small village.
It's on 5 floors, there was a stall/unit where a man and lady dressed up as clowns blowing up blue balloons (Q16) with helium or a cheaper air/helium mix and using modeling balloons for the legs. They were very busy, selling them for £4 a balloon. Tying a long ribbon onto the balloon with a plastic ring for the lucky recipitant to hold onto whilst moving around the shopping centre. They were doing well, they had 20 or so blown up and the queue was big enough to lead me to believe it was very lucrative for them.
I was slightly worried about my staple escapade as I thought that a staple may ricochet off of an exploded balloon and blind someone. I bought a can of orange air freshner made by Fabreeze and got ready by putting the can down my sleeve so I just had the trigger and spray head in my hand and as I walked behind the stall that was pretty much central to the centre of the shopping centre I gave it quick blast pointing upwards so the spray would fall down into the balloons.
This was not an instant burst but a good few seconds, like 20 seconds later. Time for the spray to fall onto the balloons and time for the orange content to eat it's way through the latex. It was less than spectacular, 5 popped, no more as I counted them as I was still in close proximity to the stall. You could hear them go off, BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!. I guess the stall holders just thought one or two popped and the flying shards popped the rest.
Anyway, just a bit of fun on a cold and rainy Wednesday.
It's on 5 floors, there was a stall/unit where a man and lady dressed up as clowns blowing up blue balloons (Q16) with helium or a cheaper air/helium mix and using modeling balloons for the legs. They were very busy, selling them for £4 a balloon. Tying a long ribbon onto the balloon with a plastic ring for the lucky recipitant to hold onto whilst moving around the shopping centre. They were doing well, they had 20 or so blown up and the queue was big enough to lead me to believe it was very lucrative for them.
I was slightly worried about my staple escapade as I thought that a staple may ricochet off of an exploded balloon and blind someone. I bought a can of orange air freshner made by Fabreeze and got ready by putting the can down my sleeve so I just had the trigger and spray head in my hand and as I walked behind the stall that was pretty much central to the centre of the shopping centre I gave it quick blast pointing upwards so the spray would fall down into the balloons.
This was not an instant burst but a good few seconds, like 20 seconds later. Time for the spray to fall onto the balloons and time for the orange content to eat it's way through the latex. It was less than spectacular, 5 popped, no more as I counted them as I was still in close proximity to the stall. You could hear them go off, BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!. I guess the stall holders just thought one or two popped and the flying shards popped the rest.
Anyway, just a bit of fun on a cold and rainy Wednesday.
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