Stupid things to do with balloons
Jul 31st, 2008 by handolio
I don’t know. In my day there were only two stupid things to do with a balloon: Let go of an inflated one at a family party so it blew a salivatory* raspberry, or untie a helium one and pretend to be a chipmonk.
It turns out there are at least two more stupid things to do with a balloon that I hadn’t previously catalogued. The first is tying a multitude of helium-filled ones to yourself and going for an ultimately fatal jaunt to 20,000 feet.
And then there’s the fourth stupid thing to do with a balloon, which I would apparently have encountered earlier had I been to a festival lately. It seems that yoot use balloons to concentrate and inhale nitrous oxide for recreational effect.
It’s debatable whether this is strictly stupid - I haven’t tried it - but I’m going to call it stupid for one simple reason: I’ve never felt older than when I realised that said yoot weren’t, in fact, trying to be chipmonks.
Learning: it’s not like it was in my day.
*The jury’s out on whether this is a real word. I don’t care.
