Re: Your accidental pops
I've had only a handful of pops. First one was when I was maybe 12-13. My brother had gone on a school trip and brought home a balloon on a stick. One night a few weeks later he still had the balloon in our room, and I had the house to myself for a few hours. Took the balloon in my bathroom, and untied it from the stick to reinflate it a bit and make it tighter. Because it was an older balloon, it was not as keen on the idea as I was! Fortunately as it was an older balloon, it was a pretty soft "wham" pop rather than a bang.
A few years later I was 18. House to myself for a weekend. Bought some helium tanks, bought some big balloons from a local balloon decorator store, and ordered some Tuftex 14" on the internet. Blew up about a dozen Tuftex with helium, and twice as many with air. Decided to move on to my bigger balloons, 16" Uniques with heart prints. Guessing they must have been old balloons, because the first one I tried popped before it was anywhere near capacity. Put me off Uniques for life (so far).
Couple years later I got the train to another town as I knew a Matalan store had a huge balloon selection. I bought a bunch of Anagram balloons from them. On the train back I couldn't wait and had to see what they looked like. Went to the toilet and blew up a big blue one. Figured it would be cool to leave the balloons for someone else to find, so tied it off and left it on the floor. Then blew up a red one, tied it, and as soon as it touched the floor BBBOOOOOOOMMM. In a really small toilet, it was ear ringing deafening. I quickly got out of there before the blue one popped too, and legged it down to a different carriage. In researching what happened, it seems citrus disinfectant and balloons = bad combo. Then when I got home I decided to blow up another, accidentally b2p'ed it. Having two pops in one day rattled me, and I didn’t touch another balloon for two years.
Most recently a couple years back, I discovered that the Poundland confetti balloons would get HUGE. Blew up a few over the space of a few weeks, then one day while inflating one with my inflator it popped. Tbh seeing it pop and the confetti going everywhere kind of excited me. Didn’t turn me in to a popper, and I'm still phobic, but it was definitely a silver lining to a pop
I've had only a handful of pops. First one was when I was maybe 12-13. My brother had gone on a school trip and brought home a balloon on a stick. One night a few weeks later he still had the balloon in our room, and I had the house to myself for a few hours. Took the balloon in my bathroom, and untied it from the stick to reinflate it a bit and make it tighter. Because it was an older balloon, it was not as keen on the idea as I was! Fortunately as it was an older balloon, it was a pretty soft "wham" pop rather than a bang.
A few years later I was 18. House to myself for a weekend. Bought some helium tanks, bought some big balloons from a local balloon decorator store, and ordered some Tuftex 14" on the internet. Blew up about a dozen Tuftex with helium, and twice as many with air. Decided to move on to my bigger balloons, 16" Uniques with heart prints. Guessing they must have been old balloons, because the first one I tried popped before it was anywhere near capacity. Put me off Uniques for life (so far).
Couple years later I got the train to another town as I knew a Matalan store had a huge balloon selection. I bought a bunch of Anagram balloons from them. On the train back I couldn't wait and had to see what they looked like. Went to the toilet and blew up a big blue one. Figured it would be cool to leave the balloons for someone else to find, so tied it off and left it on the floor. Then blew up a red one, tied it, and as soon as it touched the floor BBBOOOOOOOMMM. In a really small toilet, it was ear ringing deafening. I quickly got out of there before the blue one popped too, and legged it down to a different carriage. In researching what happened, it seems citrus disinfectant and balloons = bad combo. Then when I got home I decided to blow up another, accidentally b2p'ed it. Having two pops in one day rattled me, and I didn’t touch another balloon for two years.
Most recently a couple years back, I discovered that the Poundland confetti balloons would get HUGE. Blew up a few over the space of a few weeks, then one day while inflating one with my inflator it popped. Tbh seeing it pop and the confetti going everywhere kind of excited me. Didn’t turn me in to a popper, and I'm still phobic, but it was definitely a silver lining to a pop
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