Alright so I was in Detroit (my home town) not too long back and ran into a friend Nick who's an artist as well and we decided to work a fair they have every year in muskegon called the summer celebration. We decided to stand side by side and do balloons in what we termed as a Race to 100, first person to reach 100 dollars making balloons wins. Anyway, nick realized quickly that by self inflating and not using a pump I was racing ahead. What's a balloon artist (and 10 year smoker) to do? He decides he's gonna self inflate the balloons as well. So I'm carrying on and out of the corner of my eye I see nick inflating a white 160, his face bright red and then purple and he's going, going, gone! Straight over backward to the grass, never tried to catch himself. He hadn't self inflate balloons in 5 years, and in the 24 degree heat had been drinking red bull and no water and passed out. What did I do? I grabbed him, drug him into the shade, made a penguin hat with the phrase, keep cool, on it and put it on him then left him with the paramedics and I went back to twisting. 30 minutes later he came back (after two IV fluid bags to combat his dehydration) and started using the pump again. I didn't have the heart to tell him in that thirty minutes I'd managed the 100 already. But I bought us lunch at Someplace Else Pizza just so he didn't feel too bad.
-T
-T