At a restaurant, I (Tony the Balloon Guy) already made a balloon hat for a little girl, and I’m starting to make one for her teenage cousin.
Out of nowhere, while the cousin is talking to the girl’s mom, the girl says, “She doesn’t like hot dogs.”
I ask the teen, “You don’t like hot dogs?!?”
The teen turns to me, stunned. “How did you know that?”
Immediately, I hold up the balloon, which I have already wrapped around her head to measure, so the hat will fit. “I can tell by the size of your head.”
“No way!”
“It’s true. I’ve been doing this for years, and I’ve learned a few things about people along the way. And I can tell by the size and shape of your head that you don’t like hot dogs.”
“Are you SERIOUS???”
The little girl’s mom, out of the teen’s sight, is bent over laughing silently.
“Yup,” I insist.
“Oh my gosh! That is amazing! I HAVE to learn balloons now. Look what it lets you do!!!”
The little girl says, “I TOLD him you don’t like hot dogs!”
Total embarrassment.
The kicker: when I measured the teen’s head, I remarked that she must be a genius, because her head was so big. When the family scoffed that it wasn’t brains in that big head, I insisted that it was. After the Hot Dog Incident, the little girl’s dad asks me, “So, what do you think is in there NOW?”
Earlier in the evening, at the same restaurant, a mom asked her son, “Anthony, are you done eating?” He said that he was, and he watched me make him a balloon animal.
A moment later, I told him, “You know, my name is ‘Anthony,’ too.”
Shocked, he asked, “How did you know my name is ‘Anthony???’”
“Because we have the same name. As you get older, you’ll realize that you can always spot people who have the same name as you…”
Have a fun day!
