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Dad Who Cold-Heartedly Popped 8-Year-Old's Balloons Has Karma to Deal With
Here's a secret:
Whenever I got a balloon as a kid (for some reason I feel like most of them came from the shoe store), I gave it a name and a backstory and, until the day it inevitably popped/fizzled, treated it like an imaginary friend of sorts.
I've never told anyone that story before because, quite frankly, I've always kind of wondered if that was a ... normal ... sort of game for a kid to play.
Normal as in, not the sort of game that would make people worry about you growing up to be a little bit ... off.
So you can imagine my relief when I heard about an 8-year-old girl playing the very same game -- with feeling, apparently. Because when the girl's dad made the tremendous mistake of trying to clean up the deflated remnants of his daughter's birthday party, well ... she left him a rather nasty note:
Would you like it if just because you were getting old you got poped.
Egads! I daresay I have no interest in getting "poped" just because I'm getting old! (Not that I'm getting old, just old-er.)
What sort of strange torture ... OH. Popped! She meant "popped." Her dad explained:
Today I armed my kids with unrolled paperclips and asked them to pop the two-week-old helium balloons that have been kicking around our house at ground level since my daughter's birthday. I was not aware that my 8 year old daughter had given the balloons personalities and was really not happy with my plans for them. She was so upset she couldn't talk, but marched into the room and gave me this note. Bad Dad!
The moral of the story, dear parents (apart from the thing about me not being as weird of a kid as I thought): You never really know what's going on your kid's head. In her world, maybe balloons have feelings or cracks in the sidewalk are really snakes or people can be "poped" if you wish it hard enough.
Having lived in a world like that once long ago, I know what I'm talking about.
Does your kid have a huge imagination? Do you ever have trouble keeping up with it?
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Todd Vrancic
Sounds normal to me, in that both my wife and I remember doing similar as we were growing up. I am sure my kids did so as well. My wife once got a balloon from the zoo and she decided it wanted to be free, so she set it free. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and who says balloons don't have feelings?
MomLily67
OH I would never pop a balloon without asking my DD first!! she loves balloons, and I love tha she loves them, we buy them in all shapes and colors.. I know they can be annoying when at ground level. She once keepts minnie mouses's shoes (both) from a piñata for 2 months or more, imagine, she hit the jackpot by rescuing both, and she would wear them too.
Our little one's imaginations are to be cherished, and I do have trouble keeping up with it sometimes.
SierraLynn
jessicasmom1
it's a shame this dad did this ...but things will work out it was a balloon
Melissa1508
My aunt used to make us watch, sobbing, while she threw our "hunted" Easter eggs into the air and smashed them with a baseball bat. haha The balloon thing is pretty minor compared to that, I think.
Todd Vrancic
@Melissa, what was wrong with your aunt? That's just cruel.
MomaLlama
A few years ago, my childhood best-friend and I were watching a video of her 6th birthday party. Her mom is one of the sweetest people, very soft spoken, incredibly patient, bakes cookies and needlepoints type of woman. Well in the video my friend is opening her presents and all the kids are crowding around and it's loud and noisy and a little chaotic and my friends 2-3 year old brother is standing there with a balloon saying repeatedly, "look mommy a balloon, look mommy a balloon" while pushing this balloon in his mom's face. Very calmly, her mom looks up and pops his balloon with an ink pen and goes right back to dealing with the other kids. It was hilarious to watch, and her brothers face was heartbreaking. I guess everyone has their breaking point. (P.S. that boy grew up to be okay emotionally and suffered no lasting trauma)
Disney17
Brandy Wile
Seriously?? He is a bad dad for popping balloons from a party weeks prior to it? It isn't heartless as he didn't even know, also what kind of kids give balloons personalities and names? Never heard of this and certainly didn't do it myself. There is nothing wrong with what he did.
Maevelyn
MamaLlama, that is the best video ever. My kids would demand your friend submit it to AFV and win $10,000 (apparently, if you submit is you're bound to win, never mind all the OTHER videos)