Water Balloons

Happy Birthday Paul!  Steve was in town and offered to babysit so Paul and I could go out for his birthday.  (Thanks Steve!  That was very brave of you.  Hope it didn’t scar you for life!)

Water balloons are normally a great addition to any birthday celebration.  They are fun to play games with and occasionally even throw back and forth at each other.  And it is even sometimes funny to launch one at an unsuspecting individual.

But in certain circumstances, a water balloon can become a weapon and an unsuspecting individual can become The Victim. And that is exactly what happened to me.

Paul and I were standing outside the entrance to Best Buy talking to Kelly Panter and her boyfriend Sam.  A car pulled up in front of the store a few feet away from us and let out a passenger.  Then the car started to pull away from the store.  Another car was directly behind them.  As the second car passed us, the passenger guy launched a full water balloon out the window directly at me.

And it hit me square in the face.

It took me completely by surprise.  I recoiled immediately from the impact.  It was so shocking.  It took me a minute to comprehend what happened.    I had been standing in the middle of Paul and Kelly.  I was soaking wet and Paul was wet and Kelly was splashed too.  They both checked on me and Sam took off.  He wanted to find the car.  Paul wanted to go too.  I did NOT want either one of them to go.  If that car would do this to a group of people in front of a public place with lots of other people near by, what else might they do?

And I was ok.  My face stung from the impact and the inside of my lip was cut a little bit.  But I was very happy that it was just water.  It could have been so much worse.

Sam wasn’t able to find the car because they had taken off.  I am totally ok with that.

I guess the people somehow knew that it was Paul’s birthday and wanted to join in the celebration.

This would be one of those occasions where the balloon was definitely a weapon.  And I was the poor little victim!

 

 

Paul snapped a picture once we got in the car with his phone.  The flash was harsh and its hard to see but the balloon hit me on the right side of my face and lip.