Balloon Boobs

I have some very religious cousins. So religious that they have strictly kosher diets. So religious that they don't use electricity or drive on the Sabbath. So religious that even the balloons I make for them have to be modestly dressed.

On a recent trip out to yeshiva-land, little Yochanan asked me to make a chusen and kallah (bride and groom) out of balloons. So I made what I always make when someone requests a bride and groom sculpture, never really paying attention to the fact that the bride's dress is sleeveless or, as in the case above, has a little balloon bosom showing.

So I didn't really notice this. But little Yochanan certainly did:

"The kallah's not sneeus [Yiddish expression for 'not modest']!"

Sometimes balloon customers are impossible to please.

Internet Fame

Seth's dad told me that Seth had been excited for weeks about Balloon Lady coming to his birthday party. When I arrived at the party and was introduced to the birthday boy, Seth smiled and said to me:

"I remember you! I remember you from the Internet!"

Apparently, Seth's dad had showed Seth my website and he was very excited about someone from the Internet coming to his party.