At Denny’s one recent night, I (Tony the Balloon Guy) took it upon myself to make a SCUBA diver and take it over to a young lady who was eating with her baby son, her husband, and her father-in-law. It was a black figure with big yellow flippers and a yellow tank, and clear bubbles coming out of the tank. The mask and eyes were drawn on with a white paint marker. Never made anything like it before. They were crazy over it. The father-in-law approached me a little while later and looked at me, puzzled.
“Do you know who my son IS?” he asked.
Turned out, the woman’s husband is an elite Navy diver – as his father put it, “One of the President’s Men.”
The next week, at the same restaurant, I made an elephant, balancing on a ball, and gave it to a lady. She loved it. Just before she left the restaurant, she approached me, and gave me that puzzled look I’d seen on the diver’s dad.
“Do you know who I AM?”
Turned out, she used to work for Ringling Brothers. And her job had been to buy the food for the elephants.
Tony, Psychic Balloon Guy.
Have a fun day!
