The Birthday Balloon

So I'm about a week late on this one, but nonetheless, my birthday was last week (thank you, thank you..) and in case you aren't already aware, our backyard is not so much a yard as a forest. Anyway, during the week leading up to my birthday, a stray mylar balloon with "Happy Birthday" printed on it came from nowhere and floated into our yard and got itself stuck in one of the trees. It's still there now, though now it's all deflated, out of air and sadly hanging from one of the branches in a place we can't get to. This is the first thing to stray itself into our yard other then some animal, and for some reason I found it amusing that a birthday balloon happened to find it's way into our yard on my birthday. It's as if it knew! Ok, so maybe only interesting to me, and sure, there's probably some kid out there somewhere having a sad birthday because they lost their balloon. But then again, maybe the child is a little brat who doesn't deserve a balloon on their birthday.. ..yeah... ..maybe they pick on their siblings and the kids at school.., ..stealing their lunch money and calling everyone names.. yeah, that's probably it... this kid doesn't deserve to have a happy birthday balloon! He's a little turd!.

(Well, at least that's the story I'm going with.)