Chapter 7: Down the Hall
Jeff was staring down behind the front desk of the Balloonville B&B at the pile of balloons that Janice had blown up, tied, and dropped, when he looked up and saw her disappearing into a door behind the desk. She turned and said, "Come on, do you want to see what happens to the balloons from the non-popping guests or not?" Jeff hurried to follow her through the door. He was curious to see what happened to all the balloons from the non-popping side of the hotel, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he would somehow get waylaid (if not just laid) on the way. Such things seemed to happen quite often in Balloonville.
"We have to be really careful with the balloons for non-poppers," Janice said as she led Jeff down a long fluorescent-lit hallway. "Some are deathly afraid of popping balloons, and some get really really upset when balloons are popped. I can't quite figure that out. I mean, they're just balloons. Who cares if they get popped?"
Jeff had heard fellow looners on the forums talk about getting turned on by hearing women talk so callously about balloons. He never saw the appeal, but he realized that the words Janice was saying were really turning him on.
"I really don't get it," she continued. "I mean, we blow and pop hundreds of balloons every day. Hell, I've probably busted a dozen balloons today, and it's not even the end of my shift. What's the big deal? One balloon pops, you blow up another. The other day one of our non-poppers was in the lobby when the GL500 I was blowing up suddenly popped in my face. It must have been defective, because it wasn't even blown up all the way. From the look on this guy's face, I thought was going to cry. I felt bad, because it was a big balloon and the bang was pretty loud, but my goodness, you'd think I'd run over his cat instead of blowing a stupid balloon until it burst. And I didn't even do it on purpose. Can you imagine what would have happened if I had blown to popping on purpose? The guy would have been catatonic."
"You blow to pop on purpose?" Jeff asked.
"Not often, but if I'm blowing up a balloon when someone comes to the desk and they ask me to do it, or if they make an off-hand remark about wanting to see me bust it, and if I'm sure there are no non-poppers around, I'll do it."
"That's nice of you," Jeff said, his cock stiffening further at the thought of Janice blowing a balloon to bits by request. If only he had known that when she was inflating that big green monster just minutes before...
"Company policy," Janice explained. "The customer gets what they want. If they want to see me blow a balloon until it busts, I blow it until it busts."
"What, er, what did you do for the guy who was upset when you, uh, when you..." Jeff was wishing he'd taken a magazine to hide his rapidly growing bulge.
"When I blew that GL500 until ti popped? I apologized and we gave him a free dinner at the hotel restaurant, and he asked me if I would inflate another balloon for him, so I did. He was like a little kid. He wanted me to hold his hand, so I did. I held his hand while I blew up a big red Q24, and he was all smiles after that. The funny thing was, he wanted me to blow it up really, really big. You know how those Q24s go lightbulb-shaped. That's what he wanted. Does that make any sense? I mean, if you were a non-popper, wouldn't you want the balloon blown smaller?" She looked at him, as if he had all the answers,
"Er, I don't know," Jeff mumbled. "I guess."