It's small, it's stupid, and it's all too relatable for some of us. Let's be totally honest here, the guy was just trying to do the obvious thing and put a balloon in a cart. To his credit, this strategy would have worked with 99.9% of other objects. It must make you feel pretty bad to look around and realize that you, a grown adult, have just lost your balloon.
And with that, maybe there's evidence the world won't completely slip into utter chaos. Sure, the strangeness of students can result in some weird and stupid school stories, but that doesn't mean students are necessarily complete animals all the time. Sometimes it can be teachers who say weird and wild junk.
In all fairness the Balloonfest of '86 was in no way one of those tiny mistakes. It was a historical fail. What did they think would happen when they went ahead and released a record number of balloons into the atmosphere? Obviously things like gnarly traffic jams and an interference with air traffic were going to result from this mindless move. Must've looked cool for a hot second before everything basically came undone.
