Balloon's out the window

Noah's birthday party was over a week and a half ago now and somehow one of his balloon's managed to live in my car up until yesterday. I had the balloon secured under my false trunk (I drive a hatch so it has one of those slide and lock in place covers) and after grocery shopping last week, never re-latched it. The balloon stayed under the lip apparently so I forget all about it. Until it flew up, a phantom in my rear view mirror as I was heading over the Sagamore Bridge.

A good driver is taught to look into their mirrors every so often to be aware of the world around them. Often times, it's not you that needs worrying about, it is everyone else around you. So I glanced in my mirror heading up the bridge, one moment there was nothing there, then poof- the phantom balloon.

It soared up to the ceiling and bounced a few times. It swirled in circles chasing its own tail. As I became aware of what was happening my finger had already left my steering wheel and moved to the window up button. The phantom balloon sensed it and rushed forward. It bounced around on the ceiling, swooshed back and forth and made its balloon stretchy-noises. Then as there was only maybe six inches of window (or less) left to go up, it squished itself into the window jam and flew out the window. Whoosh...

Of course my eyes dart to the rear view mirror to see what became of phantom balloon and in true spook manor, it had 'visited' the car behind me making a quick bounce on the windshield and then whooshed off again.