‘They don’t come into my house’

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Suzanne is terrified: those balloon clowns and empty balloons that have to be inflated. So she prefers to walk around it with a big bow.

Suzanne (45), mother of a 14-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son:

“I hate balloons and go crazy for birthdays or when my son Tobias gets one as a present.

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Friends tease me about it by holding balloons close to my face and running their nails over them. They also sometimes send a child to me with an empty balloon and the assignment: ask Suzanne to blow it up. Horrible. If there really is no other option, I’ll blow it up, but with a face like a cobra is coming at me. I’m terrified they’ll punch me in the face. That’s because as a toddler my beautiful red balloon exploded in my face when I walked past a barbed hedge.

“I am terrified that they will slap my face”

I always walk around balloon clowns with a big bow and the kids now know that if they go to McDonald’s or the party store, they can never take the balloons home with them.”

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