Cans of Redi-Whip have been flying off the shelves...”
Cleaning ladies used to tell wild stories about a couple of attorneys (one male, one female) in a building where we used to have offices a lot of years ago - at least once a week they would find an empty can of whipped cream in the trash. Pretty funny and became quite the talk of the building.
Also, back in the 1960’s, our local bank kept balloons and would blow one up for any kiddo that came in banking hours. If they were closed, they would always leave a nitrous oxide tank in the outer lobby area so people could inflate balloons for their kid’s birthday parties. My how times have changed.
>they would always leave a nitrous oxide tank in the outer lobby area so people could inflate balloons for their kid’s birthday parties
I suspect it went over like a lead balloon considering that NO2 is heavier than air.
I remember sitting in a bar, the Shandy Gaft, with a couple of buddies at Penn State doing “whippets”. This was in the early ‘70s. We had a reuseable whipped cream cannister, the kind restaurants use, where you just screwed in NO2 cartridges, one at a time. The other patrons (and the bouncers) couldn’t make up their minds if we were doing something illegal. So nobody bothered us.