Auchtoon!Look out! Those College Costs Are Gonna Soak Us…
Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, August 14, 2010
One of my favorite water balloon fight techniques (and I believe one of the most effective) is to first lob a balloon at the soakees. (It’s important to throw it high enough so the impact is certain to have the balloon burst.) As the soakees look upward to track the flight, the soaker burns another balloon low and hard, so the soakees either get popped by the low balloon or dodge the low balloon at the risk of the high one bursting on their noggins. Summer fun.
I am not so thrilled, however, with this technique being used on me. And as our family has been following the slow, arching, oncoming costs of sending our first child to college, it seems that our health insurance company has been aiming low — yet another annual increase of 11% come September. Summer not so much fun.
