每天读一篇英语小故事：Man Flies 200 Miles(1)

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　　Bo Jackson was sitting in his favorite chair, drinking a beer, and watching
a football game. At halftime, a car commercial featured a few hundred helium
balloons floating skyward. I could do that, Bo thought. I could strap a bunch of
balloons to my lawn chair and float up into the sky.
        　　He told his wife. She asked him how many beers he’d had. He told her that
he wasn’t joking. What was the problem, he asked. Blow up a bunch of balloons,
tie them to his chair, and away he goes. How was he going to steer, she asked.
The wind would steer him, he said. How would he know where he was going to land?
When he saw a nice landing spot, he’d just shoot holes in the balloons with his
BB pistol, he said. He told her not to be so negative.
        　　He went online and found out what wind patterns were in Oregon that time of
the year. He called up his friend Duke, who was a pilot. In a few days, Bo had
it all figured out. He called up a balloon store and ordered 50 balloons and a
few helium tanks to fill up the balloons. His 6-year-old son asked if he could
go with him. His wife promised to divorce him if he actually went through with
this.