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Fireworks really piss me off.
- Jul 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
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Dear Asshat residents of my Asshat little town,
Once upon a time I thought they were pretty, well the colored kind that explode up in the sky at least. But this time every year they're gradually becoming the bane of my existence.
I'm tired of hearing people go on and on in this stupid town about how they have the RIGHT to set off fireworks! Well yippity-do, I suppose you do. I guess I don't have a right to have peace and quiet in my own home. I guess my 3 year old doesn't have the right to go to sleep at night without being almost in sleepy-land and then being yanked back into wakefulness by an M-80 going off. I guess my dogs don't have a right to not have to be cowering in corners in their own home, hiding from loud scary noises. I guess it's just tough cookies for me that I have a child with a disability who rarely sleeps as it is but I get to wake up with him at all hours of the night so you can watch something go boom-boom.
It's just total crap. I'm NOT trying to be a party pooper, I would be open to all kinds of compromise on this issue. But do fireworks REALLY need to be lit off here in suburbia, in your driveway? YOU can choose to set your fireworks off somewhere else, my family and I can not CHOOSE to get away from them unless we want to vacate our own home. Even if they are legal in the suburbs, do they really need to be legal for a week and a damn half before the 4th of July? I could probably withstand one night of this bull if that was all I had to put up with.
Not to mention that while I have ALWAYS found it insulting that people are comparing our current economy to the Great Depression, I find it to be even more offensive when suddenly an entire town of down trodden, financially oppressed folks come out in hordes with hundreds of dollars that they are basically planning to light on fire. Glad to see that you can't pay your freaking water bill but you can buy out the VFW's Blackcat stand there Cletus.
I could continue raving but now I have to go tend to dogs that are practically piddling themselves and catch a cup of coffee before my little boy gets woken back up by your Hilbilly Blaster 3000 Dynamite stick. You. Suck. Ass.
Sincerely,
Firework hatin', Party Poopin' biotch
Tags: seriously though my neighbors 6 and 9 year olds are in the driveway lighting off blackcats by themse, i smell a parent of the year award
Comments:
See what I said about fireworks at http://www.examiner.com/x-9784-Charlotte-Preschool-Examiner
You wrote what I wanted to write last night as I wondered where all these unemployed people have the money to burn it right over my house! My youngest had just fallen to sleep and BOOM! crackle pop! she was awake and crying. I was ready to go out in my night gown with a bucket of water and dump all their fireworks for a bath!
Seriously, if everyone is so poor how the eff dothey afford this crap?
Independence Day used to be my favorite holiday! Now, as soon as the sun goes down, I absoltuely HATE it! My baby doesn't sleep, I can't sleep, and I live near a parking lot, and people think they can do whatever they want in that parking lot and not clean up after themselves. Here it's illegal to set them off on the 5th, and people always try, so I always call the cops.
Yep, I used to enjoy some fireworks in the front yard but only on the 4th and only LEGAL fireworks. Now that we have moved the 4th is pretty insane around here too. Illegal fireworks are all over our neighborhood similar to what would be in a city/community firework show...right in our front yard. Yay.
We have to board our dogs this year mainly because our older dog would probably not make it through another 4th around here but the poor guy also doesn't love to leave the house anymore. No fireworks by the kennel because of the airport so although he will miss his family he wont have to risk a heart attack from what happens around here. It's a bummer.
Sorry about your lil one. That really sucks. Luckily my kids aren't too bothered by it but seeing how it scares the crap out of my dogs and the fact that some people go way overboard...takes all of the fun right out of it....for us anyway.
I read some of the other comments and I don't think the OP is "anti" fourth of july or anything, she just doesn't understand the repeated nights of fireworks.
Luckily in our city it is only legal from the 28th to the 4th. Still too long for me.
Fireworks are illegal in this state. Only the firefighters and (maybe not sure) licensed others - are allowed to set them off.
You can't purchase them in this state
You can't go across the state line, purchase them there and bring them back here. The state police set up stings at the state border starting a few weeks before the 4th.
Can't even do sparklers.
And in this economy - most towns have cancelled their firework display due to budgetary constraints.
AMEN to the OP!!! I love fireworks and I love the 4th. And I love going to the park to watch the city set off THE fireworks show.
But for crying out loud.. please quit blowing up fireworks in my neighborhood after 10:00 - well past dark here. My dogs hate it, I think that my house is going to start on fire (because it's dry as shit here), my child wakes up (who is only 1), and I think I'm having a heart attack every 10 minutes.
And I wouldn't mind it so much if the entire thing was kept inside of a week... however, I live in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood. I know they love their fireworks and everything that goes with it. And I'm glad that the appreciate the country they live in enough to celebrate it. But for gawd's sakes, please don't have your celebrations for the prior month and the following month.
And before anyone starts yelling at me for being racist - I know the folks that live in the 4 or 5 houses around me that do the fireworks, and yes, they are Mexican and yes they are nice - but DAMN!
Amen! I HATE Fireworks, called the cops on the WHOLE neighborhood last year, they tried to tell me to just "calm down" Until I called back the THIRD time and explained that I had a nine month old who was freaking out from the scary noises, all the dogs were going crazy, and I was recovering from pneumonia and MRSA, so I couldn't deal with the BS at Three in the f'ing morning. Then they FINALLY Came out and shut down all the BS. The neighbors found out who it was because one of the dispatchers lived in our neighborhood, but when "Cletus" and his kids came to cuss me out and saw me standing in my doorway with a miserable toddler, sick as a dog, with the baseball bat we christened "the Shit Kicker" They decided to back off. I refuse to attend fireworks shows, and my kid will NEVER be allowed to have them in our yard if I have any say.
Here the only "legal" fireworks allowed to be set off in the city limits are the shows put on by the city.
Last night the kids started setting off fireworks at 11pm. My son woke up and cried. An hour laster just as he is asleep~BOOM~ all over again.
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