UG, I was outside makeing homemade ice cream tonite. difficult child and easy child were sleeping, easy child is still not feeling good...son was at local prof display with friends. The entire neighborhood looked and sounded like shock and awe.....and still does. I went in back yard by ice cream maker and got hit by a neighbors um.....bottle rocket? (round cylinder with a long stem?) there are at least 4 of those on my bug, at least 6 on my durango, and 3 on our soft top jeep. I picked up 15 from my 8 ft by 8 ft patio that is attached to my garage by my kitchen window.
easy child was crying, cuz she is trying to sleep, she has to work in morning. I shoved husband into basement with a TV on very loud. I have no idea if these people "know" how to do these or not- but, seems to me, how can they control where they land? Son came home from professional town display holding a peice of ?shrapnel? the size of my hand- said it landed on him, and he was sitting where authorities had them sit as spectators, and yes, there is a brown scorch mark on his shirt. GRRR.
I find it rude, unfair and unsafe to be IN town, houses close together, and people setting these things off all over the place. Yes, I love fireworks, but, not everyone does, and some people get really really freaked by them (like my husband)- actually hen we bought our house, our town at that time did NOT do a professional display, and that had a little to do with us buying here, and we bought far from anywhere where it would be possible to do a professinal display, becuz yes, it triggers my husband back to when he was recon and machine gunner in Nam......not pretty. I find it unfair he is inside our house, but it looks like we are under fire....and I also find it unfair I have to cleanit all up......and I find it scary that what if one of their bottle rockets sets something of MINE on fire? So many people are setting them off, who can even know where any specific one came from? Makes me want to go turn a stereo on full blast to some very weird station and blast it the rest of the nite, faceing all my neighbors windows. ALL these are illegal here. and they are disrupting and disturbing my household. and makeing a mess I will have to clean up. If I want to watch and listen, I will GO to the professional display, the prof displays are totally FREE here......grrr grumble.
Hmm, I feel patriotic, now, I think I might go plug in difficult children boombox, after all it IS a holiday......and maybe I will pop in her "Patriotic songs" CD- and BLAST it so I can hear it while I pick up the darned mess the neighbors created in my yard. Maybe they will enjoy that as much as my husband enjoys the shock and awe in our living room tonite?
My dog is not scared, BUT...he hasa LOT of hair and I am nervous one of those darned things might land on him and burn him, so what am I supposed to do about my dog needing to go outside to do his business?
OK, I know some people do not live IN town, and thats different. Some people do not have neighbors on top of them......and in some places these are legal. BUT we are in a state and community that made them illegal. We ARE in town, and our houses are on top of each other.....and hey some people do still have to WORK.
And when I was out, it looked to me like a LOT of the people out setting them off also have been doing some serious drinking or partying. Makes me worry if they still have their common sense?
What age? Hmm, maybe no special age, maybe just go get a pyrotechnics degree, and then I will not be so nervous?
husband is freaking out, bless him, easy child is crying now, wants to sleep for work.....and dog is paceing cuz he has to pee. and I just keep praying noone sets fire to anything here.