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July 05, 2006
Ka-Boom
Categories: Personal
Sarah remarked yesterday that we weren't going to see any fireworks this year. The Rock Hill display was on Saturday and we certainly had no plans to drive into Charlotte for their big uptown fireworks show. We were home from the Bryson house by 7:30 or so, watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and were generally chilling out when loud explosions rocked our street. I peeked outside to see out neighbors shooting what seemed to be metric tons of colored high explosive into the sky.
Our negihbors are friendly folks who obviously had a lot of people visiting for the 4th. A camper was parked in their back ghbors were safe and careful; they even cleaned up everything when they were done. That's more than I can say for the rest yard and three or four cars were parked along the street. A crowd was gathered on their front lawn, while a couple of guys were in the center of our cul-de-sac lighting fuses and getting away. These were serious fireworks, rivaling the professional display sponsored by the ciry for the Come See Me festival back in April. Sarah and I sat in our camp chairs on the front porch and watched the show. It was pretty impressive, but I could not help but wonder and the general wisdom of selling such high powered fireworks to anyone and everyone. Is their another state (besides this great state of South Carolina) that let's people buy any and every type of pyrotechnic and rocket known to man. I would not have been surprised if our neighbors pulled out an honest-to-god mortar and started firing.
Our neiighbors were safe and careful; they even cleaned up everything when they were done. That's more than I can say for the rest of the people on our street. I drove though piles of Black Cat debris and over expended rockets on my way to work this morning. It's all further proof that I am getting old, as I complain about the noise and trash. Next I'll be spraying the neighborhood kids with my water hose and shouting "get off of my lawn!" I'm not quite there yet, as we did enjoy the show our nieghbors put on; we didn't even have to leave our porch!
Posted by Nakia at July 5, 2006 09:02 AM