At the risk of sounding curmudgeonly...Follow

IT'S NOT THE ******* 4th OF JULY YET!

Ok, so you have firecrackers. Bully for you. Set them off on the fourth till midnight, 1 AM, whenever, I don't care. Revel in the rockets' red glare all night long, it's all good.

But don't ******* be setting the damned things off starting on the 23rd of June every night at 11PM when people are trying to sleep because they have to be up early for work the next morning!

That will be all...

I hear ya. We live in a rural area where there are not fireworks laws and the fireworks stands line the road for 5 miles. They started setting the damn things off last week. Not at 6pm or even 8pm but friggin midnight when people are sleeping.

Annoying as hell!

Nah, you'll be fine since you sacrificed the bunny family.

There was a nice firework display last Saturday night. I seem to remember the same happening last year a week before the 4th.

Hey, I gotta vent somewhere, and since telling my neighbors what I think of them would go over like a pregnant pole-vaulter, well, you're the lucky recipient.

And does the pole have anything to do with the pregnancy?

I think you mean SC, NC doesnt have good fireworks unless you go to one of those backwater stores, are paying in cash, and promise not to say where you got them. They're serious about illegal fireworks down there, it almost feels like you're buying drugs or something.

Isn't Cletus a man's name? Kinda contrary to the "women using big words" fetish...

I was bored out of my mind with a couple of friends yesterday and was going to grab some fireworks and light them up for no real reason.


We pretty much didn't since it was raining, though.


I wouldn't light them up late, either, since I know people have jobs and all (myself included), but lightning them up in general isn't a bad thing.

I bet they've got some good weed.

I've considered this, but the problem is, I don't know where they are coming from, who is doing it, or whether or not they will still be at it 10 minutes later when I decide to call the cops.

I have called the police on the softball fields that is practically in our backyard. The Parks and Recreation administration says the games are supposed to be done by 9 PM (we called them first and told them to enforce their own guidelines), but sometimes they have been going out there until 11, and my husband has to wake up for work at 5 AM.

The lights are bad enough (some genius decided to donate for stadium intensity lighting in a friggin' 2-diamond field behind an elementary school) so that it's bright as day in a 4-block radius, but when you tack on the fact that there is a lot of noise associated with a softball game, the result is that from May to September it's virtually impossible to get any sleep if you keep your windows open. Since it is also virtually impossible to get some sleep if you keep your windows closed because you're roasting alive, you can see the dilemma.

I don't like being a spoilsport, but when I see common sense and/or courtesy has not been applied to a given situation, I tend to get cranky.



Edited, Fri Jul 1 11:20:07 2005 by Ambrya

Wow, you're a crochety old fuc[b][/b]ker ain't ya? I'm surprised you can even figure out how to turn the internet on and off grandma. Sadly i can't pull that BS 'round these parts, it's illegal to possess/use fireworks(excluding sparklers) where i live. For some reason though, i've yet to be arrested for lighting them off.

I think I would be more pissed about the softball games than the fireworks. You only have to deal with fireworks for about 2 weeks out of the summer, more or less? The softball games you'd have to deal with all summer.

My old apartment was actually right next to a park where the had a softball field and they also held soccor games there. But they were always shut down by 9pm at the latest, so it never bothered me.