Happy/Not Happy 4th of July!

[Teefies2]

Okay I get it. It's a holiday weekend and you got 3-4 days off. You want to celebrate our country's independance (giving you the benefit of the doubt, I know you really just want to get wasted and shoot off fireworks). Hey I'm glad for you! I would love to have 3 days off too. But, you see, I can't. Because I work in retail.

What does that mean for you?? Absolutely nothing What does that mean for me?? You are still shooting off fireworks at 1:30am ..... and it's not even July 4th. Well, I guess technically it is, since it's after midnight. I have to work in the morning. I have to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when you start pounding on the door at 8:01am to get your hangover cure/more beer to continue the party. So pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee, enough with the fireworks!

Oh and don't think I don't remember last year, when after your fireworks ended around 2am, you and your wife/girlfriend/babymomma/whatever got into a screaming match outside. FFS can we just kill the noise????

[WishfulSpirit]

Happened around here too. If fireworks are illegal where you live, you can try calling the cops on those idiots. Hopefully for the gene pool they'll screw up and end up sterilizing themselves by getting a firework to the groin.

I did have an idea for a safe and some-what legal (depending on noise ordinance, not that those are being enforced anyway) method of dispersing a crowd of men (who tend to be the most boom-oriented): get on a loudspeaker and start describing my period in explicit detail.

[notalwaysright]

Well, it seems like everyone on the road at about 11:00 AM today was already drunk. Serious, I saw the weirdest stuff. Two people made illegal U-turns on a busy main street with 3-4 lanes going in either direction. One person got in the left hand turn lane then cut me off by jumping back into the right lane, then a few streets later turns right from the straight lane. At the grocery store (yes, I had to get food today, it was a mistake) two cars waited for me to turn even though I was literally the last person who should have gone.

Oh, funny sighting. Lady in the store had one of those small carts... It was totally overloaded in a hilarious way. She had filled both the top and bottom racks, and had a giant package of toilet paper balanced on the top. It was taller than she was, and she had to steer with one hand and hold the toilet paper with the other. She couldn't see, so she was leaning over to the side.

There might be some rain today, and it rained overnight, so hopefully we won't get any fires.

[MoonCat]

The cops couldn't care less about illegal fireworks, at least where I live.

[cindybubbles]

On Canada Day and Victoria Day, the only days I know that we can buy fireworks, I hear a lot of the boom-boom-booms, yet not so much of a light show from the amateurs. The rockets shoot up, and go out with a tiny bang.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Did something exciting happen we should have been celebrating?

[wolfie]

Yes. July 4th is the anniversary of the first transcontinental train from Montreal to Port Moody (the track would reach Vancouver the following year).

[eltf177]

The cops couldn't care less about illegal fireworks, at least where I live.

Same here, which is why I have to end up taking matters into my own hands...

[Ironclad Alibi]

Same here, which is why I have to end up taking matters into my own hands...

Shouldn't do that. You might lose a finger or two.

[Aria]

Yes. July 4th is the anniversary of the first transcontinental train from Montreal to Port Moody (the track would reach Vancouver the following year).

That and it's my birthday. Feel free to celebrate with me in Alberta.

[Teefies2]

That and it's my birthday. Feel free to celebrate with me in Alberta.

Happy Birthday! It's my birthday today July 6, so we're practically twins!

[siskaren]

Oh, funny sighting. Lady in the store had one of those small carts... It was totally overloaded in a hilarious way. She had filled both the top and bottom racks, and had a giant package of toilet paper balanced on the top. It was taller than she was, and she had to steer with one hand and hold the toilet paper with the other. She couldn't see, so she was leaning over to the side.

I've seen the same thing (although not so bad that they had to steer with one hand because they were using the other one to hold merchandise in place), and then at the same time I saw a woman with a full size cart with only four small items in it (and I mean that's how many items she had in the cart when she went to pay).

[BPFH]

The cops couldn't care less about illegal fireworks, at least where I live.

Where my parents are, too. Where I live? Heh heh heh. That's another story entirely.

State law here (Michigan) allows municipalities to restrict firework usage to the day before, day of, and day after a national holiday. The city where I live has an ordinance that does exactly that. Some grade-A idiot down the street from me thought it'd be a good idea to ignore that early last week, and someone (not me) called it in.

The police responded.

The fire department responded.

And, assuming my son was correct, the police called in a bomb squad.

I'd say the city made its point, wouldn't you?

[Nunavut Pants]

Did something exciting happen we should have been celebrating?

What a friend of mine has taken to calling "The Original Brexit".

[greek_jester]

What a friend of mine has taken to calling "The Original Brexit".

and then at the same time I saw a woman with a full size cart with only four small items in it (and I mean that's how many items she had in the cart when she went to pay).

My mother did that when she was still able to walk a bit, before she started using the scooters; she'd use the trolley as a walker, even if she only wanted a couple of bits. Easier than juggling a basket, walking stick and handbag.

I've done it myself since I have back issues and suffer if I use a basket.