Housework... BBQ... Fireworks... Crowds...
That pretty much sums it up.
One quick little story:
Our neighbor threw a little party on Saturday that lasted into the evening. As the sun set, the fireworks began. I knew that they would be shooting them off until late in the evening, but I was not prepared for what was about to transpire. As I laid down to go to bed I heard what sounded like a pack of firecrackers exploding. Now this is nothing unusual. In fact, I have been known to set off 25, 50 even a couple 100 packs at a time in my day, so I can appreciate the flury of rapid explosions.
What was amazingly different about this particular "pack" of firecrackers exploding in the night was the length at which they continued to burst. After 2 minutes I thought "Man, that's a lot of firecrackers." After 4 minutes, I began to try and calculate how many of those little bombs had gone off already. After 5 minutes I began to think that perhaps I was simply exhausted and had dozed off and missed the ending of one particular blast session and had awakened int he midst of another. But no, my wife assured em that it was all one coninuous explosion. Well, approximately 12 minutes after the bombardment on my auditory senses began, then percussive sounds gave way to an eerie silence which was followed a few seconds later by cheering and whistling. Over 12 minutes of firecrackers exploding continuously! Holy crap! All I could do was laugh at the absurdity of it all.
If you figure how fast a pack of 50 firecrackers goes up, that amounts to a heck of a lot of firecrackers. And it wasn't just a pop every second or so, it was multiple explosions every second, with hardly any silence in between explosions. That's a lot of money up in smoke in a short time. Thankfully, I didn't have to pay to get to enjoy to the show.
Anyone else see or hear any crazy fireworks displays put on by their neighbors?
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