Fingers & Toes

Our neighborhood sounded like a war zone.

It went on for a long time too, and I thought about the good old days when people used to gather at a town park to watch fireworks.

Ollie handled it like a champ for the first hour but then there were a few loud blasts that scared the piss out of me.

My poor dog was shaking for an hour.

And I could only wonder why.

Is it fun to shoot them off?

They aren’t the huge fireworks that light up the sky, they’re just little bangs.

They certainly don’t make anyone go “ooh and aah”.

And aren’t they illegal?

And expensive?

Spending thousands of dollars?

Just another example of me getting aggravated as an old man.

Part of me wants to think:

“Ahh, let them have fun.”

But they’re messing with my dog!

And man, tomorrow will be filled with stories of people who lost their fingers, or worse. 

You Tube will have 50 idiotic videos.

Ain’t that America?