Thread:Merrimack/@comment-32738051-20170101052531/@comment-32738051-20170101071915

Well, time for my semi-annual gripe about days of the year for which fireworks are traditional. It is now after 2:00am and people are still shooting off fireworks. At least my neighborhood stopped at 1:45am...the police weren't taking complaints until 1:00am (even though there are no official holiday exceptions to the quiet laws). But the ones still going are enough to keep me awake. I've a good mind to drive around to all these residences with my windows down and my music blaring at 7:00am! Assuming I can wake up by then...assuming I get to go to sleep.

But my really big complaint is that, at least in my neighborhood, people were placing their mortars and firing them off in the middle of the street...with a steady flow of cars going by! It's not like the traffic is unusual...every night all night there is a steady flow of traffic on my street. What were these idiots thinking? I didn't hear any accidents so apparently at least the drivers were smarter than the residents. But I think we just got lucky no one drove over a lit mortar.

Hopefully everyone else had a much nicer, and safer (with enough sleep), new year's eve. 🙏😍