Our neighbor tends to go all out on the Fourth of July, so there's no
real need to go anywhere for a fireworks show. So when he and his friends
started firing off their works, Bunny and I went outside to enjoy the
show.
Then this one is lit off:
My reaction was pretty much: Hmm … wow that's loud, and large, and
low, and oh XXXX XXXX that's going to XXXXXXX land on me get it off get it off get it off.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Wow.
I've been in an explosion.
Now my hair
caught on fire.
Okay, okay, technically it wasn't on fire, but it was
singed, and man, singed hair smells horrible.
Blech.
Fortunately, I suffered no burns, but I was lucky. It could have much
much worse, which is a nice time for this little PSA:
I think next year, I'll watch the fireworks on TV from the comfort of an underground
bunker.
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![[He's got both kinds of fireworks! Vertical AND horizontal!]](/2011/07/04/t-p7040007.jpg "He's got both kinds of fireworks! Vertical AND horizontal!")
![[Talk about your bright ideas]](/2011/07/04/t-p7040016.jpg "Talk about your bright ideas")
![[Ba-boom!]](/2011/07/04/t-p7040022.jpg "Ba-boom!")
![[Compared to the prior one, that isn't a firework]](/2011/07/04/t-p7040017.jpg "Compared to the prior one, that isn't a firework")
![[It actually felt like plastic—very weird]](/2011/07/04/p7040020.jpg "It actually felt like plastic—very weird")
![[Amateurs: There's a reason professionals exist.]](/2010/07/04/amateurs.jpg "Boom!")
![[The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades]](https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2023/1023.t.jpg "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades")