Fireworks
For years and years the 4th of July was maybe my favorite non-Christmas holiday. A full day of food, friends, and explosions what is there not to like about that. As all things though time shifted that perception of the holiday, and of course 2020 quite literally washed it out. This years 4th I spent recalling a horrible, but now several decades after the fact semi humorous life lesson I witnessed firsthand on the 4rh. A girlfriend of mine at the time took me to one of her very "yuppy" friends for 4th bonfire party. I am not what one would consider a part of that crowd, yet by virture of my date I was reluctantly accepted in. The night rolled on and we did have a lot of fun, and then the hour of poor reasoning began. The first clue the evening was taking a wrong turn occured when the guys started playing tag with roman candles. As if the concept of rocketing fire balls at one another could ever be a bad thing. Eventually that gave way to bottle rocket russian roulette, and ma...