-Entry 4-

[rookiekiller]

One of the more irritating things about the area I live in is the annual Independence Day fireworks show.

I live nearby a river, which is normally quite nice- but in this case... the fireworks they shoot off over it are absurdly loud. Even in my study, with its thick, noise-canceling walls, the booming still hurts my ears and gives me a migraine

Comments

[lunar_skye]

Payne, it is one in the afternoon.

[rookiekiller]

...and?

[lunar_skye]

Why are you complaining about something that has yet to come to pass?

[rookiekiller]

...Because I simply don't like them.

[saltyolddoc]

Used to be I took a lot of joy in all the Independence Day celebrations this city had to offer. Parade, fireworks, all of it. It's uplifting, mm-hmm.

Or at least, it was. These days, I gotta stay at the clinic most the night 'cause people can be real jackasses with their fireworks, and there's always at least one burn case. Kind of depresses me, day like this.

You, though? You're just a crotchety old coot. Live a little.

And go apologise to your wife.

[rookiekiller]

I don't mind the fireworks themselves. It's the noise associated with such that bothers me, as well as the fact that they're simply over-complicated.

I have apologized to my wife, though I fail to see how that could possibly be any of your business. She simply refuses to come back yet for some reason.

[droehnendrecht]

But Herr Payne! Fireworks and whistling and loud explosions are about freedom and what it's like to be in America!

[rookiekiller]

I understand the principle, Gavin. Were they slightly quieter, and less complicated, I would enjoy them. As a matter of course, though, I simply can't tolerate anything that causes me pain.

[droehnendrecht]

But from what I am told, Americans like to celebrate independence by blowing things up! How can you be silently independent?

[musical_cocoon]

You know, for a geezer like yourself, you complain like a two year old, man.

[rookiekiller]

It's not too much to ask that I not be deafened, Crescend.

[0000ff]

What do flowers have to do with independence, anyway?

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Lilium putrefactum, often called the Borginian Corpse Lily, is sold in great quantities from market stalls on Borginian Independence Day. Its association with the Borginian self-government movement stems from the Battle of Pig Meadow, in which revolutionaries wore the lily on their breast as a charm against gunshot wounds.

[rookiekiller]

...American independence. Why the devil would Borginian history mean anything to me?

[0000ff]

Oh, I see! In the future, please be more specific!