Fourth of July Fireworks

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Do they cause anyone sensory distress? they just annoy me, and dont get me wrong, i am patriotic, i just work early in the morning, started at 530 this morning and 6 tomorrow morning, so ten oclock fireworks keep me awake longer than i want to be.

I live next door to city park that hosts the huge fireworks display. I hope to sleep through it.

I started out being really scared of loud sounds, like balloons popping. Fireworks were way too loud for me. My cousins lived way out in the middle of nowhere and loved going to a rural fireworks stand every June and buying lots of black cat firecrackers, tanks, boats, sparklers, snakes, smoke bombs, Roman candles. I would visit them a week around the 4th of July, stopping at the fireworks stand on the way to their house, buying all kinds of goodies for us to light.
I got so comfortable with firecrackers, I was holding them in my hands while lighting them with a punk and throwing them, watching them explode in mid air. I thought that was cool.

Nowadays, I get so nervous, I can't even hold the punk to light the firecracker on the pavement. I tried to light a strand of them and was shaking, pulling my hand away before I lit them.

I still like fireworks shows. It's raining so hard right now, I don't know if there will even be any. It's been raining for two days, this fourth might be a washout

I love fireworks.

Bores me, fireworks have no logical purpose except to make me like to breath the outside air less and less the next morning.

I love the smell of gunpowder and blowing things up. I love burning things too. Fireworks are awesome because they let me do all of the above.

I love the colours that the fireworks produce, it's beautiful. I love watching them go off. I just wish they weren't so damn loud.

I love fireworks. The noise bothers me so I usually try to get away, so I can see but not hear so much.

The sound of fireworks bothers me, moreso now than when I was a kid, for some reason. The screaming ones especially.

Watching from a distance isn't so bad I just don't want to hear them.

My father use to spend a small fortune for fireworks whan I was little. He would say it was for the kids but he was using them as much as were. The fourth of July, Halloween, Thanks Giving, Christmas, siblings birthdays, and Easter were the only times I felt good or had a good time as a child. I wish they had affordable video cameras in the early seventies and eighties so I could have captured those moments for me to re-live today. Especially the roman candle and screamer bottle rocket fights my brothers and I had up and down the street with the kids from the neighborhood.

We have one super-8 film from one Christmas when I was six I think my father got me the whole set of the planet of the apes action figures along with all the ones from star trek. When I watched it when I was twelve I could not believe how happy I looked back then compared to how I was by sixth grade. By the time I was 12 the NT's have already wore me down.

A Capital Fourth topic

Bang. Happy Independence Day!! !

I like watching them, for a little while anyway. I don't like the loud noise, especially as they keep going off throughout the night. The stress it causes tends to be cumulative -- a few minutes is no issue, but a few hours is bad. I think the noise bothers me a little more each year. In recent years I've usually tried to be in the backcountry for the 4th -- wish I was there now with all the noise.

I used to hate the noise. Which scared me.

I still don't like the noise, but I can take it. And I like the sparkle.

Fireworks don't bother me in the least bit. I love fireworks. Unfortunately, our show got canceled due to rain.