I live next door to a school. It’s the Fourth of July. What do you think is going to happen? Right. Fireworks like woa. Explosions all night, just from the surrounding area, never mind the people in the schoolyard. Whatever. Fine.

So just now:

BOOM BOOMBOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM! FIZZLE! HISSS! BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM!

Then this tiny squeaky kids voice pipes up in the fresh silence:

Thank you!

Utterly silent during the fireworks, piping up when it takes a break, just the happiest thing on Earth.

(This is not the place to go into how dangerous firewroks are, etc. Just to revel in the glee of a small child.)