Late July 4th Humor

I just realized I forgot to tell you my July 4th story.

I went with some friends to someone's house and while there we were going to light off some smaller - sold by roadside - fireworks. All was going fine until......

One wasn't packaged right and when the fuze was lit it tipped over and fireworks were exploding everwhere!! I'm not exaggerating that part. They were shooting in front of the house, to the side, over the top, across the street into a field .... just EVERY which way.

I flipped out --- go figure. Started screaming and running, I didn't know where to b/c that's the closest I've ever been to a war zone! I was going to dive under a car but then thought, things are exploding at ground level and what if the gas tank is hit and the car explodes!!

I'm pretting much runnin and screaming like a chicken with its head cut off and one flew RIGHT BY MY HEAD!!! I'm not exaggerating that point!! That's when I really flipped out. Thankfully the Lord watched over me, but that was quite an experience.

My one friend says, after it's all done, "I told you not to move." HELLO!!! Do you know me at all!?!??!?!? I said, NEXT TIME GRAB ME AND PIN ME DOWN!!! I'm not rational in stressful situations .... I'm not even rational in non-stressful situations!! Too funny. Only-2-me ....thought I'd share.

Mental note: Next time .... watching "home" fireworks from INSIDE!!

PS - That particular lemon of an explosive was given free b/c "x" amount of dollars were spent.....They failed to say it was b/c the little child packaging it didn't do it right!! Maybe roadside explosives aren't the best! ha ha