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KLS's avatar

I grew up loving the big shows, and I enjoyed the years in my childhood where you could actually legally buy and set off smaller fireworks in parts of L.A. That is all over for me now, knowing how many people and pets are very disturbed by them. Plus the air quality suffers. Still, we watched in awe the show at the local high school a quarter mile away. But all things considered I'm ready for the growing trend of drone shows.

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Steve Peterman's avatar

When I was a kid Washington Park in Milwaukee had great 4th of July Fireworks and we looked forward to them for months. But one year some customer or supplier at my dad's restaurant gave him tickets to stock car races way the hell in the western suburbs. He thought it would be a treat for my brother and me and a rare father/sons bonding experience. Instead, he found himself stuck with two miserable brats frying in the sun, getting headaches from the noise of the engines and nausea from the smell of gas and burnt tires. After about twenty laps of watching us sitting with our fingers in our ears he gave up and got us home in time to get to the Park with our cousins for the fireworks. It was that day he finally realized neither of his kids would ever compete in Nascar.

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