Happy New Years, everyone.
So, every year my family lights off fire works. This is very illegal in this part of Texas, however the local fire department doesn't care at all. Actually while I was writing that first bit, three police cars and a fire truck showed up.
The firemen were kind of pissed because they know that we won't set anything on fire, other than the fireworks, of course. The cops, being incompetant, American cops, gave up because everyone involved ran away.
Really, the arival of the police was probably due to a new invention, if it can be called that, that my brother and sister came up with. They called it the firebox, which was an apt description. The firebox was a cardboard box filled with fireworks. This included Roman Candles and was probably the worst idea ever thought of by two tipsy teenagers.
I seriously thought the nieghborhood would burn.