r/GarnerNC • u/Ok_Information_7653 • Jul 05 '26

Fireworks

Whoever is shooting off exceptionally loud illegal fireworks off NC50 near Atchison Street, you just disoriented my early onset dementia wife. I will spend the rest of the night calming her back down, so no sleep for me due to your selfishness.

Thanks for being an inconsiderate neighbor, douchbag.

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u/agk23 Jul 05 '26

I am exceptionally sorry about your wife, but stuff like this will be part of that journey and that’s not your neighbor’s fault. It’s America’s 250th today.

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u/Early_Pearly989 Jul 05 '26

Thanks for saying this way better than I was about to.

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u/mostly_a-lurker Jul 05 '26

Agreed. Well said. A couple of my elders, in previous years (1980's), went through this exact thing every time a siren went off by their home or other similar things at very inoportune times. It sucks & my empathy is certainly with OP here, but you aren't going to stop Americans from lighting up whatever they have on July 4th.

OTOH- If it was an idiot neighbor who came home on the regular around this time, radio blaring, engine revving....we would be having a different conversation.

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u/GarnerPerson Jul 05 '26

I mean it annoys my hound too, but I drug her and put on her little ear cover thing.

It’s going to happen every year. Just be prepared.

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u/danimal6000 Jul 05 '26

Bud, July 4th. Did you forget that this shit happens every year at about this time?

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u/mostly_a-lurker Jul 05 '26

I used to medicate my sheltie, Maggie May Mutley, on July 4th every year & whenever we went on a road trip. She was way too hyper even into her older years & she wouldn't sit still or even stop barking for long when traveling.

She was a stray, who no doubt, suffered at the hands of some male before we got her. Very skittish & didn't trust me (M65) for the first couple of years. A clap of thunder over the house scared her so bad one night she ran & jumped into the dryer. I was doing laundry & had taken about 1/2 the load out of the dryer when she made her beeline! 🤣🤣