Post-bonfire night rage - officially a miserable old woman

[SinkGirl]

Round the corner from our house is a professional fireworks shop. It’s only open for a short time a few times a year. Of course it means that many of the owners of the hundreds of terraced houses in the surrounding streets buy loads of professional, loud bastard rockets and screaming things and the week either side of bonfire night and NYE is constant booming and screeching and I get increasingly annoyed.

Just walked to the corner shop (because our online shop contained no loo roll) and there was a queue down the road for the fireworks shop. That’s weird, I thought.

There was a big sign in the window saying 50% OFF. Awesome.

Then someone started setting off extremely loud rockets nearby AND IT WASN’T EVEN PROPERLY DARK. They’re still going now.

Even worse, the fireworks shop window was stacked high with bloody multipacks of toilet paper. Why are they selling toilet paper, except that their fireworks are so loud you might soil yourself?

I need to move.

It's stacked with toilet paper so they can call themselves an essential retailer I imagine. Twats.

Some little shit kid almost caused an accident near me just now - chucked a firework into the road causing the car in front of me to stop suddenly. Nearly went into the back of it.

I don't mind fireworks on bonfire night etc but fucking hell it's become a month long celebration. And the super loud bastards are REALLY loud!

Report to police as non essential and hope they get fined?

@Ellmau

Report to police as non essential and hope they get fined?

Tempting. I don’t want to screw anyone over but it is ridiculous. They have a table in the doorway so you can’t walk into the shop... so I guess it’s... takeaway fireworks?

It’s fine on bonfire night, but it’s the just the never bloody ending, professional strength endless bloody booming that drives me insane. I can’t actually explain how loud they are - some are obviously made for displays where people are very far away, not for being set off at the end of a short garden in a row of terraces. I’m surprised they’re actually allowed to sell them to the public.

Wondering if you live near me, OP 😂😂

If you’re hearing a giant bang approximately every 2 seconds right now then you may well do.

Oh well, at least it’s early - it’s when they start setting them off at midnight that I really start raging 😬

Post-bonfire rage? It is still ongoing off course - being Saturday. I am leaving work at 20.00 hours and can hear them out there. Not looking forward to walking to the bus stop.

We've had them every night for over a month. A family in the local park, at 3pm, daylight, kids in the middle of the road setting some off!! They start about 5/5:30 and go off intermittently until midnight/1am