Good advice. Don't be like my dead uncle and laugh and tie firecrackers onto dogs and cats tails. As for me, I was content to blow up my Army men with firecrackers as I played war. Today I have no interest in this bullshit at all. Unemployed and broke neighbors popping firecrackers. Local idiots asking my why I do not like to celebrate our freedom from Britain. I wasn't alive in 1776. You would think they would forget by now but the "fireworks merchants" are always around. So much for July 4th but to each his own.