I may be 36 now but my mother still seems to think she knows me better than me. Like she always tells me I’m not a Democrat(because they raised me to be republican). She tells me what food I do and do not like(she bases this off...
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I may be 36 now but my mother still seems to think she knows me better than me. Like she always tells me I’m not a Democrat(because they raised me to be republican). She tells me what food I do and do not like(she bases this off of when I was like 5 years old). And she loves to tell what I do not hate. “Oh you do not hate the 4th of July, you just don’t like the things associated with it.” Nope I pretty much hate the forth of July. There are a myriad of reasons all of which I will spew off to you. Reason number 1, 4th of July has became just another holiday to drink. Except to make this one better we give drunk people explosives to set off(more on that). Seems wise. Just like Cinco De Mayo, the people of the United States seem to find the need to drink excessively, but they want to do it with the excuse that it is a holiday. Now unlike Cinco De Mayo, most people actually know what the holiday is for(most people think Cinco De Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day…it is not). However, other than knowing that it is our nations birthday most “Americans” don’t seem to know much about America. Case in point(and Reason #2). I took a quiz on line that was 10 questions off of the Citizenship test. I got 10 out of 10. At the point when I was taking the quiz only 23% were scoring above 60%. That is just sad as they are not hard questions. Or take a couple weeks ago when I was out with friends and the people next to us were debating about the presidential election. They started talking about the great presidents. They all agreed that Ben Franklin was one of the best. Hmmm. Even more sad was that two of the women I was with also thought he was president at one time. And last but not least I give you my conversation I had on 4th of July this year at the Papa Murphy’s take and bake pizza place. Worker #1:”Happy 4th of July” Me:”Thanks, but I am Canadian and don’t celebrate it.” Worker #1: “You don’t? Is that just you or all Canadians?” Me: “All of Canada does not celebrate it.” Worker #2 looking at worker #1 like he is a moron. Which he is. Worker #1: “What other countries don’t celebrate the 4th of July?” Worker #2 again stares at worker #1 in disbelief. I go to answer but worker #2 chimes in. Worker #2: “Dude, no one else celebrates 4th of July except us.” Worker#1: “Really, why?” Worker #2: “Dude, you did graduate from high school, right?” Worker #1 nods yes. Me: “Because the 4th of July is The United States Independence Day. There is no need for other countries to celebrate it.” Worker #1: “Oh, I thought it was like Christmas.” Me: “No, Jesus doesn’t care about who celebrates America’s independence.” Worker #2 laughs, Worker #1 looks confused. I leave. Reason number 3: Fireworks. Now before you say how can you hate fireworks, I don’t. I really like the professional ones that are tall and bright and shot off by people who shoot fireworks for a living. Fireworks that are shot over a wide open space or over a body of water like they are done here(for the most part). The fireworks that end at eleven o’clock at night. Those fireworks I love. I have a problem with the bring them home and do it yourself fireworks. The ones that started at 6 pm and went until fucking 5am in my neighborhood. The ones that for a solid 2 hours were lit over my house. I am super cautious about this as not one but TWO teachers I used to work with had their houses burnt down by these fine armature firework shooter offers. I’m talking about the fireworks set off by the 11 year boy down the street who was out there unsupervised with just a large box of fireworks. These are the fireworks I hate. Technically they are outlawed in my town. But the surrounding towns allow it. And since it is too hard to catch some one doing it, the police do nothing about it. I understand it, I just hate it. Give the kiddies some sparkles and be done with it. Don’t light stuff that can catch my house on fire people. Really. Reason #4. My birthday. That’s right, this is where I get selfish. You see, mine being on the 2nd(and my hubby’s being on the 5th) sucks. Why does it suck? Because it
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