Grrr....I found out last night was Vietnamese New Year

Fell asleep around 11:00 last night. Around 11:45, a noise woke me up. I got up and looked out the window, across the lake, to see where the noise was coming from. My wife asked me what I was doing. I told her I thought I heard a gunshot. I live in a pretty nice gated community in suburbia so a gunshot would be very unusual. Anyway, as I am looking out the window I see (and hear) the flash of a ton of firecrackers going off. My wife was pretty upset at all the noise. Thinking it was a couple kids I drove around the corner to tell them to quiet down.

I ran into a couple of Vietnamese families out in the street, with buckets of fireworks at the ready. I pretty rudely asked them what was going on. The guy in charge told me they were celebrating the Vietmanese New Year. I told him it was midnight, on a work night, and he needed to lay off the fireworks. He got pretty pissy with me, saying they ok'd it with the neighbors. I asked him if he ok'd it with the neighborhood, and told him I was calling the cops if I heard another firecracker.

Anyway, they stopped the fireworks. This morning my wife says to me "you should have let them celebrate their holiday".

Not happy this morning.

 

I'm over it now. I honestly thought it was a group of kids raising hell. I live in a very small community, these people could have lit the fireworks off around 8pm OR they could have put a note in everybody's mailbox. If I had known it was a holiday I wouldn't have went over there.

 

+1. Had I known it was adults I probably wouldn't have went over.