Last night at my 'hood's annual block party, one of my neighbors pulled up a lawn chair and started lighting firecrackers and handing them to kids. Some kids threw them on the ground next to their own feet. Others threw them on the neighbors' lawns. Then I said in a lady-like tone, "THAT IS AMAZINGLY STUPID AND SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT. BUT NOT US," and stomped home, family in tow.