March 16, 2003
Local Colour
Nearly froze watching a parade this evening. I have to say it - a
lot of the people just were not trying. I mean, if you're going to drive your truck
through town as part of the parade, at least paint a face on the side of it. Or pin
a bit of bunting on it.
I was beginning to question my priorities in life having waited about for an hour
and a half just to have some fat little kid with a purple tinsel wig giving me the
finger from the back of a truck. Ah, entertainment indeed.
The long-anticipated firework display was a bit of a washout too. After the
second or third launch, an unexpected ignition caused the whole pile of fireworks
to blow up at once, ending the show prematurely, and scaring the hell out the
local Civil Defence volunteers (who had to spend the subsequent half hour
searching for 'unexploded ordnance'). At least there were no injuries.