Have you ever set off fireworks?

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Have you ever set off any fireworks?

Yes.
I've even had roman candle fights.

No. I like my fingers.

My dad used to do some with a big bucket of sand.

I used Sparklers and lit the Burning Schoolhouse.
I loved those things.




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I played around a lot with fireworks as a child. I really loved it. Now, of course I know it is dangerous.

No.
They're illegal where I live.

Yes. There weren't many displays around when I was young, so it was normal to buy a box of fireworks and set them off yourself. I don't think I've ever been to a display in my life. I always thought that would be too passive for me. I'm not much of a spectator. It's not very dangerous if you follow common-sense safety rules.

I used to know a guy who was a chemical engineer. He would bring home tons of chemicals and make his own large fireworks. That was really doing it properly. The commercial fireworks were feeble in comparison. And the cost was probably about the same.

Every year since as soon as kindergarten.

Been handling explosive and riskier types since age 10 just for kicks.


It just means I'm lucky so far. If I'm not, I'd be an amputee or dead.

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Nope. As an artist, I intend to leave this world with the same number of fingers as the ones I came into the world with.

I don't want to have to learn how to use a pen or a paintbrush with my toes.

As a child I had a firework accident because I'd been protected too much. I'd never been allowed close enough to a firework to see how the blue touchpaper worked, so I thought it had to be set alight with a visible flame. One bonfire night I somehow got hold of a firework, and tried to light it in the embers of the bonfire. All I got was a faint glow, so presuming it wasn't really lit, I carried it around asking people if they had any matches. Of course it went off in my hand. Lucky for me it wasn't the exploding type, and the only damage was a scorched coat. The accident would never have happened if I'd been allowed to set off a firework or two under supervision.

Maybe when I was a kid, I don't recall but as an adult no, I actually have not lit off a fire work, cant say I don't ever want to, but a lot of times its illegal or the apartment complex may try to evict if you do, so ends up not being worth the risk.

Could try to go over to the park to light one, but that also may be illegal.

I did once on New Year's Eve. It was a Roman candle and the balls landed on the roof. I was still living with my parents at the time. Luckily the house didn't set on fire.

I was deathly afraid of fire for most of my life so the answer for me is no (it's also the reason my parents never had to worry about me taking up smoking).