Happy New Year!

[Mike Scott]

See you next year!!   

[aura of foreboding]

Happy New Year UMA!

[Mord]

Still over an hour and a half on the west coast. Happy New Year to all monsterkids out there. Stay alive.

[Monsters For Sale]

 
Happy New Year!

Southern California seems too windy for fireworks.  Hope the morons don't start any fires.

[Kidagain]

Happy New Year to everyone here,except you now who (spammers ).

[Flower]

Happy New Year to all .. may it be happy, healthy, prosperous and WITHOUT spammers.

[Mike Scott]

Hello UMA! Wow! I haven't posted on this board since back in 2018!

[Monsters For Sale]

The New Year blew in to Southern California on a cold Santa Ana wind.

The wind blew so strong that there were hardly any fireworks at midnight.  The temperature wasn't all that cold, mid-40's, but the wind just sliced right through you and felt much colder.

Strange, to have such a quiet New Year.  I live in an area that is easily 90% Asian immigrants, and they LOVE loud firecrackers.    It sounds like approaching war, sometimes.

My friend is a big bingo nut.  The fireworks are usually so loud outside the hall that they have to suspend calling numbers for about an hour on New Year's, Tet and the 4th of July.  For the first time she can recall, they did not have to do that.  She said there was hardy a pop heard inside.

So nice that I did not have to close up the house to avoid the stink of Sulphur around here.  Really, it gets that bad.

How is your holiday going?  Hope you aren't nursing a hangover.

[Mord]

Hello UMA! Wow! I haven't posted on this board since back in 2018!

Welcome back. You've always been the most lovable of all moderators.

[Mord]

Strange, to have such a quiet New Year.  I live in an area that is easily 90% Asian immigrants, and they LOVE loud firecrackers.    It sounds like approaching war, sometimes.

My friend is a big bingo nut.  The fireworks are usually so loud outside the hall that they have to suspend calling numbers for about an hour on New Year's, Tet and the 4th of July.  For the first time she can recall, they did not have to do that.  She said there was hardy a pop heard inside.

So nice that I did not have to close up the house to avoid the stink of Sulphur around here.  Really, it gets that bad.

I feel your pain, brother. I live in a mostly Hispanic community where fireworks are a way of life. I dread 4th of July. The "morons" (as you aptly referred to) start celebrating towards the end of May and finish sometime in August. It feels like living in Fallujah half the time. One time a group of kids decided to set up camp on my corner. I ran to my sprinkler controls. They came on right as they were lighting their first m80. I must have ruined half their arsenal. In the words of someone even older than me, "GET OFF MY LAWN, PUNKS!".

[Mike Scott]

How is your holiday going?  Hope you aren't nursing a hangover.

Nursing the flu. Stomach and intestinal! I guess I'm about over it, though.

[Monsters For Sale]

I feel your pain, brother.... 

I'm not complaining.  I really like my neighbors and my neighborhood.

My only beef is the fact that they don't do Halloween - at all.  I decorate, because I am me.  But I am the only one that does.  I got a total of 3 trick-or-treaters last year.  Non of them were Asian.

I'll keep trying.

[Mike Scott]

I got a total of 3 trick-or-treaters last year.

So . . . none of the kids in your neighborhood like free candy?

[Monsters For Sale]

So . . . none of the kids in your neighborhood like free candy?

Just not their holiday.


I used to work with a Vietnamese lady who told me about her first Halloween as a child in this country.

Her aunt asked her where she got the candy and she explained how she got it.  Her aunt got very angry with her and was so ashamed she nearly cried.  To think that their children had disgraced the family by going door-to-door begging for food!

It took a while to explain that it was an American custom that no one looked down on.  Still, she had to sneak out the next year and hide her candy, so her aunt wouldn't find out.

I wonder what traditions would puzzle me if I moved to Vietnam?

[marsattacks666]

Happy New Year!