One of my friends wondered - as to why the festival of light is confused with the festival of sound. I agree wholeheartedly with him. Now, dont get me wrong - I love diwali, who doesnt? The lights, the sweets, the merriment and most importantly - some days off from work. I might as well add festival bonuses too while I’m at the subject. The only thing that I dont like about it is - yes, the noise.
Some of my married friends say that their kids love bursting crackers so therefore cannot completely opt for a noise-less diwali. Good point there. We as kids too loved all the magical fireworks so naturally I can understand their, i.e., the kid’s point of view.
What I’m not down with is the totally inconsiderate cracker-bursting spree thats rampant on the streets, localities and almost everywhere one walks past by. Like last night when we went out to buy some sweets, people were bursting crackers right in the middle of the highway as well in the market.
One fool of a kid burst a particularly loud cracker (that one’s called a chocolate bomb here - I dont what its called in your city) right in front of our moving car - we had to hit the brake all of a sudden and ended up swerving the car a bit. Thankfully, the street was empty or else there’d have been an accident. Stupid, idiotic kids who dont have anything better to do.
Then, when we finally reached the market, I opened the door to get out and BANG! goes a cracker right at my feet. I get a near-heart attack and end up cursing the kid with the small brain who was responsible.
Why I’m talking about this now is because when a friend of mine wrote about this same topic in her blog a few days back, I didnt really think much about it. I was more like - well, if people want to burst crackers, what’s stopping them… I’ll have wool in my ear anyways - But after yesterday, I feel strongly about people at least being responsible for supervising kids bursting crackers.
Besides the rant, happy diwali to everyone. Hope you dont get assailed by treacherous crackers out of the blue and may you not have to visit an ENT doctor the day after too.
Happy Diwali.
The crackers bursting beneath your legs makes it all the more exciting, if you ask me.
More reason to stay at home, I guess
Happy diwali to you too!
Totally! Crackers should be Nationally banned. Adds to the pollution in every form. Kids should be given only 2 sticks of’phooljhari’and that’s it! And each desperate family can do one glamorous fire-work in the sky. That still adds a lot, but might prevent some gloomy faces in the festivity time.
btw, chocolate bombs are called atom bombs in Pune.
Woah, am so scared!
Atom bomb??? My left eye’s twitching at the very word…
Totally right - 2 sticks of phooljhari ought to do the trick.
I can visualize the children bubbling over with joy on bursting crackers, but then they are not the ones who get heart attacks!
There is atom bomb in Pune, let me spread the news
Right on. These children! They get to do whatever they want…
Atom bomb sounds way more dangerous than chocolate bomb, dont it?
totally with u on this … i was scared to get out of house on diwali day, just coz i was scared of crackers busting under my bike … ohhh m g
btw … did u check the possibility of those kids being influenced by any of ur foes
I liked the extra hhh on the omg
Btw, I cannot comment on your blog again, Sandeep. The moment I submit my comment, it clears the comment field and a message says - please leave a comment.
Its driving me nuts!