tonight we were supposed to do a picnic at the park thing and watch fireworks with twiddle thumbs's family over in la puente. so i was all busy making a vegan potato bean pasta salad thing. only, the picnic wasn't tonight. twiddle thumbs misled me. i hurry to make dinner and rush over there just to eat a little bit and put the rest in the fridge and go to the park. we sit in the bleachers for an hour and then the show begins. first they give the lame intros about how this is the best fireworks show in the state and i tell twiddle thumbs that it's probably not even the best show in the 626 area code. then when they actually light the fireworks, they ruin it by providing a crap soundtrack. they play all sorts of horrible things of songs and soundbites of american history for us stupid folks. thanks man but i don't need the history lesson. they started with the declaration of independence and went all the way up to w. they really ruined it with sound bytes from him. the fireworks weren't that good. i had to entertain myself by making fun of everything going on and i started to wonder why of a lot of things. why do we celebrate the date the document was drawn up and not the date that all the signatures were completed or the day that america was officially recognized as its own sovereign nation? because that was years later and we are like teenagers, we want to be older than we really are.