annoytement
Annoytement \An*noyt”ment\, n. [OF. anoiance, anuiance, escitement.]
1. The peculiar mix of annoyance and excitement at being woken up by fireworks at 10:30PM on a Wednesday.
For a private party, no less. It sorta annoys me to see public places hold private events. Merely for the fact that they’re in a public space that suddenly I can’t go to. Riverfront park, the shelby street bridge. I assume that the amount it costs to rent riverfront or the gateway bridge more than covers the cost of infrastructure to support closing it off — city costs, police, etc. I hope. Right?
When the poodles started going nuts and running around the bed at 10:30, we figured the Sounds had hit a home run. Then when it kept going, we thought they’d won the game. Then when it went on and on, I guessed they must have won the freakin’ minor league world series, much to the dogs’ chagrin. And we live 3 miles away. I can only imagine what it was like from your vantage.
Now you tell me it was some biz-pig party? I hope Metro charged them an assload of money…
So that’s what that was? I’m just under 5 miles away, and it was still loud enough to be noticeable, though I couldn’t tell for sure if it was fireworks, or … well it almost sounded like a much closer bout of scattered gunfire.