what the guys who shoot fireworks go though on the 4th

[anarximis]

well i know its the 5th but i couldnt even touch a computer yesterday

ok umm i work in part for a company called rozzi's famous fireworks and it's really fun low pay but i get to blow stuff up its a fair trade to me plus it make people happy but this year takes the cake. so here is the back story one how I got into the fireworks business, my grandfather have been working for them for almost 50 year and i grow up with him setting up shows and not to lie and ask the owners of the company he is the best shooter out there. at a young age of 5 or 6 i started helping with little things til they started loading the fireworks, skip to the age 18 where in the great state of ohio you have to have a licences to shoot fireworks or to be an assistant shooter well i got the assistants licences to help my grandfather shoot and so i could help do more. now we are on to yesterday,with my grandfathers age and health the past 2 years it was to be his last show but this year we were a little short handed, are crew was normally 6 strong and we thought we were going to have 4 do to some paperwork problems and the 4 were going to be my grandfather, my mother, my uncle, and myself. well in the morning my mother couldnt come because she had a pain in her eyes so we were like ok lets just work our butts off and get this done as fast as we can because show time was 9:45 p.m. well around 3 my grandfather goes and sits in one of the trucks (i didnt see this by the way) well i turned around to go get something out of the truck and he was slumped of the wheel so i ran over to see what was wrong and he wouldnt wake up so we called 911 and they toke him to the hospital and rozzi's still wanted a show and so did the city in which we were and we only had 2 people because my mother was come to come help and then she seized and she was take to the hospital. we did finally get the show set up and we did shoot it on time and from what iam told i was good. they did keep my grandfather overnight and they are keeping him tonight and my mother was sent home yesterday but she was in no shape to do anything. but this is just a shout out the Q (my grandfather).

he is doing fine but the doc just wants to run some tests to make sure

this type of thing really makes you think doesnt it

[Joe Handley]

Dang man, hope everything gets better, but at least everybody is still on this side of the lawn!

[anarximis]

yeah something he asked me today was what do we do next year on the 4th because we have never done anything different so i think he is doing ok just over heated

[Joe Handley]

That's always a possiblity, just be happy you found him while he was still kicking.

[1930fordpickup]

Good to hear he is better.

[anarximis]

yeah iam very happy we got help in time, he and my grandmother raised me so he is kind of my dad i guess and i would like to keep him around as long as i can