It's official, I'm a grumpy old man

I'm 74, and I've been a grumpy old man for at least ten years. My pet peeve is fireworks. I don't mind people blowing them off. They are legal here for the week before the 4th of July and the 4th itself. They not to be shot off after 10 PM during the week before and 12 PM on the fourth. The idiots around here do it until midnight (or after) the week before and 2 AM on the 4th. Sorry but that irritates me.

When I was a kid one of my jobs was cutting the grass, well there was always piles of crap from next doors dog so I would get the shovel and fling it back where it belonged, on their driveway, walkway and sometimes their cars. One day my dad asked what I was doing, I told him and he just smiled and walked away. after a couple of times doing that, the dog stopped crapping in our yard, nothing was ever said!
Sounds like a great dad. That made me smile.