Family Facepalm

[la_rainette]

Yesterday evening, rainette and family are eating dinner.

Rainette *hears a loud crack* : WOW! That sounded like... a gunshot? Someone's exhaust? FIREWORKS?
Husband: what?
Rainette: didn't you hear that?
Froglet and Tadpole *shake their heads*
Husband: you're hearing voices, m'dear.
Rainette: not voices, BANGS. And I HEARD IT, alright. I am not making this up!
Froglet: OH WOW LOOK! FIREWORKS! SO PRETTY!
Rainette: AH. SEE? I WAS RIGHT! FIREWORKS! Wait, what? Fireworks?
Husband: we didn't hear anything. What tells me you were hearing these precise fireworks?
Rainette: oh shut up, Husband.
Froglet *dreamy voice*: wow, so pretty!
Rainette: why fireworks, exactly? I mean, this is silly, it's NOVEMBER and it's so cold outside, why fireworks? Who'd have fireworks on November fif.... *MAJOR FACEPALM*


Happy belated Guy Fawkes Day, dear British friends. I hope you had a lot of fun (and fireworks).


Froglet: I still don't get it. Fireworks? They celebrate because a guy tried to BLOW UP THE PARLIAMENT? Who does that?

It was a long, long evening, let me tell you.

Comments

[travels_in_time]

I feel exactly the same as Froglet about Guy Fawkes Day.

[la_rainette]

You know, I sort of do too. My revolutionary days are over! :D

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

We may thank an Act of Parliament passed in 1606, the "Thankgsiving Act." It decreed an annual public celebration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Sure, it was repealed in 1859, but any excuse for a party, eh?

Forasmuch as almighty God hath in all ages shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his church, and in the protection of religious kings and states, and that no nation of the earth hath been blessed with greater benefit than this kingdom now enjoyeth, having the same true and free profession of the gospel under our most gracious sovereign lord King James, the most great learned and religious king that ever reigned therein, enriched with a most helpful and plentiful progeny proceeding out of his royal loins promising continuance of this happiness and profession to all posterity: the which many malignant and devilish papists, Jesuits, and seminary priests much envying and fearing, conspired most horribly, when the king's most excellent majesty, the queen, the prince, and the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, should have been assembled in the upper house of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the year of our lord 1605 suddenly to have blown up the said house with gunpowder, an invention so inhuman, barbarous and cruel, as the like was never before heard of.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

I saw your post! :) It's what reminded me of our family blunder, and that's why I posted this.

And yes indeed: any excuse for a party!

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Froglet: I still don't get it. Fireworks? They celebrate because a guy tried to BLOW UP THE PARLIAMENT? Who does that?
People who wish current parliament would get blown up >_>

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D I never even thought of that. I am past my revolutionary days, I am afraid, and Froglet hasn't yet reached hers.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

You're not raising your kids right if the concept of parliament blowing up seems a *bad* thing... ::giggle::

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

YOU'VE GOT A POINT. >.>