Bomb? or Confetti Explosion?
My girls and I spent Tuesday in Rapid City. We had a fun girls day out (but the pedicures were expensive!!) We drove up to the shopping area close to Sam’s Club. Every entrance to the parking lot to Sam’s was blocked by an emergency or law enforcement vehicle of some kind. There were fire trucks, ambulances, police, news stations, & flashing lights all over. Shoppers were lined up along the store front, not able to go to their cars with their purchases. The City of Rapid City Facebook page said there was an unidentified object in the parking lot, suspiciously bomb-like. Well, that’s scary, good thing they checked it out! Later on, it was reported that the suspicious object was possibly a smoke/confetti bomb. LOL!!! Seriously. But the story gets better!
Yesterday my daughter Kiana went to work at the little store in Spearfish. She heard another side of the story. An elderly couple owns around 3000 sheep. (Yes, that’s three zeroes behind the 3!) Next week the shearing crew is coming to shear sheep. When the shearing crew comes, you feed them, and you feed them well. A friend to the elderly couple took her 5 children and went to Sams to buy the food for shearing day. She drove a borrowed vehicle. Just as she was parking she saw a piece of trash on the ground, and drove over it. She went inside and proceeded with her shopping. Another shopper saw this thing that had been driven over in the parking lot close to or under this vehicle. “Oh no, that looks like an explosive device!!” And so the fire trucks, police, rescue, ambulance, and bomb squad all arrived on the scene, the whole place went into lock-down, because “Help! there’s a bomb!” The owner to the vehicle started getting phone calls from the police demanding to know why she had put an explosive device in the car.
Next time I think I have a bomb in my life, I think I should check again. Maybe it’s just a confetti bomb. Maybe I could actually diffuse it and dance in the confetti shower. Maybe instead of calling in all the emergency responders I could take it in my hands, light the fuse and have a party! Let’s make a party out of our “bombs”, should we?
Like a filthy dirty house and company is coming. (Have fun with the company.)
Like grass that is half-mowed and the mower kicks the bucket. (Go have some lemonade and sit in the grass - take your pick, the long grass or the short grass!)
Like a day with terrible much to do, and I have a headache. (Have a nap.)
Like a pile of dishes and there is suddenly no water. (This happened today. A good excuse to get out of the kitchen!)
I think it wouldn’t take nearly as much energy to enjoy the mess of a confetti bomb as it would to keep a real true bomb from detonating. Hey, maybe we can even work magic and actually turn real bombs into confetti bombs. That would end all the wars tomorrow. And both sides could have fun too. Now that is a great idea. If someone drops a bomb on your head, pretend it’s just a confetti bomb. Ka - BOOM!!!
