Pride...

Or a crazy waste of taxpayer money?!?  A week or two ago, the guys were over for gaming, and we all heard a ton of sirens...  It sounded like half of the town must be going up in flames...  Luckily, Clark and I have been through this before and knew not to be worried...  It is only because one of the sports teams won a major game...  Last night, when I was about to put Boogie to bed, it happened again...  Boogie looked so sad...  He said, "I'm tired, and the sirens are too loud...  It's too scary, so I don't want to be alone in my room."  To show him that it was nothing scary, I brought him downstairs and we waited for the crazy parade to weave its way down our street...  Of course, this would be the one time that they skip our street!  We did hear them on the next street over, though, and I took a "video" (though it's so dark that it's pretty much only a sound recording)... 

Yeah...  I definitely feel like I live in Texas sometimes...  For goodness sake, why do they have to go through the entire town from about 8pm to 9:30pm with sirens, horns, and cheering people?!?  It's not that I am not proud of our sports teams or anything, but I think that it is a crazy waste to spend the extra money for the bus driver and the gas for both the school bus and the fire trucks (our neighbor tole me they had FIVE of them out last night)...  Geesh...  Later days...