No thank you, I won't need an early morning wake up call ....

Imagine you are enjoying a most wonderful deep Sllleeeeeep, snuggled down under your duvet, after all it is 3 a.m. in the morning, where else should you be?

All of a sudden there are the most awful explosions going on ⚡️around you, bellowing into your consciousness; as if you have been transported into a war zone or is it Fuego ⚡️?  You leap out of bed without a thought legs flying in the air, thankfully gravity places your feet onto the floor mat by your bed! Your legs take you straight to the window to see what on earth is happening. YES YOU ARE AWAKE - this is not a dream ......

You see ⚡️

Rockets zooming into the early morning sky, vivid coloured blinding streaks light up the sky.

You hear ⚡️

Shrill sounds that pierce your eardrums, as loud as gun fire & thunderbolts in one; they erratically boom out fearful crackling noises making you tremble and shake until

 

....  You realise that silly me!  WELL OF COURSE, it must be someones birthday!

These sights & sounds are frequent, they mark the new day of 'just another' mad fool family 'reminding each other a significant date has arrived & of course we must share this day with the community' - 

- How best to do that?

'Yeah let's blast them out of bed, disturb their peace, make them know we 're happy !!!!'

Next there's an enormous racket of utterly un-melodious pounding music pumping out into the early morning air with trumpet blasts, then peeping whistles making it unthinkable to hope for sleep that wonderful blissful sleep you were in the middle of!!! 

Plus - the dogs have been set off! Even though they need no trigger ( barking dogs seem to be the order of the Day & Night!)

Absolute noise pollution at its worse level!

What does the scripture say 'return evil for evil to no man' but thoughts of reprisal rear up in the mind. ⚡️ Along with that unchristian thinking that has to be addressed you realise you have to accept the inevitable 'I will just have to settle down with this thumping headache for the rest of the day; this is a major monster pounder that has developed from nowhere'. 

I commiserate with myself that only two or three of my neighbors can afford such an extravagant way of celebrating their birthdays,  ⚡️ as we have already had more than our share over the last months maybe this one will be the last for a while; but then I recall how these same joyous sounds will be disturbing me all over again very soon for three full days during the Christmas celebrations and then on another three at New Year.  

Incredible!! Central America is soooo poor. Perhaps it's because they set  ⚡️ fire  to their money ⚡️

Jointly written - anonymously