Not sad Susie -it can be a laugh a minute!
I'm afraid i'm one of those who goes Ohhhh! and Ahhhh! every time she sees fireworks -now that IS sad! In Italy it's only on New Year's Eve -always keep my cats in to be safe...
Remember once having read some anthropological studies about how Latin peoples in particular use fireworks as a provocation to their neighbours -there is great pride in having the biggest and best display to be seen from one village to the next...typical male thing (re:mine is bigger than yours and therefore better!) a sort of ostentation of strength if you like.
They show wealth and power and therefore in troubled times are a way of saying "we are alright" . Perhaps that's why there are more and more occasions when they are being used nowadays -sort of sticking two fingers up at adversity!
