Fireworks

I guess it doesn't work in Mom's neighborhood the way it works in every other neighborhood.  The kids and I went outside to throw their pop its and burn some sparklers.  John, the neighbor a few houses down sent up something that must have had fifty parachutes come out of it.  It was really cool.  And what it did was brought my two and one other neighbor boy down to his house to collect parachutes.
About that time I thought I should introduce myself to him and I did.  We discussed his generous nature in decorating for Christmas.  The man goes all out.  And apparently he does the same for the fourth.  He had several hundred dollars worth of fireworks.  He had a tote about 3/4 full of mortars. The littles were enjoying all he did with smoke bombs and what not.
I was doing laps to get my steps in and I came back around his house.  His wife and guests must not have known I was there but I could hear one of the women as plain as day tell Audrie to go ask her mom for pop its.  Now obviously Audrie asked if she could have some and the woman could have just said no.  I heard Audrie reply that she thought we were out.  So I called her and Connor back to our house.  The woman did not want extra kids around.  That was all right.  We had a nice view from our own section of the sidewalk.  We threw the rest of our pop its and did the sparklers. We shared a sparkler with Nathan because he had stood at John's house while the three girls there did some of their sparklers in which they had twelve boxes minimum.
Next thing I knew the girl who lives with John came to ask if we had one of their fireworks.  One was missing and it was there before the three kids came down.  I just looked at her and said no we haven't seen their firework.  Seriously.  The woman was right there when Connor and Audrie walked away.  And when Nathan scootered by I didn't see anything extra on him either.
I think she just didn't want to share their fireworks and definitely is not neighborly.  Good to know.  But John is a really nice guy.