Unfortunately indeed

There's a whole timeline going on there! Pre 2018 I realllly wanted fireworks, but we were too rural to ever get them, save for occasionally every few years they'd do a rural show in our area and do fireworks. 2018 and 2019 I was too young to go myself, and nobody would take me. 2020 they replaced it with a bloody "three day food and wine tasting festival". 2021 I came down with COVID and was too tired and unwell to go anywhere. 2022 I finally saw fireworks, but I went to a bad spot in St Kilda where the city ones were obstructed. But people set their own ones off on the beach so it wasn't a net negative

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2023 I finally saw the proper ones. I watched from Williamstown. But someone nearly blew everyone on the beach up with their stupid illegal fireworks. They came shooting right at me. Then everyone was just getting really stupid and it felt like it was about to devolve into a riot or something so I bailed. I skipped dinner though so eventually started feeling sick, but only pubs were still open. And they were all packed to the rafters, so I wasn't daring, if they'd even let me in (felt more like a drinking pub and after-party, not really an eating pub). I ended up getting stale arse wraps from 7 eleven and waiting about 45 mins on average between each train I had to catch. And I was feeling sick the whole night

I haven't actually been puked on yet, but it feels like an inevitability on a train full of drunk people at 1am. I was once on a night train where someone puked opposite me. Pretty sure that was just a normal Friday night though