My cats mainly, but I also fucking hate fireworks for holidays unless they're a large community thing.

Random assholes in their backyard really ruin the holidays for me. Also, absolutely cannot abide fireworks for sporting events. It's such a dumb spectacle that seems to have picked up more since the 2010s or so.

I have sensitive ears. I don't hide from fireworks but really don't get why every celebration has to be so loud. Half of the time it's not even fireworks but those mini bombs teenagers throw around

Dog + Kiddo. Neither of them love it, plus I've always viewed it as an expensive way to litter.

Video games are more fun than fireworks. Video games with good friends doubly so.

I use to have that as teen after a "firework accident". It fade year after year, now it don't bother me anymore.

I'm staying with the in-laws. We've got the dogs in the house. Amazingly none of them care about fireworks.

We do have a toddler who had her night sleep interrupted by big bada-booms half the night. I was hoping to acclimatise her before her bedtime, but there were none to be seen then.

Hard to tell fireworks from gunfire around here, I have no desire to be clipped by an errant bullet. Also I enjoy feeling rested more than seeing fireworks for the 538th time in my life.

Given the local weather, there's typically barely anything of that sort around here.

The real problem is the 4th of July, in which there are chronic explosions going on almost a full month sandwiching that date. Just terrible as a light sleeper with oversensitive hearing.

In my pants.

Oh, FROM.

Because they happen after I go to bed. I see no benefit in staying up to watch fireworks IRL. My Animal Crossing island is 3 hours ahead of my IRL location, so I can get on the Nintendo at 9pm, enjoy fireworks with Isabelle and Tom Nook and my villagers, and then cut it off and go to sleep.

I don’t hide from them, I just don’t go out of my way to see them. I recently moved and my last neighborhood really did a fantastic show…. if you saw them from the parks around the lakes.

Everyone knows this so in order to get a “seat” in the parks you have to get there 4-6 hours in advance.

And then there is the traffic madness to deal with when they are over.

My family and I did it once. We paired with two other families and made a picnic out if it. It was a good time and absolutely not worth the effort.