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Recently, my girlfriend and I were driving to a wedding in Boliver, MO, the city that she grew up in. It is about two hours from where I live and I had never been there. We were slightly behind schedule but she was calming my nerves by giving me turn by turn directions.
        Thirty minutes into the drive she pointed to a billboard and said, "That's our exit." She is so funny. The billboard was an advertisement for a fireworks warehouse. I laughed to myself a little bit and then started thinking about all of the fireworks stands in the world. They are all over the place in America. Out in the middle of nowhere exit after exit and sometimes multiple in the same exit.
        It baffles me because everywhere I have ever lived permits the firing of recreational explosives for only two days out of the year, New Year's Eve and Fourth of July. I have so many questions about fireworks stores and since my girlfriend made that joke I can't stop thinking about them.
        Do these fireworks stands really pay their mortgages by their sales for these two dates? I hardly think so. How are the stores so close to each other? Why is it that whenever there are two stores next to each other that there is always just one car parked out front? Why is that one car always a Chevy Malibu? How far away do employees have to walk to go on smoke breaks? Will another company ever challenge the branding supremacy of Black Cat? How can they offer such incredible deals? Buy 1 Get 10 Free!!
        Twelve miles into my musing, my girlfriend asked a rather confusing question, "Are we still on 71?" "As far as I know," I replied. She had broken my concentration. I was trying to get back to my thoughts when she asked if I had taken the exit she told me to. "You never said anything. What exit?" I replied firmly. "The one with the fireworks stand," she replied rightly.