I hate this friggin' "holiday"

Why did they have to have the damn fireworks at the City Center? Why couldn't they have them at the park like usual? Goddamit. It's not bad enough that it's "New Year's," this bogus annual celebration of the date changing from one day to the next, marking another year gone and wasted. Nooo... there had to be about a hundred morons standing in the middle of the road, which was also blocked by a police car, all of these idiots standing around, oohing and aahing at the fireworks and cheering, hugging and kissing their loved ones, blowing irritating noisemakers obsessively and yelling "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!" as obnoxiously as possible while wearing the stupidest hats they could find. And all of thise at midnight, minutes after I got out of work and was forced to wait... and wait... and wait... for the stupid friggin' fireworks to get the hell over with so these people would go away and I could go home. Grrr.

I hate New Year's already, but I tell you, there's no worse way to spend it than in a crowd of celebrating people, rubbing their happiness in your face in an explosion of showy, obnoxious glee. I had all I could do not to break down crying as I waiting for the whole debacle to get the hell over with.