It IS heart-breaking and terribly sad. Some people are the pits while others live it. Thanksgiving sounds like a v. depressing holyday all round.

Thank the effing stars for the Bah Humbug.
(The guy who burns rubber down our 25mph child-strewn squirrel-infested kitty-laden block every night at 9:57pm and sometimes tosses fireworks into our gutters needs to buy me ten walking crapping penguin toys. And then he needs to have a painful, eventually fatal, heart attack.)

Thank you; I'd forgotten what the city is like. Here in Hell's Outhouse, Virginia we would feed most of these fucks to the bears, who are uncharacteristically restless right now. I'd read elsewhere that Conservative Turdlicans are also getting rammy. Maybe you're dealing with a few of those? To paraphrase the Big Dickhead, may they all go fuck themselves.

Note to Jessica:

It has been suggested that the law enforcement solution to that rubber burning fireworks goon is to find out where he lives, then burn his car.

Not a suggestion... that would be inappropriate. It's just a fantasy(?) I've heard from guys with guns and the power of arrest.