On this hot day and my daughter and grandchildren being in from Texas I thought it would be nice if we joined my son and his family to watch the Merrillville Indiana 4th parade. We picked a nice shady spot along the route and waited for the parade to pass. What a joke. What parade.
First came the fire engines and other rescue vehicles, of course with the sirens blaring. This was ear shattering for about 20 minutes. Then there was a 15 minute lag until the next wave of whatever came by. Oh yes it was all of the elected officials from the county, throwing candy and smiling from ear to ear. Who was who no name tags and if you were not personal friends of their how would you know who was who. The entire parade contained fire engines, two marching bands, politicians, about 15 trucks and vans from some auto glass shop, one float (if that's what you want to call it), about 10 Shriners, 20 corvettes from the Indiana Corvette Club, a few churches and in conclusion a police car to announce the end of the parade. There was no parade control to keep the people from being run over by the parade cars as they rushed to gather candy and of course the elected officials and the helpers did nothing to tell the people to get back. Not a good time at all. Next year we will go to the Crown Point parade.
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