Unless it's near the 4th of July I always assume the things that sound like gunshots are gunshots, my DH always assumes its either a car backfiring or fireworks.

New Year's Steve is a great idea. He'd just go around on NYE dropping in on people to wish them a very happy new year. It'd be like Santa for grown ups.

Could also go with a New Year's Steve.

I would like a New Year's Steve. I'd feed him cookies and pie. I think we'd both find it soothing.

I would accept Steve Rogers, Stone Cold Steve Austin, or my Awesome Doctor(TM). Who is named Steve and seems like he would be fun to party with.

New Year's Steve sounds just right.

Where I lived post-college New Year's Eve fireworks WERE gunshots—idiots in Apartment City would fire their guns up at the sky! If you had to venture out at night, you carried something solid over your head as a shield.

I don't know how that can fit into Civil War, but it's got to be canon. ETA NYS, not gunshots as fireworks. Ah, yes, staying inside for fear of falling bullets - better than fear of actively getting shot at, I suppose, but still, do not like. So far I've been able to assume that anything that wasn't fireworks was duck hunters, although there was something that sounded like a frigging cannon last night (with no other fireworks type noises around it, just the train, so I don't know about that one)

Sitting in my living room, I can see my breath a little. Better leave myself a little extra time to scrape ice off the car this morning.

What are you doing, New Year's Steve?

What are you doing, New Year's Steve?

I'm poppin' your cork, baybee.

Wow. That sounded way funnier in my head...read in Chris Evans' voice.