Ok this is a bit of a long one so stick with me.
My mum and dad have a pub and they also have a house back in the village I grew up in that they rent out. Every year this little village has a fetival which is just an excuse for a massive 3 day piss up, this year me and my boyfriend were invited to go an stay with my parents in their house for the festival because the tennant had just moved out.

There was very little in the house just beds, sofa, chairs, firdge and a cooker but mum being very practical packed up the car and brough loads of stuff with her. Cut to the first morning in the house and mum has brought some yummy bacon with her from the pub and sets out to make bacon butties to set us up for a day of drinking.

I am in the living room setting up the garden table so we can eat and my other half is helping mum in the kitchen. It was at that point I hear the words "what is that funny smell?" followed by shrieks from my mum.

In her haste to unpack she had put a pile of tupperware boxes on top of the cooker. She had forgotten to remove them before starting to cook the bacon. The tupperware was now melting and dripping down through the grill onto the grill pan and catching fire. My boyfriend acted quickly as my mum went into a complete tizzy, he took off the boxes which meant the remains caught fire, threw a tea towel in the sink soaked it and put it on top of the cooker. Alas the stuff of the grill pan was still burning and now the tea towel was in danger of catching fire, the grill pan was dumped in the sink and both taps turned on.

My mum was going crazy saying dad was going to kill her at which point he emerged from the shower to thick clouds of toxic plastic smoke and asks "whats happened has there been an accident?" with in a heartbeat all three of us said "no".
When he saw the mess he burst out laughing and spent the rest of the day telling everyone how a trainned chef with her own restaurant nearly burn the house down making bacon sarnies.

I think the tea towel is still welded to the top of the cooker with molten plastic.
( flurokitty 3, 2, 1 lets jam! (+.[___]·:·), Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:49, Reply)