Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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Nearly very bad.A few years back, I was sharing a flat with a friend. We were having a quiet Friday night in, drinking beers and we ordered pizza.
Beer was drunk, pizza was eaten, Playstation was played. I noticed that Scott had been using the cardboard pizza box as an ashtray. He said he was being carefull, so that was ok. He fell asleep on the sofa, and I was in an armchair in that almost-asleep-but-not-quite state, doing the long blinks etc. I opened my eyes to find the room filled with smoke and the pizza box/ashtray smouldering nicely. As I sat there in a stupor it caught light before my eyes. I stamped it out, but not before it had scorched the carpet badly.
If I had been properly asleep and not noticed the box, Im certain we would both have been killed.
On a slightly lighter note, on Monday at work, I discovered an unusual hot sensation in my crotch area. I had put a 9v pp3 battery in the pocket of my boilersuit, which had shorted out on the coins, screws and other metal junk in there. It got a lot hotter than I expected it would.
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