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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Meths is bad.I had a shitload of old reciepts, bank statements, etc, which I needed to get rid of.
Aha, I thought, why not burn them?
Security from fraud combined with firey fun!
They lit OK, but weren't burning very well, so I decided to pour some meths on them.
Fine, but they were still going, and the meths had caught fire.
Inside the bottle.
The *plastic* bottle. After a few seconds of "fuckin' hell I'm doomed, it's gonna blow!", I realised I could just screw the lid back on the bottle and cut off the oxygen.
Cue one very relieved me, with all hair and eyebrows intact.
Have also singed all the hair off my right arm when leaning over a fire, and once tried to light a gas-powered tea urn thing that promptly shot out a six-inch burst of flame at my hand.
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Labmonkey last thought about having another coffee on, Sat 5 Nov 2005, 15:22,
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