Have you ever started a fire?I went to sleep with candles burning - woke up to a circle of flame on the rug. Thought, "Tits. Better put the rug in the bath and turn the taps on." TIP: Don't put a burning rug into a fibre glass bath. I caused about £5000 of damage to the house and was coughing up smoky black phlegm for a few weeks. Can you beat that?
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rob, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 17:48)
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oh, yes even betterThis is another lighter based story, in fact it's the same lighter as last time. A cursed lighter perhaps? Anyway this lighter didn't work very well, and when you clicked the electric spark jobby, a distinct lack of flame was often the result. If you kind of half-cocked it, though, gas would come out but no spark and therefore definately no flame would result. In my attempts to determine the exact cause of my lighter's reluctance to do it's job properly, and in order to ascertain whether gas was being evolved i deployed it in this position, placed near my nostrils and inhaled vigerously . It was conclusively demonstrated that this was the case by a slip of my thumb, an electric spark, plenty of previously reluctant fire, burning nostril hair and a sort of startled yelp that greatly amused everyone at the dinner table.
I've since lost the lighter and have not set fire to any part of my anatomy since. coincedence? I think not.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 16:26, Reply)
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