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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kind of burning - more exploding, reallyI got home from a long drive home from work one day hungry, tired and in dire need of comfort food.
In our house we have an electric cooker and the hob takes a minute to warm up to full strength so I thought, in my tired and hungry way, that turning the hob on for a bit to warm up before I made beans on toast might be a good idea. I turned the hob on full (to make it warm up faster, right?) and sat myself down in front of the TV to wait for it to warm up.
Unfortunatly for me, the programme on TV was Ready Steady Cook and they were making Chicken Kiev - which made me want garlicky chicken goodness.
After a few minutes, I wandered back into the kitchen, got some mini kievs out of the freezer (I was tired/hungry and could't be bothered to make kievs - why bother? there were perfectly good 'additive-enhanced' kiev substitutes in the freezer!), put them in the oven, got a plate out of the cupboard and put it on top of the oven and went back to vegging in front of the box.
A minute or so later there was a very loud 'SMASH' sound some the kitchen. I went to investigate...
...I'd put my plate on top of the hob I had been preheating and had forgotten about. The plate smashed. Bits of the plate went behind the freezer. Bits of hot dinner plate burnt a hole in the lino on my kitchen floor.
I wish I'd seen the explosion - at least then I would be able to say that the whole sorry event had been entertaining.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 22:55, Reply)
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