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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When I was in student digs...we once had a war of washing up nerves with a flatmate who refused to do washing up. All the roasting dishes and trays were in the festering pile of unwashed equipment next to the sink, so Nick decided to improvise a roasting dish by using a sheet of aluminium foil, and folding up the edges.
He then proceeded to use this to cook some lamb in the electric oven.
Unfortunately, the 'tray' leaked lamb fat into the bottom of the oven, where it caught fire.
Nick and Keith panicked, and started filling a washing up bowl with water to pour into the oven. As the only sober person in the house, I felt it was my duty to turn off the electricity from the fuse box; and luckily I succeeded just before they poured several litres of water into the electric oven.
The house smelled of kebabby lamb fat for months, and was finally only expelled by the smell of Nick's Apple Brandy vomit.
Aaah, those were the days.
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