FIRE!

[trof]

Well, almost.
How about SMOKE! ?

I'm sitting here at the other end of the house from the kitchen. It's a beautiful day and all the doors and windows are open. I get a whiff of something cooking? Burning? Maybe the neighbor is grilling? I can see Miz t. working in the back yard, so she's not cooking anything.

The odor gets stronger, so I get up and walk through the house. As I get closer to the kitchen, it's worse. I round the corner and SMOKE IS ROLLING OUT OF THE KITCHEN! There's a big enamel pot on the stove and the bottom is glowing red. Holy shit!

I turned it off and grabbed some potholders, but the damn pot is WELDED to the electric burner. I try to unstick it and come away with the sides of the pot in my hands and the bottom is still stuck to the burner. Charred red beans spill down into the space below the burner.
What a freakin' MESS.

"Oh Honeeeee? Did you forget something?"
whew
Never a dull moment around here.
So much for tonight's red beans 'n rice.

[TheMightyFavog]

1. Ugh, I can imagine the sme..

At least it does not smell as bad as pot resin. :puke: :puke:

My roomie is doing res hits right now.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Time to buy a smoke detector!!!!

Guess it's pizza for dinner tonight.


You are lucky it wasn't worse than that.
You might have to buy a new burner for the stove.

[Dr.Phool]

5. Maybe thats how

ADT seems to always know when my wife is cooking!!!

[hfojvt]

3. one more story

showing the evils of yard work. Just say no to yard work - it is nothing but trouble.

[MuseRider]

4. That is going to be

fun to clean! I thought for a moment you were living somewhere close to me. The pasture burning is in full force and my eyes are running and it stinks! Ahhhhh, Kansas. Still, I would much rather have that than the mess you have to smell and clean up.

Red beans and rice, one of my all time favorites but not from under the burner. :cry: Sorry.

[trof]

6. The day gets more exciting. Snake.

Miz t. came in from yard work to tell me she just saw a snake. Black. I went out with the hoe. If it's a moccasin, it's goners, but not if it's a black racer or king.

Couldn't find it, but Miz t. says yard work is over for the day. She's sitting at her computer now, playing Spyder solitare, still wearing her "yard work" pith helmet.
I wish I had a digital camera.
;-)

[realisticphish]

7. Never yell fire

in a crowded lounge!


I had an experience where we were tearing out some walls in our house. Apparently, blind psychopathic dyslexic cavemen wired our house, so we were kind of wary about touching anything. But, we were near the bathroom, and there was a pipe in the wall. I touched the blade of the Sawzall against the pipe, and there was suddenly this huge pop, and sparks. The blade had welded to the pipe!

Apparently, the aforementioned psychopathic cavemen had GROUNDED THE WIRE ON THE PIPE :wtf: