Kitchen Fire − 13 March, 2007
This morning AJ talked me into the most unhealthy breakfast option - a pop-tart. Personally I think they are gross but I was running short on time and I figured "what the hell", add a slice of orange and some grapes and Kaboom you have a semi-nutritional meal.
Our toaster has seen better days, actually if you look at my Dandy-timeline you can see that I moved to New York in July...of 1992! Well the toaster was one of the first purchases me and mom made that July. Yikes!
I put the pop-tart inside the dying monster and turned around in my "cozy" kitchen to clean up Jeri's tank.
I started to smell the sweetness of the pop-tart...
I didn't hear the POP sound
Something started to smell funny in a burning kinda way
I turned around and...
"Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!"
The freaking toaster is on fire! The flames were licking my cabinet.
The first thing that I did was unplug the damn death trap and then tuned around and filled a glass with some tap water an poured it all over the fire.
Fire out! Thank you God! I don't have renter's insurance not that's what was on my mind. This was yet just another time an angel was looking out for me.
The irony in this is that me and AJ designed a poster for his school contest and the topic was "Preventing Kitchen Fires". Of course when I needed to know the details all I could think of was the design and not the content - oh boi. AJ said "Mom, I know what I am going to draw next year for that poster contest!"
Needless to say I didn't need coffee after this, but a cosmo would have been nice - kidding ;-)
Our toaster has seen better days, actually if you look at my Dandy-timeline you can see that I moved to New York in July...of 1992! Well the toaster was one of the first purchases me and mom made that July. Yikes!
I put the pop-tart inside the dying monster and turned around in my "cozy" kitchen to clean up Jeri's tank.
I started to smell the sweetness of the pop-tart...
I didn't hear the POP sound
Something started to smell funny in a burning kinda way
I turned around and...
"Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!" "Oh SHIT!"
The freaking toaster is on fire! The flames were licking my cabinet.
The first thing that I did was unplug the damn death trap and then tuned around and filled a glass with some tap water an poured it all over the fire.
Fire out! Thank you God! I don't have renter's insurance not that's what was on my mind. This was yet just another time an angel was looking out for me.
The irony in this is that me and AJ designed a poster for his school contest and the topic was "Preventing Kitchen Fires". Of course when I needed to know the details all I could think of was the design and not the content - oh boi. AJ said "Mom, I know what I am going to draw next year for that poster contest!"
Needless to say I didn't need coffee after this, but a cosmo would have been nice - kidding ;-)
Comments:
pepero (March 13, 2007. 10:00pm)
omg! i've never heard of a toaster fire started by a *pop-tart*. that's crazy. good thing you were still in the kitchen. you *do* have a guardian angel looking over you.
vision024 (March 13, 2007. 10:02pm)
Sweetie - my life is never boring - always a fire to put out he-he
pepero (March 13, 2007. 10:05pm)
at least you have a good sense of humor. ;-)
vision024 (March 13, 2007. 10:42pm)
BTW AJ ended up eating cereal and he wasn't happy about it either - ;-)
edunn (March 14, 2007. 01:34am)
I can't believe it took off and actually started on fire! Holy Crap! I am glad everyone is A-OK AJ's mom! How is Jeri?
pepero (March 14, 2007. 04:43pm)
i just had a bowl of trader joe's mixed berry granola cereal but eversince you mentioned pop-tarts, i can't seem to get it out of my mind. i haven't had any since i was a kid and that was a long time ago. i think i'll go buy some today. ;-)
edunn (March 14, 2007. 06:01pm)
I recommend the cinammon flavored ones! Sinfully delicious!
vision024 (March 14, 2007. 06:17pm)
The one that almost burnt my kitchen down was hot chocolate flavored