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 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:10 pm
So I was in a fire yesterday in the lab where I volunteer (read my journal for the story of how it was started.) It was very traumatic. The fire itself wasn't too bad, but the smoke was awful, and since it was rubber that was burning it stank a lot and it made my nose, throat and eyes sting.
So now I'm thinking a lot about my own mortality and disasters (the fire wasn't that bad, almost nothing was damaged but the microwave and a pair of gloves, but I started thinking about how much worse it could have been.)
So either discuss bad things that have happened to you, or nearly happened, or events that made you reevaluate your life. Or just give me sympathy.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:17 pm
I almost blew up me and my friend with a bottle of propane.
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Childhood Dreams Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:51 pm
Childhood Dreams I almost blew up me and my friend with a bottle of propane. Oh crap... How'd you do that?! eek
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:10 pm
eek Wow, um...
...The worst I've ever done was trying to burn the edges of my Calligraphy project (we had to write 72 lines of medieval/gothic calligraphy), and accidentally set my right hand entirely on fire. It didn't hurt until after I doused the flames, though. I think a part of me was intrigued by the fact that for a few moments I was wearing a glove made of fire. (This could be because I'm a Sagittarius in sun AND moon sign, and a Leo in ascendants. I've got quite a bit of fire in me.)
But...seriously. Wow. I feel for you, that would've totally scared the hell out of me.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:32 am
I've almost set my kitchen on fire with a bag of popcorn if that counts for anything. I had a new microwave, and wasn't used to the settings, so I put the popcorn in, and went downstairs for a few minutes. Came upstairs, my microwave was like hell inside. I freaked out, grabbed the popcorn, realised by hand was then flaming, dropped the popcorn and almost caught the floor on fire, grabbed the popcorn, burnt my hand again, and threw it outside into the snow where it sizzled innocently on my back porch. D:
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:22 am
Amyane I've almost set my kitchen on fire with a bag of popcorn if that counts for anything. I had a new microwave, and wasn't used to the settings, so I put the popcorn in, and went downstairs for a few minutes. Came upstairs, my microwave was like hell inside. I freaked out, grabbed the popcorn, realised by hand was then flaming, dropped the popcorn and almost caught the floor on fire, grabbed the popcorn, burnt my hand again, and threw it outside into the snow where it sizzled innocently on my back porch. D: I'm sorry, but that's actually kinda funny. I can see it being really scary at hte time, but still...
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:16 pm
Amyane I've almost set my kitchen on fire with a bag of popcorn if that counts for anything. I had a new microwave, and wasn't used to the settings, so I put the popcorn in, and went downstairs for a few minutes. Came upstairs, my microwave was like hell inside. I freaked out, grabbed the popcorn, realised by hand was then flaming, dropped the popcorn and almost caught the floor on fire, grabbed the popcorn, burnt my hand again, and threw it outside into the snow where it sizzled innocently on my back porch. D: Wow.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:30 am
WellThen Amyane I've almost set my kitchen on fire with a bag of popcorn if that counts for anything. I had a new microwave, and wasn't used to the settings, so I put the popcorn in, and went downstairs for a few minutes. Came upstairs, my microwave was like hell inside. I freaked out, grabbed the popcorn, realised by hand was then flaming, dropped the popcorn and almost caught the floor on fire, grabbed the popcorn, burnt my hand again, and threw it outside into the snow where it sizzled innocently on my back porch. D: I'm sorry, but that's actually kinda funny. I can see it being really scary at hte time, but still... No, it was funny. I was laughing hysterically at myself the whole time. rofl
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:40 pm
I think about my life and mortality on a constant basis, whever I see people die in movies (sort of), whenever I look up at the night sky, when I'm lying in bed trying to get to sleep. These are just sometimes. But usually I always come to the same conclusion, that I am me and that in my life I must live for the good of myself and others and take care to always be... um... I lost my word ^^;
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:37 am
The fire alarm is our friend at my house. My mother once put a hot dog on to boil, and forgot about it until all the water had boiled off and the dog was flaming in the pan. That got thrown in the sink.
Another time, My brother put a poptart in the toaster, and the toaster didn't pop it back up. The flames from the poptart nearly caught the kitchen cabinets on fire but my dad got to it in time and threw that in the sink too.
Mostly it was annoying. The alarm is LOUD and hurts my ears, and the smoke is terrible to get out of the house.
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Childhood Dreams Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:37 pm
WellThen Childhood Dreams I almost blew up me and my friend with a bottle of propane. Oh crap... How'd you do that?! eek I just realized that I didn't reply to you... sorry! Like a month later. When I was little, the sides of my wagon came off, and I leaned in the back, used the puller-thing to steer, and my friend pushed from behind. WAGONCAR! Anyway, I hit a broken tv and almost knocked the bottle of propane that was on it down. It thunked upright, so we were lucky. ^^
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