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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Long time agoAt a friend's house and we were larking around with those lame indoor fireworks. Anyroad, I tell Tom that I know a trick with safty matches. Put match, head down on striking bit of box, flick and watch in slow-mo horror as the lit match traces a graceful arc across the room of Tom's mum's quite posh house, and lands directly in some pampas grass on the mantlepiece.
Woof. Dry pampas grass goes up like a bastard.
Later, after we'd finished bricking ourselves, we discover a small burnt circle on the painting that was on the wall behind the pampas.
I've been towing that secret around now for 17 odd years, feels great now.
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bowdie, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:35,
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