Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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I thought I was so coolbecause as a student I could light matches on my front teeth. Hold a Lucifer to your tooth, quick flick of the wrist: ooooh! fire! Looks great. Women swoon*
However, this great trick doesn't work so well when the match is a bit old and the sulphurous tip a bit soggy. On one occasion I did this in the pub and the tip ignited but at the same time lost its tenuous grip on the wooden shaft. It flew in a lovely parabola and landed down the neck of my friend's shirt. He leapt up and started jigging around like a Morris dancer on amphetamines. How we laughed at his plight.
The moral? If you set fire to someone, don't ask them some years later to be Best Man at your wedding, because it's bound to come up in the speeches and your parents won't approve.
* not actually true. May work with substantially better-looking men though.
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Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 13:35,
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