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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Don’t play with Meccano Fire kids…To be filed under the heading “It seemed like a good idea at the time”
Back when I was a young whipper-snapper (about 10-ish) my best mate and I decided that the best way to liven up a dull afternoon was to set fire to bits of plastic Meccano. As anyone who as ever tried this knows, it burns very well and drips globules of burning plastic with a nice fizzing sound :O)
Any-hoo… best mate decides it would be good to spice things up a bit by waving the burning Meccano around in the air. Due to a slight trajectory miscalculation he ends up spraying fire in my general direction. I feel a slight tingling sensation on my right arm and look down to see a few inches of my flesh ablaze with burning plastic. Fucksocks! Cue me hopping around like a loon trying to rub the molten plastic from my arm… and taking a good few layers of skin with it at the time.
Being the independent sort of chap that I am (and fearing a good kicking for burning stuff without a permit) I didn’t tell my parents any of this. I just slapped on loads of Savlon, stuck a big plaster over the burn and wore long-sleeved shirts for a while !!
For years I had a weird pinkish scar (about 4 inches long, apologies for length) that would never tan ! It’s all healed now.. as though you care….>sobsob<
(, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 14:59, Reply)
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