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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It's what carpets were made for.My friends and I liked to burn stuff. Especially around the time of Halloween and Bonfire Night.
We'd set out trick or treating on Halloween with our hollowed out turnips (we were to poor to afford Pumpkins) with candles in. And we'd trick or treat until we had enough money to buy bigger candles and boxes of matches. Then we'd spend the next week burning things such as Ice Pop wrappers and school books.
One afternoon we ended up in my house whilst my parents were out. And we had the great idea of setting the mother of all fires up in an ashtray in the front room.
Once the inferno was in full force I got a bit panicky and attempted to blow it out. Succeeding in merely blowing the burning pile out of the ashtray and onto the carpet. We managed to put it out quite quickly, but not soon enough to stop the damage and destroy sections of the carpet.
My parents were going through quite a hard time at the time and didn't notice the fact that the 3 piece suite was now almost in the middle of the living room and not against the wall anymore. They relaced the carpet not long after and I came clean. I thought they'd be pleased that I'd avoided burning the house down. How wrong I was......
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Evil Bastardo, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 15:14,
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