Friday, October 23, 2015

Another Blow Up

As a child, I blew a lot of things up. I even had a reputation with the firefighters for a while! This experience was one of my weirdest...
I was three years old at the time when I was supposed to be sleeping in my room. I couldn't fall asleep so I slowly snuck past my parent's room and started to explore. I snuck past various rooms until I stopped at the kitchen to get a banana from the counter. The stove was on since my mom was making tea for herself and when I reached, I managed to push paper towel roles on the stove. I finally grabbed the banana and ran up to my room, leaving the fast increasing fire to burn. Immediately after, the fire alarms went off and my parents rushed down to investigate. Since I had done something remarkably similar about a year ago, my parents knew that I was the one who had done it. They called the fire department and we had to get out of the house until they arrived. When they did, they struggled to put it out since I had ignited it on a high setting which made the flames really big. After about four hours, the fire was out but the flames had spread to the hallway and almost to the living room. My parents actually found it funny that I set the house on fire again and in the same way. Later on, after the ashes were cleaned up my parents gave me another lesson on how to be careful around stoves and put up new baby gates. Thankfully I didn't do it again.
Lesson: Make sure you have a lot of baby gates around the kitchen or put bananas in a reachable place for children so they don't have to set your house on fire.

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