In the spirit of Thanksgiving, last night while giggling in the aisles of Wal-mart I realized how I am grateful for my mostly boring life. When you lead a boring life, nights like last night make my month. What started as a burning of our poorly designed pinewood derby car named "Serial Killer" in a charcoal grill ended in a lawn fire that nearly burnt some bodies and the entire neighborhood down.
I have some helpful tips if you start a Thanksgiving Day turkey fire. Take notes. This post has the potential of saving your life.
- Gas and fire do not mix. Thank you Wal-mart gas containers for teaching us this lesson a little too late.
- Water should not be poured on a gas/oil fire. A simple lesson we all know, but sometimes ignored under distress. Gas fires escalate fast when water is poured on them.
- It takes a lot of baking soda to put out a fire of that size.
- A fire extinguisher does a great job of putting out fires. Buy One. A much needed thanks needs to go out to my visiting teacher for having an extinguisher on hand.
- People will not hesitate to call the fire department if they see suspicious flames. They will however stay safely inside their house and not ask if everything is under control before calling the fire department.
- Gossip spreads faster than fire in LDS singles wards. Love it.
- Life is good. Uncontrollably funny and good.
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