Eek, Jess! Maybe don't burn your house down?
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 16, 2011 4:33:10 pm PDT #26704 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cass - Sep 16, 2011 4:38:56 pm PDT #26705 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So...anyone else's evening involve setting a toaster oven on fire? Just me then?
Not tonight.
I mean, it's happened before.
Clearly.
Fire extinguishers are good.
Everything okay, Jessica?
sarameg - Sep 16, 2011 4:43:45 pm PDT #26706 of 30001
So...anyone else's evening involve setting a toaster oven on fire?
My apartment-mate did that . In 1995. Slacker! I've told that story here, maybe?
Anyway, typical college student found appliance, didn't work right: spring mechanism was broken. We all knew this, so we'd watch the toaster. One of my roommates was a notorious flake. Add to that I was working in a family owned bagel shop, and they'd always send me home with as many dayolds as I wanted, so we always had bagels.
Tanya put a sesame seed bagel in the toaster and apparently got distracted. I start hearing an alarming popping sound from my room and smell smoke as the smoke alarm begins to blare. Run to the kitchen and Tanya is standing in front of a flaming toaster. Popping sound was sesame seeds exploding. Tanya grabs the FLOUR to throw and I screech at her NO!!! and knock her into the wall as I rush to the counter. I yank the plug from the wall, shove open the kitchen window and by the cord, lob the flaming toaster out onto the walk. Right at class change time, freaking a bunch of students out.
We became known as the Flaming Toaster Bomb apartment.
Cass - Sep 16, 2011 4:47:08 pm PDT #26707 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We became known as the Flaming Toaster Bomb apartment.
And *I* have a bad rep?
That is hilarious so long as no one was hurt.
sarameg - Sep 16, 2011 4:54:30 pm PDT #26708 of 30001
Well, Tanya's feelings were hurt when she procured us a new toaster and we forbade her to use it without supervision... but she'd burn dinner on a regular basis anyway. We kinda forbade her from using any open heat element.
And her dignity took a beating when I went out (with quite the audience) to retrieve the burnt out wreck because she was too embarrassed to. Of course I told them who was responsible.
sarameg - Sep 16, 2011 4:58:36 pm PDT #26709 of 30001
Oh, and that was the era of the common windows screensaver of a flying toaster. Yes, a parody was created and hacked into every windows box in the computer labs on campus (this was 1995, maybe half the campus relied on the labs for their computer needs.)
Liese S. - Sep 16, 2011 5:02:31 pm PDT #26710 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeesh, Jessica! Be safe! Yay for not being on fire!
Ha, I would totally be afraid of Flaming Toaster Bomb apartment.
Ok, I will try our (brand new) CVS tomorrow. Walgreens may have had it and I just didn't see it. IOdrugstoreN, Sinful polishes are on sale for a dollar. But I got distracted looking for the chafing gel and didn't notice if the crackles were on sale too.
Jessica - Sep 16, 2011 5:09:19 pm PDT #26711 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, everything's fine now. And my kitchen has never been cleaner since I had to move everything out of the way to wipe off the fire extinguisher stuff.
askye - Sep 16, 2011 5:11:30 pm PDT #26712 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Mom caught a toaster oven on fire once. It singed the wallpaper in the kitchen and the burn marked stayed there for a long time.
amyth - Sep 16, 2011 5:11:49 pm PDT #26713 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I set fire to a toaster oven at work once. It was pretty impressive how much fire you can make with an english muffin.
Hope everything's okay, Jess!
Now I want to go to CVS and see what's on sale.
In the ongoing battle with the fruit flies, there are still a squillion of them. I have put out vinegar traps, removed all organic matter from the house (or fridged/frozen it), taken out all trash, vacuumed, and even kept my apt. at a temperature that is (to me) intolerably frigid, because I heard that shortens their life cycle. DIE, TINY FLIES, DIE!
Yeah, everything's fine now.
Oh, well, good!