Chantal - c'mon baby don't light the fire!
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:52 pm
Once, we went camping. OH lit the gas for hot water, and threw the spent match in the bin. We ate dinner. Only when OH went to get fresh water for washing up did I realise that spent match has ignited disgusting bin.
Me who is always calm. Me who can cope in a crisis. I ran round like legendary headless chicken, with a 3 year old and a 5 year old in tow screaming something incomprehensible along the lines of 'Oh dear, I think the tent is on fire and we're all going to die'.
OH returns to scenes of complete hysteria and calmly chucks huge pan of soaking-water (which was in the pan of floating excess baked beans) over the fire. It did put it out but for the remainder of the 2 weeks we were there, it slimed and multiplied its mutant bacteria with gay abandon until we smelt like something mixed between a sewage works and the worst poultry farm in existence.
Also ground sheet was happily encased in mould and general revoltingness.
Like you, all I can say is 'we didn't die, we didn't lose our precious belongings (photos were at home, obviously), and I learnt a valuable lesson. Never let OH light a match.
Hope you're feeling better chantal - if you're stuck for accommodation having cindered your own, we're only in Warwick so come on over!
Me who is always calm. Me who can cope in a crisis. I ran round like legendary headless chicken, with a 3 year old and a 5 year old in tow screaming something incomprehensible along the lines of 'Oh dear, I think the tent is on fire and we're all going to die'.
OH returns to scenes of complete hysteria and calmly chucks huge pan of soaking-water (which was in the pan of floating excess baked beans) over the fire. It did put it out but for the remainder of the 2 weeks we were there, it slimed and multiplied its mutant bacteria with gay abandon until we smelt like something mixed between a sewage works and the worst poultry farm in existence.
Also ground sheet was happily encased in mould and general revoltingness.
Like you, all I can say is 'we didn't die, we didn't lose our precious belongings (photos were at home, obviously), and I learnt a valuable lesson. Never let OH light a match.
Hope you're feeling better chantal - if you're stuck for accommodation having cindered your own, we're only in Warwick so come on over!
- shows true dedication!
