The Home Fires
Cera, I’m dying over here about the fire ants! So you found out at an early age your mom was insane, eh? Lol
Barb, OMG! Steroids? LMAO! Personally I prefer my grass to grow slowly so I don’t have to mow 400 times a week like my obsessed neighbors!
Cera’s post reminded me of our own little insane adventure. I must have been in Junior High for this one. My mother and the neighbor had gone off for their nightly walk. My brother decided he was going to cook a hamburger all by himself. Instead of turning the burner off he turned it on full blast. Hamburger grease and excessive heat from a gas stove don’t mix. My sister and I walked in the front door from playing, saw that the kitchen was FILLED with thick black smoke and ran next door yelling all the way.
Side note to explain my neighbors. Very nice people with kids our age. The wife (who was walking with Mom) was slightly plump, red headed and full of freckles. (Think Mrs. Claus, the early years) The husband was/is/forever shall be the thin man. He couldn’t weigh 80 pounds soaking wet! He had basically no hair from birth and chain smoked. But he was always smiling. Never really spoke but would wave his skinny little arms off. They honestly made a cute though odd couple.
Back to the story. We ran to the neighbor’s house screaming the house was on fire. Chuck BURST through his screen door, arms flailing, carrying a spare pair of jeans he’s grabbed on the way out. I didn’t know he could move so fast! He gets through the kitchen, grabs the skillet (with the jeans) and throws it out the back door. Thankfully the grease hadn’t caught fire yet and was only seriously smoking.
My brother somehow had been sitting at the kitchen table oblivious to all the smoke reading who knows what. When the neighbor came flying through the kitchen frantically waving the pants in the air my poor brother though he was being attacked by a mad man. lol
A few minutes later my Mom and neighbor wife came home. We tried explaining what happened but they were stuck on the visual image of Neighbor Guy running through the yard with no pants on! Definitely a sight I will never forget. Lol
(Apologies that I can’t seem to write anything that isn’t half a novel)
Barb, OMG! Steroids? LMAO! Personally I prefer my grass to grow slowly so I don’t have to mow 400 times a week like my obsessed neighbors!
Cera’s post reminded me of our own little insane adventure. I must have been in Junior High for this one. My mother and the neighbor had gone off for their nightly walk. My brother decided he was going to cook a hamburger all by himself. Instead of turning the burner off he turned it on full blast. Hamburger grease and excessive heat from a gas stove don’t mix. My sister and I walked in the front door from playing, saw that the kitchen was FILLED with thick black smoke and ran next door yelling all the way.
Side note to explain my neighbors. Very nice people with kids our age. The wife (who was walking with Mom) was slightly plump, red headed and full of freckles. (Think Mrs. Claus, the early years) The husband was/is/forever shall be the thin man. He couldn’t weigh 80 pounds soaking wet! He had basically no hair from birth and chain smoked. But he was always smiling. Never really spoke but would wave his skinny little arms off. They honestly made a cute though odd couple.
Back to the story. We ran to the neighbor’s house screaming the house was on fire. Chuck BURST through his screen door, arms flailing, carrying a spare pair of jeans he’s grabbed on the way out. I didn’t know he could move so fast! He gets through the kitchen, grabs the skillet (with the jeans) and throws it out the back door. Thankfully the grease hadn’t caught fire yet and was only seriously smoking.
My brother somehow had been sitting at the kitchen table oblivious to all the smoke reading who knows what. When the neighbor came flying through the kitchen frantically waving the pants in the air my poor brother though he was being attacked by a mad man. lol
A few minutes later my Mom and neighbor wife came home. We tried explaining what happened but they were stuck on the visual image of Neighbor Guy running through the yard with no pants on! Definitely a sight I will never forget. Lol
(Apologies that I can’t seem to write anything that isn’t half a novel)
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