Fire in the Hole

Baby-less and feeling oddly like an empty-nester, I write what I meant to for the last week or so, but was too preoccupied with babies (and OK maybe I've read 4 Harry Potter books in the last 5 days) to tell you about.

So picture this: you are wrestling babies, and you are doing a good job of it because they are giggling and clamoring for your attention and chasing you around as you say, "I'm gonna get you!" in a really creepy voice which should probably scar a 1.5 year old and a 3 year old for life now that you think of it, and then you get tired.  Because baby-wrestling is a little exhausting.  They are just about the cutest 30-40 pound weights you ever lifted, though.

And the babies get distracted in the bathroom and decide they both want to brush their teeth at the same time with the same toothbrush and they start screaming at each other and you until you decide that no one can brush their teeth and then they are both screaming, so you try and pick them both up and hold them so that they still know that you love them.

But then in the middle of one of those moments where you think, "gosh darn it I really want of these, but not for a long, long time" you hear a strange zapping noise out by the pool.  And as you look outside you see smoke.  So you drop the babies and really look outside and you see flames.  And you realize there is a small electrical fire involving two extension chords and a broom in your back yard.

So being a twenty-year-old with really no guts when it comes to small disasters, you yell in your alarmed, but still rather calm voice, "Dad! Dad, there's a fire in the backyard by the pool, and it's an electrical fire."  And your father, who is much better than you at saving the day, does a bit of quick thinking and turns of all the electricity in the house and then puts the small fire out with the hose.

And you are left with this:

And two extension chords that are now useless that your hero-dad has already thrown away and you can't take a picture of.

And you think, "My life is awesome."






And also you google it and you learn that you can use baking soda or fire extinguishers to put out electrical fires.  But a lot of baking soda so you should probably get a fire extinguisher because they work on grease fires too.


The End.