Irony can be deadly

So...I've moved into my new apartment, which is complete with an electric stove w/ burners.

I was frying up some green tomatoes the other day and found that the burners get VERY hot. I set a smoke alarm off. No big deal, as I turned down the heat and disabled the smoke detector.

Well, apparently my neighbor both heard the alarm and smelled the smoke. So, being very good friends, she joshed me about it. She then went to cook her own meal. She isn't so lucky. She's browning some chicken when the oil starts to boil and then bursts into flames. All FOUR smoke detectors go off. She grabs the pan with a mitt and...takes it to the sink and pours water on it...

For those who don't know, this method of putting out a grease fire doesn't work that great, as it tends to make the grease fire EXPLODE (typically the results that one DOESN'T want when trying not to die). Fortunately, she managed to put out the fire and didn't get hurt (and didn't burn the entire apartment complex down).

She also knows both how to put out a grease fire and not to invoke the laws of karma.

*nods*

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What if there is a spoon?

or think you can forget about a thing called "Universal Laws of Karma"

Life's funny that way aint it?

Its like the gods have this twisted sense of humour and love to play with us mere mortals.

Im glad the flatemate didnt get torched in the process of getting some karmic payback! lol

Just goes to show you to be careful what you say, think or do cause the wind will carry it to those gods, and hooboy will they let you eat your words!

Allow me right now, to give those gods a sardonic smile, and give them the finger for all the times they made me the butt of their karmic joke.

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Shoot first..ask questions later!

*Flushes* Hate to admit it, but I probably would have tried flour too, but its a non-essential in my home, so we don't have any. Baking soda on the other hand has a multitude of uses, my fave is mixing it with vinegar and food coloring.

It would appear that you can use vinegar and baking soda for anything from clearing drains to cleaning skin injuries. I must say, I'd be a little concerned about getting the strength wrong for the disinfectant use, as I can picture people's legs dropping off after it's been applied to the knees and been left too long.

What you can do with baking soda and vinegar

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Vinegar/Baking soda/red food coloring makes great molten lava in a science fair volcano!

You need to put essence of brand new pink bedsheet in there. That is guaranteed to turn anything else a reddish colour after immersion in any kind of dampness. Works for me, anyway.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Even goddesses need somewhere to sleep. Kid's probably get extra credit for creativity :<3

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

My smartass remark about cooking is "Why get a cooking timer when you have a smoke alarm?"

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ThornGenX
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

A quote from the movie "Wall Street" 1987

I have a cooking timer and a smoke alarm.

Somehow the smoke alarm usually manages to beat the cooking timer.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

I dont have that option.

I got rid of the smoke alarm for going off every time I switched my soldering iron on