Ok, this story is a bit embarrassing. One evening this past summer, when we were living with our friends, we had the house to ourselves, while our friends attended an evening baseball game.
We decided to do something simple for supper. We cooked up some frozen pizzas using this countertop pizza maker they had. We also were mesmerized by this NAT Geo show featuring a very rare and bizarre disease that caused growths all over this guys face. It was disturbing and fascinating at the same time. Suddenly, smoke alarms went off in the house. The pizza was flaming and the kitchen was filled with smoke. We grabbed the pizza maker and headed out the patio door with it. Apparently I hadn’t set it up correctly and the pizza was not able to turn under the heating element. Therefore a triangular section of pizza was flaming, while the remainder was still frozen. We opened every conceivable door and window that we could. We searched the house for fans and set them up in front of open doorways. After about an hour the smoke was no longer visible . . .but you know the smell was still there. And luckily the bugs and mosquitoes didn’t seem to invade the house.
Man did we feel like idiots when our friends arrived home! It’s bad enough that we lost our house to a fire, but we certainly didn’t want to endanger them by living there. Thankfully they took it in stride and with humor. Talk about adrenaline rush/panic attack hearing smoke alarms and seeing flames and smoke.
We decided to do something simple for supper. We cooked up some frozen pizzas using this countertop pizza maker they had. We also were mesmerized by this NAT Geo show featuring a very rare and bizarre disease that caused growths all over this guys face. It was disturbing and fascinating at the same time. Suddenly, smoke alarms went off in the house. The pizza was flaming and the kitchen was filled with smoke. We grabbed the pizza maker and headed out the patio door with it. Apparently I hadn’t set it up correctly and the pizza was not able to turn under the heating element. Therefore a triangular section of pizza was flaming, while the remainder was still frozen. We opened every conceivable door and window that we could. We searched the house for fans and set them up in front of open doorways. After about an hour the smoke was no longer visible . . .but you know the smell was still there. And luckily the bugs and mosquitoes didn’t seem to invade the house.
Man did we feel like idiots when our friends arrived home! It’s bad enough that we lost our house to a fire, but we certainly didn’t want to endanger them by living there. Thankfully they took it in stride and with humor. Talk about adrenaline rush/panic attack hearing smoke alarms and seeing flames and smoke.
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