I post for your reference a recipe for a Fire-Brigade visit to YOUR HOUSE!
Ingredients:
Two raw eggs
One saucepan
Water
Stove top
Hotplate ON (High)
A phone call from DH to come pick him up from the train station
Getting side-tracked and doing a few jobs on the way home from the station...
Method?
Place eggs in saucepan, cover with cold water, place on stove-top and turn hotplate onto high.
Chop up all other vegetables needed for chicken caesar salad.
DH phones to say he needs to get picked up.
You walk out the door without turning off the stove.
Leave the front door unlocked but closed.
Run errands that take 30 minutes to complete
Come home (remembering 5 minutes before you get home that you still have eggs boiling on the stove!)
Find fellow tenants from the unit block outdoors scanning the road nervously.
Hear sirens in the distance
Have said tenants ask you if you live in Number 5 and then proceed to tell you after you nod that your house has a LOT of smoke in it...
The TWO firetrucks pull up and the men charge inside. Inspect the damage which is minimal as only the pot, eggs and plastic container beside the stove have suffered any long term damage.
They give you a bit of a talking to about leaving the stove on when out, leaving cookbooks on top of hotplates and help you put on a fan to blow the smoke out of the unit.
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There you go. The perfect 'recipe' to get 6 hunky men in uniform to visit your home. :)
