Jun 24 2008
How to burn down your friend’s apartment
My friend Allyson lives in Burbank, she’s an actress (of course.) She also is quite a tea lover. Usually when I visit she makes at least two pots of two different kinds of tea. You might be thinking, “Hey, is this going to be a blog about tea? Can I just skip to the flammables?” Well, the tea is important, so you must bear with me. While tea is not in itself flammable, tea is the culprit in this situation. Back to the story.
Allyson had some minor surgery on her leg so I was visiting her to keep her company. Allyson, if you are reading this, stop picking at the bandage. Ahem. So the first pot of tea she made was this barley tea (which, I think I bought her) and I like barley tea, but she added coconut oil to it. (It’s some kind of health thing.) When she finished that I said, “Can I make more tea?” She said yes, but:
“Don’t use the ceramic pot, it isn’t meant to go on the stove. Use the metal one.”
Now, I dare say you would have thought what I thought, which was: use the metal pot on the stove. So, I filled it up with water, turned on the stove, put it on, and left. Unfortunately, this was some special fancy type of metal pot: it was electric.
A few minutes later I smelled something akin to burning plastic. No wait, it was burning plastic. See, there’s some kind of plastic thingy on the bottom of these electric kettles that, well, boy it sure burns nice! I went into the kitchen to find quite the conflagration. I stood there staring at it for, I’d say, five seconds. I was thinking, “Why is this metal tea pot on fire? It should not be on fire. It’s supposed to be there on the stove, boiling the water!”
Then I decided to do… something. I turned off the gas. Still on fire. I took a metal spoon and moved the pot over to a back burner. The front burner stayed on fire. All of the plastic had melted into a flaming morass of goo. I thought, “Well, maybe it will burn itself out.” Then I thought, “Maybe not.” So I called out to my friend and her roommate, who will be forever known as “that Vietnamese boy.”
“Do you guys have a fire extinguisher?”
“What?” <- Allyson, in disbelief
“There is no time for “what?”, I need to know now.“
So, Allyson runs into the kitchen, puts her hands over her face and proceeds to freak out saying, “Oh my God, OH MY GOD!” However, super Vietnamese boy (sorry Q, I can’t help it) finds a fire extinguisher and lets it rip! And then he keeps letting it rip.
“Whoa! Okay! It’s out man! Stop!”
Turns out Allyson didn’t like that kettle that much anyway and she got a cute little red one she had spied out at Target.
Picture of the Day
How to recognize the difference between an electric tea pot, and a regular one.
Steve i can honestly say i LOLed as i read this one. ^_^ Love the picture of the day too.
Imma gonna try to think up some good questions to send it now.
“Send in,” not “send it.” Gosh i’m full of typos today.
oh noes, I can see how you made the mistake tho. I will admit to ‘pulling a Cali’ when I first read about it hahahaha
Hey, Steve. My in-laws have that pot. About the coaster: didn’t you see the big long black power cord coming out of it? Or did you think the coaster had a tail. Perhaps you thought it a pet coaster?
Zach
Okay. It didn’t like my curse word. Anyway, I should have put quotes around the word “coaster”, like that. At any rate, I shall now and forevermore refer to the base of the pot at my in-laws as the coaster, or any heating pad for that matter, even the ones you use when you are sick.
You thinking that the black pad was a coaster is like the funniest thing I have heard since, I dunno, the days of Empire, I guess. I will be laughing all day. You are awesome, Steve.
Admit it, you did it on purpose so you can blog about it. Tsk, tsk…
Allyson is very neat and organized, the wire coming out of the um, coaster, was pointed straight toward the wall and I didn’t see it at that angle.
Plus we were talking while I was doing it so I was distracted.
I did NOT put coconut oil in the tea! :P I put dried SHREDDED coconut in the infuser for flavoring. Hmph. ;)
I’m still smirking. Welcome to the modern age, Steve, where people actually have electric kitchen appliances. *Mock*
Tea noobs. Leave the tea making to the professionals like me and Allyson.
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