There was this one time that we ALMOST got caught lighting fires. My friends lived in Saddle River (anyone know where that is?) home of many rich people, including Richard Nixon and who knows who else. They lived on two acres, with horses, a forest and a river at the back of the property. (Yeah, the Saddle River). So we used to dig a hole by the river, get some gasoline, spray deoderant, cologne (brut), old rags, wood, and make huge fires. (Why, I dont know.)
So one time their mom comes down and one of my friends, who was the lookout, came RUNNING down the hill to us. "Mom's coming!!" he's yelling. The fire was easily 6 feet high. So what do you do? We start shoveling and kicking dirt on the hole. In less that a minute, the ground is level, the hole is gone, and we think we're safe. Except when she gets to us, the ground is SMOKING. Literally, smoke is pouring out of the ground. So we kind of stood on top of it. And we got away. Scott-free. Except we smelled like smoke. hahha.
YAY!!! New story...wow you're a pyro, LOL go figure.
I almost burnt my deck down once. I was 'fixing' a candle..really just playing with the wax and all. I ran upstairs to pee and looked out the window to find the whole candle and cermanic holder in flames ontop of the deck railing. I ran down stairs and it took me several times running between the kitchen and the deck pouring water on the candle to get it to go out.
Wow glad that you & yours were not collectively burnt to a crisp.
jose's mom has these amazing candles. so while one was lit the other day i was trying to imprint my ring on the inside soft wax. i got it but while trying to remove it it jumped into the fire and started to smoke amd i almost ruined her $170 candles.
haha oh man, i love fire. one time me and bill decided to make a movie-"pyromaniacs from mars". we build whole cardboard cities and doused them with hexane (highly flammable)and put paper cups of hexane in the hollow buildings w/ a string for a wick b/c we were going to have the 'aliens' blow up the cities. we had dinosaurs for the aliens. we got bored making the movie pretty quickly and just set everything on fire instead. burn baby burn.