car on fire
Jul. 10th, 2003 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI tell ya-this is no way to start your morning, for any of you considering the merits of a flaming car in lieu (am I spelling that correctly?) of caffeine.
here's the story in full:
I didn't go to sleep last night, so I prepped the coffee and then made breakfast for my sister, who has to get up way to fuckin' early to babysit the munchkins from hell mon-fri. I digress - we had this rather nasty storm last night, so my dad had moved are old crap car to the street (he's always working on it. it'll function for a week, then stop again) so he could put the good car in the garage.
my mom went to move the crap car back into the driveway this morning. She started it, didn't work. she got out to see if my dad had removed or disconnected something (which, apparently, he has a tendency to do. why? I don't know. I'm just a girl, so my dad doesn't see fit to explain these things to me). she says before she could even get around to the hood, smoke started coming out. She was thinking, "okay, it's hot." only it didn't stop, it got worse.
she walks into the house, and asks "where's the phone? The cars on fire." now, I haven't slept, and my younger sister has just woken up-and it's only about 6:30 am at this time. we kinda look at my mom, then look at each thinking "Zzz...fuck wha???...zz"
we stumble outside to see, thinking "oh, it's probably just small and trivial" no, no. the front was all smoke and orange, and there were a couple of not so small bangs before the hood was just orange. if the damned fire department had been any slower (and they weren't in any hurry coming down the street, let me assure you) there would have been a nice little explosion to greet the neighbors.
damned funny stuff. but no way to start your thursday.
here's the story in full:
I didn't go to sleep last night, so I prepped the coffee and then made breakfast for my sister, who has to get up way to fuckin' early to babysit the munchkins from hell mon-fri. I digress - we had this rather nasty storm last night, so my dad had moved are old crap car to the street (he's always working on it. it'll function for a week, then stop again) so he could put the good car in the garage.
my mom went to move the crap car back into the driveway this morning. She started it, didn't work. she got out to see if my dad had removed or disconnected something (which, apparently, he has a tendency to do. why? I don't know. I'm just a girl, so my dad doesn't see fit to explain these things to me). she says before she could even get around to the hood, smoke started coming out. She was thinking, "okay, it's hot." only it didn't stop, it got worse.
she walks into the house, and asks "where's the phone? The cars on fire." now, I haven't slept, and my younger sister has just woken up-and it's only about 6:30 am at this time. we kinda look at my mom, then look at each thinking "Zzz...fuck wha???...zz"
we stumble outside to see, thinking "oh, it's probably just small and trivial" no, no. the front was all smoke and orange, and there were a couple of not so small bangs before the hood was just orange. if the damned fire department had been any slower (and they weren't in any hurry coming down the street, let me assure you) there would have been a nice little explosion to greet the neighbors.
damned funny stuff. but no way to start your thursday.
Re: Get some sleep ho-natch
Date: 2003-07-10 11:16 pm (UTC)did she actually do it?