this morning #1326.

this morning, the satisfying smell of bacon turned to the scent of meat charring before a flicker quickly leapt from the pan & crawled up the kitchen wall, setting the curtains ablaze. before we knew it, the whole damn room started going up in flames. my wife ran outside. grabbed the garden hose. dragged it all the way through the house & tried to put the fire out herself. while she sprayed sheets of water back & forth and cursed our poor fortune, i stood completely frozen in disbelief at what i was seeing, stuck in a flashback to new year’s eve when, as a prank, i emptied our extinguisher onto a pal. i do wish that i'd replaced it like the wife had asked. now it’s up to her to save our ass.