[Ag-eq] Fw: Beware of what you wish for because ...

[Michelle Creedy]

Hi Jewel, wow, that is certainly scary! I'm so glad that you are ok. Gosh,
what a story!

Michelle


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From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via Ag-eq
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 4:22 PM
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Cc: Jewel; Deslie; kmooney at ihug.co.nz; Sally Coutts
Subject: [Ag-eq] Fw: Beware of what you wish for because ...

  I will tell you of my adventure of last night.
I was looking for a knife that I had just put down, and could I find it
where any sane person would have put it?  Of course not, and then I went to
open a cupboard in the scullery and it was jammed.
In a blind rage:  I shouted that I hated the bloody house and was going to
burn it to the ground!
I am sure that you are familiar with the proverb:  "Beware of what you wish
for because it might happen!"
Well!  having got over my temper tantrum, as it was a slightly nippy night,
I switched on the fan heater.
Now the last time I had switched it on, it sounded as though the was a piece
of paper in there being flipped around by the fan and this gave me the
thought that it, the heater, was on its last legs.
Back to last night, I switched the heater on, it started and then stopped
though I could feel a little heat on the front grill.
It is on the floor, just beside my chair.
I flicked the heater back on and started to eat my dinner, and then,
suddenly, I felt a lot of heat coming from the heater.
Putting my dinner down, I put my hand on the heater, and what did I find?
it was on fire!
The plastic was melting, but, fortunately, not all of it was, at that
precise moment, so I grabbed it and whisked it into the scullery and thence
to the sink and turned the taps on it.
Before I throw it out, I will ask Cody to take a photo of it and will send
it, the pic, not the heater to you and someone may be able to describe to
you just how close the burning down of the house was, and I was bloody lucky
to have been able to grab it in a place that wasn't on fire. 
Believe me!  being covered in burning plastic is not an experience you would
want to go through twice.  All I got was a tiny dot of plastic on one
finger.
I opened the windows to get rid of some of the fumes, and went to bed, but I
had only been there a short while when I thought that the smell was getting
stronger:  had I missed some of the burning plastic?  I ran my hands over
the carpet where the heater had stood and, no!  there was nothing that gave
me concern.  However, going a little to the right, I came across:  well I
don't know what it
was:  a tiny fragile coil-like thing that buzzed/vibrated/quivered  in my
hand!  Was it a roasted moth or insect of some kind?  I have no idea!
Well!  the bloody house wasn't burned to the ground this time:  who knows
what will happen next time!  However, I will try to repress my temper
tantrums and threaten to burn it down!  Do you think that the
buzzing/vibrating/quivering thing that I picked up was Fred, my house ghost
who had taken me at my word and, was going to save me the trouble of
striking the fateful match?
So, there we are!  "beware of what you wish for because that may be what you
get!"


         Jewel 


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