Burning Down The House
Once again I smelled smoke when I got out of bed. And once again, someone almost burned the apartment building to the ground; this time we were even closer than the last time. Yesterday night, one of the girls I live with and her boyfriend decided to turn on an electric heater before they went to bed - to get some heat in the bedroom. Not a very bad idea, except for two things:
- The heater was of the type where you can see the heating elements. I’m not exactly sure what it’s called in English, but “death trap” is probably a good description.
- The heater was located a little to close to the bed.
During the night one of their bed sheets fell out of the bed and ended up on the top of the heater. Heater plus bed sheet on top equals smoke and stuff. Lucky, they woke up before it was to late and everything went all right. This time.
So now there have been two unsuccessful attempts on setting the apartment on fire in the last two weeks.
Stop that!
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eOnly amateurs uses electricity to get some heat in the bedroom:-)
KristofferWe actually had a fire alarm here as well, some girl in the flat next to ours had started cooking, and then decided to go to sleep in her room. It’s the third time in a row someone from that flat does this. It gets very old very fast, doesn’t it?
Kristoffer: Since you moved to the UK you’ve learned a lot of fancy English phrases. What the hell do you mean?
e: I’ll tell them.
KristofferWhat I meant was, if you zing the clock without loosin the heat, you’ll be leaping the hedge in no time.
Do I need to expatiate on that?
My hero!
