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March 28, 2005
My Brother Is On Fire
I was awoken this morning by my mother telling me about triv's fabulous exploding laptop. She did not use those extact words. I believe I went back to sleep and dreamt of jelly beans and bathroom fixtures.
My senior year of college, I lived in a very old dorm. We had fire alarms constantly, usually at three in the morning. Now, they had banned candles, christmas lights and coffee makers, but they didn't ban smoking in this old dorm.
One morning near Christmas, the girl kitty-corner from me, Erin Hoover, was smoking in her room and had to leave to go to class. The wind came from her window and blew the embers of her cigarette onto the bed. It quickly spread.
Now, I was in the room kitty-corner, making coffee in my illegal coffee maker and trying to print out my conference paper about globalization and the media. I smelled burnt toast. The fire alarm went off and because we had had so many drills, I took my time. Carefully put on my shoes, my coat... until I opened the hall door and saw smoke everywhere. Then I yelled for my suitemate, who, like me, had assumed it was nothing.
Suitmate, Leila, her guest who had been in the shower, me and a bunch of other Dudley Lawrence denzians watched as smoke started to slowly pour from our opened windows. I wondered if I remembered to turn the coffee maker off. I was late for my final exam in poli sci but (and this is one of the beauties of attending a small college) Ray, my prof, walked by right as smoke started to really come out the windows.
"I won't be on time for the final, Ray." I said.
He agreed.
None of my stuff was actually on fire. Just smoke damage that I never got out of that iMac or television set. And you couldn't drink the coffee.
Mac products aflambe, anyone?
Posted by emily at March 28, 2005 2:20 PM
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Posted by: Gadgets at October 31, 2011 3:26 AM
Not to change the focus, but due to cost of green coffee beans crashing. You would assume sales of coffee makers and espresso machines to be a popular gift item for the Holidays this winter. Just Sayin...
Posted by: Hamilton at November 1, 2011 11:03 PM