Monday, June 19, 2006
Holy Smokes!

This morning I cracked an egg into the metal ring at the bottom of the frying pan. To my surprise there were two yolks. I've never cracked a twin yolk egg before. Leaving my breakfast to cook, I went to the computer to find some folklore about what a twin yolked egg might mean. I was hoping it would be good luck. Unfortunately I didn't find anything useful.

I returned back upstairs to check on my eggs and tomatoes, and discovered the kitchen and family room filled with a huge cloud of thick, white smoke. I sprinted madly to the stove. Nothing was burning in the pan. Instead it was our recently defective toaster; my toast had failed to pop up and was on fire.

"Oh no! My toast is on fire! On fire!" I exclaimed aloud, even though I was the only person home. I frantically popped the toaster manually, grabbed the two pieces of flaming bread with my bare hands, and ran, holding them in front of me, to the sink. I dumped them in there, and doused them with water.

The kitchen was now completely filled with smoke. It was actually hard to breathe. I opened some windows, held a tea towel over my mouth and nose to breathe through, and continued to cook my breakfast. I was hungry damnit! It took a good ten minutes for the smoke to dissipate enough for me to take the tea towel away, and by that stage my two egg and tomato non-mc-McMuffins were ready.

I thought I had better leave a note on the table, just in case someone came home and thought that the house had been on fire. I found an old envelope and a pen that hardly worked.

The house was not on fire. My toast didn't pop up and it burnt.

Now I am out of the house, but it seems the smell of smoke has come with me. On the train, a boy sitting near me even said to his Dad "when you were eating that pear before, I turned around this way and it smelled like pasta sauce". I'm pretty sure the pasta sauce smell was me.

And of course, I have a date later on tonight.

If you were going on a date with me which would you find crazier - greeting you
carrying cones of yarn, or greeting you carrying the very strong smell of charcoaled toast?


I almost forgot! The delectable Hooch has a new blog. It's called the Humour Archive, and it's to help her get moving on her thesis. She's a very smart cookie who's just nuts about linguistics. Go and make some comments, and get her inspired to write!

posted by Erica 6/19/2006 12:39:00 PM
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