Holla!!
Ok, so I do not think that I have mentioned it yet, and maybe you have figured this out from previous blogs, but I do not really have any common sense. I can say that I am a intelligent student, but I do not always appear to have brains because of some of the things I say. It is the little things that most people can just figure out because of common sense I can not. As an example to explain my stupidity sometimes I can use the example of the stove...which I BLEW UP todayyy!
So I come home from work and one of my roommates approached me and was saying how the stove was not working. He said that it has blown a fuse yesterday and whenever he tries to turn it on, the stove makes a loud popping noise and then nothing happens. I was honestly not that concerned about it because it was an electric stove. So this told me, that no matter what happened, it could not explode or anything because there was actually no gas. So when Logan said to pull the switch, I was hesitant and then remembered that nothing would happen. So I pulled the switch and there was a loud popping smell, but nothing else other than that besides this bad stench. So once I saw Nick some into the apartment on the phone, an idea popped into my head.
He was on the phone and I thought about how much fun it would be to pull the switch and really freak him out since he had no idea something was wrong with the stove. So I told him to look at the stove and I pulled the switch. This time, there was no pop, there was an explosion!!! Now it was not loud or big but the stove made some noise, we saw some flames out of the back, and then we saw the smoke come out of the back of it! It was so freaky to watch and let me tell you that I got the reaction out of Nick that I wanted. He actually yelled a little and was swearing out of the fear of the explosion. It was beautiful, but then again, I have NO COMMON SENSE!!!
At the time it did not even hit me that something must worse could have happened by me pulling the switch again. I should have figured that by pulling the switch a bunch of times nothing else would happen besides a loud pop, but lets be serious here! Eventually something bad was going to happen and now I have killed the stove. Then the apartment smelled terrible. So I went around the apartment and was spraying febreze all over the place. I was actually kind of hopping around the apartment like a Febreze fairy if you will, but it was pretty funny regardless. We were even trying to make jokes about how Gary and I could not go to class from the emotional stress of the explosion. Or, I could just start screaming in the middle of class and say the trauma of the explosion was affecting me, although that would be a lie.
The funniest part of the whole experience was that Gary was not here. So we decided to start calling him and scaring him. We were saying how the stove exploded, the alarm in the building went off, and we were running around trying to save our stuff by throwing everything out of the windows. This was funny because he was in an interview with someone and actually started to freak out a little. So he came back within 15 minutes and was looking around to see what he could do, to find out that nothing was really that wrong. So luckily for tonight we are going to get the pizza I have been wanting from Pizza Hut. It is the kind that is all cut up so you can dip it into the different sauces that they give you. Hells yeah baby!
So I guess there are a couple of things we can learn from this event. If you are going to be left alone with a stove, lets use some common sense and not try and blow up the apartment. Yes, this was only the stove but imagine the possibilities of what could have happened! Also, if you do end up destroying your stove I guess you technically could finally get the pizza that you have been dying to try. But by blowing up the stove? That is not the right way of getting that pizza, just hound your roommates until they want to get it. Also, febreze can basically save your life, stench wise. So make sure you always have some in the house!
Joshua
What you neglected to add Josh is that Nick was on the phone with me and I was only getting one side of the conversation (the majority of which is much too explicit to repeat) and I thought something horrible had happened to one of you. Reading your blog today made me laugh though, I can see Nick's face and have seen that look MANY times before.
Thanks for the the visual of the "Febreze Fairy" .....maybe a new marketing idea for the company?
Take care and happy cooking,
Jodie
Posted by: Jodie | October 30, 2007 at 12:24 PM