TE999
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* this is my own humor, from recent happenings in my life...
Ten things you (can) learn from a chimney fire...
1. When you walk into your little girls closet and see bright orange, gently flaming coals piled up threatening to spill out the access door of the chimney, everything you have learned about staying calm, collected and focused in a "situation" kinda goes all smushy and leaks (hopefully invisibly)out your gaping mouth...
2. Screaming "ANSWER THE PHONE! ANSWER THE PHONE!" into a cell phone: (a) doesnt make the person your calling answer faster (or at all), and (b) seems to upset the peoplearound you.-especially children.
3. Every one that comes to the scene will ask you the same thing,..."Hey, How's it going?"
4. After about the third person, you get sick of answering that question and lose all civility towards it.
5. When you say "chimney fire" and "they" arrive and there are not flames shooting out of every available exit point in the building, every man there will think you are a woman who is just, "losing it"....and give you "the look."
6. This will tick you off so much you actually DO, "lose it."
7. Firemen in full gear can't outrun a ticked off woman who has "lost it;" -must be the boots.
8. Your teenage son will: (a) tell you that you are losing it, (b) call all his freinds and tell THEM, you are losing it, (c) recount, numerous times throughout the rest of the day, how you lost it, AND what you looked and sounded like while you "lost it" ...and (d) never, ever, let you live it down.
9. You will remind him that it would be a fairly simple task to "make another one that looks just like him."
10. Big, Burly firemen in full gear, crouching in your little girls hot pink closet, next to a large doll house, cloistered about with frilly dresses, dollies, and girl stuff, will cause a very strong and odd urge in you to offer him a cup of tea....![]()
Yeesh! No wonder Santa uses the front door.
