Dragon's Musings

Happy Birthday: Here's the Fire Department!
You hear about it in cards and jokes, but it did actually just happen. It was a coworker's 40th Birthday party (cake cutting at 9:40), so we all file up, and they light the 40 candles, and she goes to blow them out.
And you see the cloud of smoke rising.

Except, they're also trick-candles, so they keep smoking and keep relighting, so she blows them out again.

And you see the cloud of smoke thickening.

"Watch, the smoke alarm is going to go off," said my grand-boss.

WAH WAH WAH... WAH WAH WAH... WAH WAH WAH...

Someone calls to say it was just candles on a cake. The response was that we had to evacuate anyway. So we do. We sit outside waiting for the fire trucks to come (a big ladder truck, a smaller ladder/pumper, and two pain vehicles), and we watch the fire fighters all dressed up in their turnouts, go in the building because they have to. And then they come out after a few minutes with grins on their faces. "Who's this _____ person?" the chief asks, and we all point to her. "Well, happy birthday," he says.

So it does happen. Birthday cakes with too many candles can summon the Fire Department!

Comments:

Waaaay behind, but ITA about the whole gay marriage amendment. Social progress (and rights) in America would be going back centuries if that gets passed. And here I thought that by banning slavery, we would have to deal with discrimination on such a national level again. Silly me! (=rolls eyes=) And this, ladies and gents, is why Bush needs to *not* be reelected. The only thing I want him coordinating anymore is the janitorial staff on my campus ... and maybe not even that! (I have enough gay friends around here, including the very ... 'Out' ... Student Body President)

And I was laughing about the whole fire department story. Tee hee. I'm sure your friend was muy embarassed. :-)

On a completely different note, any progress on Grimalkin recently? ;-) Just teasing, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Oh, and I need to email you about DT yet sometime ...... So look for that sometime within the next hundred days or so.

=waves=

# posted by Lizzy : 23:52