Fire and Bryanne have a long and....torrid history.
Obviously, we are not talking about the fire of love. This is Bryanne , after all.
This relationship is just with regular fire. You know, the kind that ruins your favorite cotton shirt? Yeah, me either, but poor Bryanne sure does.
On a rainy Saturday night, (oh, the irony!) Bryanne was gettin fancy for the barn dance-y.
(Her words, not mine)
Attempting to 'cowgirl up', she put on a t-shirt and her favorite western style button up shirt, which was left unbuttoned and hanging to the side.
Soon, Bryanne's friend would be there to pick her up, and she had yet to eat, so she grabbed a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup, poured it into a small pan to heat it up.
It began to boil over, so Bryanne quickly removed it from the red hot burner, to a burner in the back, in the process touching her loose cotton shirt to the hot burner in the front.
It took a few seconds for Bryanne to notice out of the corner of her eye, that a steady stream of smoke was coming from her left side. She looks down. Her shirt is on fire. Bryanne proceeds to scream her lungs out. There was no stopping, dropping or rolling like everyone teaches you since kindergarten.
There was only screaming.
Bryanne's family is minding their own business in the living room when they hear her screaming in short bursts of panic. They quickly come to her aid. Here is a diagram of the scene as Bryanne described it:
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| *May not be to scale |
Bryanne's mom and sister end up outside the kitchen behind the bar. Her mom reaches over to grab the sink sprayer....only to find that the water pressure sucks, so its just continues to spray onto the floor a few feet away from the hysterical ball of flames. Her sister is standing beside her mom, doing her best 'Home-Alone-Hands-On-Face' Scream. Totally helpful.
The only rational one in the vicinity is Bryanne's dad, who quickly rips the shirt off and begins to hit it against the trash can (the little square next to him) managing to put out the fire. Needless to say the shirt was ruined, as well as what little confidence there was in her abilities in the kitchen.
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| Bryanne agreed to share this horrifying picture, as long as we disguised her face.... |
That poor Bryanne, she never had a chance....
Stayed tuned for more fire adventures in Part II of Bryanne: The Unintentional Arsonist!