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Hot Time on the Town

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

While I do love the views and gen­eral atmos­phere of the office we moved into, the room gets really bleep­ing cold. Cold enough that some days, such as today, my hands are halfway numb by the time I leave at the end of the day. So tonight when I got home, I grabbed a book, started our gas stove heat­ing up the tea ket­tle and leaned up against the stove to read. My wife who was on the phone with one of the plumbers¹ we’ve been talk­ing to and moved me away from the stove because she thought I was stand­ing too close.

Me being cold and a touch grouchy about being cold, told her I was doing it delib­er­ately and told her to go back to her phone con­ver­sa­tion.  I was just finally start­ing to feel warm again when she came back into the kitchen. Then she asked the plumber to hold on a sec­ond because her hus­band was on fire.

Yes, she said on fire. Woohoo! I’m sexy.… Wait, that was panic in her voice… I reached behind myself to feel at my shirt² and what do you know there was FIRE. For­tu­nately my wife grabbed the sprayer from the sink and hosed me down. I didn’t get hurt at all, if you exclude my pride³ and what feels like a sun­burn on a sin­gle fin­ger­tip. Though the shirt I had been wear­ing was ruined.

The really sad part? It was only about two sec­onds before she sprayed me down that I was finally feel­ing warm. *sigh*

¹ Yes the faucet our bleep­ing, down­stairs bath­tub is still bro­ken.
² I agree in hind­sight that was stu­pid, but my brain was hav­ing trou­ble pro­cess­ing the infor­ma­tion her voice imparted on my ears.
³ Which suf­fered greatly from the experience.

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