Could have been real bad though. Another 10 seconds or so and I think I would be in the hospital. If I could not get it put out and did not burn down the house (and me) in the process.
I’ve Never been on fire before.
Nope, that’s not true. I started my pants on fire in welding class in high school (22 yrs. ago or so). Stuck my leg in a 5 gallon cooling bucket to put it out.
Fire gets your attention real, real fast. Especially when you are the one that’s burning.
Gonna check that off as something I don’t want to do again.
I feel like I just used up one of my “You where lucky” coupons.
And I picked up a “don’t do that again you idiot” demerit.
Used up the lucky coupons?
I know how that feels. When I was 20 or so, in my dorm room, I placed a metal candleholder with a long new candle in it on the central heating. For some reason, I dozed off a little. I woke up to see the candle had melted, had bent and was only an inch away from setting fire to a curtain.
Candles just lost their appeal as moodmakers for me after that.
All I could think of while reading the OP was the old Tom and Jerry cartoons (and Daffy Duck, too, now that I think about it) where their tails catch on fire, and they always reacted pretty much the same way you did.
