# Nearly just killed myself. FIRE.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110 "2003-10-28T22:11:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/1 "2003-10-28T22:11:01Z")
Shit.
Working on my addition, I had a rag in my left rear pocket.
Got too close to a propane heater.
Enipla says to himself. Wow. That thing really puts out some heat.
I turned around to look at the heater and realized that the heat is coming from behind. So is the smoke.
FIRE! ENIPLA IS ON FIRE. I pulled the rag out before it got to me and did a dance on it.
Damn, damn. That was a bit close. Burnt my thumb a little.
I’m a very cautious person. I guess, not cautious enough.
I think I will keep the rag as a reminder.
Wow.
Man…. Careful as you can be and stuff still sneaks up on you. NEVER FORGET THAT.
:sigh:
Back to work.
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/2 "2003-10-28T22:41:47Z")
You know, it just burns my ass when stuff like that happens. 🙂
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/3 "2003-10-28T23:33:52Z")
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> You know, it just burns my ass when stuff like that happens.
Me too.
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.
Live and learn.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/4 "2003-10-28T23:38:07Z")
welding class, ren-no, something is telling you: “put down the tools, step away from the machines. pick up knitting needles.”
i’m glad you are ok. fire moves really fast and ruthlessly.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/5 "2003-10-29T00:44:28Z")
**rocking chair**
Not quite ready for the rocking chair yet. 😃
Bought a ‘blow nozzle’ for my compressor the other day. I told my wife “This will be great for dusting”.
I’m turnng into Tim Allen.
Not really. I believe in buying the right tools for the job. And hireing someone when **I’m** not the right tool for the job.
But really, the dusting thing will be **great** for… um lots of stuff. yea… thats it.
NOT ON FIRE ummm. At the moment.
enipla (43 years old, still have all my fingers and toes).
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/6 "2003-10-29T03:29:58Z")
**Billdo** took my line!
Glad you’re okay.
Fashion note to **enipla** : Hot pants are out.
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/7 "2003-10-29T17:57:15Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/8 "2003-10-29T18:16:19Z")
You do realize what the doctor would have suspected you were doing?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/9 "2003-10-29T19:26:19Z")
“When you’re on fire, people will get out of your way.”
– Richard Pryor
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/10 "2003-10-29T22:27:59Z")
Let’s go over this again…
Beer Good. Fire BAD. Tree Pretty.
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/11 "2003-10-30T03:16:41Z")
Take it from someone who just found out…
Fortune Favors Fools.
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-just-killed-myself-fire/210110/12 "2003-10-31T02:48:36Z")
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. 🙂